Elysian Shadows

MMoebiusX wrote:Thanks, who is in charge of art direction?

Mitchell (Sofa King) for characters and Patrick (Imrooniel) for tiles/terrain.

This topic is poorly named. I almost didn't check it out, because I have never used a KOS sprite... We wrote our own driver for this, because KOS originally didn't support them. I know KOS 2.0.0 supports this, but I have no idea how to use it. I'm just wondering, what is the difference between using...

MarauderIIC wrote:I saw the subject and thought you were going to say that you sold your dreamcast.

I would rather die... and I have 3 more...

dandymcgee wrote:I'm not at all worried about the academic portion of graduate school.. it's the financial part that I simply cannot handle right now. I'd love to go back if I could find someone willing to pay for it haha.

I'm making my company pay for every penny. :D

and signed up for graduate classes. Spent 2 years licking my wounds from undergraduate school, promising myself I would never take another class again... But I think I'm ready to return to the academic fight once more. Time for a fucking masters degree. I know I will be hating myself in a few months...

I discussed a pretty useful alternative to the Singleton design pattern that we use here: http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=7817&p=82674&hilit=singleton#p82674 Shit dude I just went back and read this thread one more time and I just got your point. That's pretty slic...

jaybee wrote:Sometimes I've wondered if I should just go about my business coding like a dumbass if for no other reason than to fall flat on my face and understand how my implementation fails.

Hey, it worked for me.

I know there is a good reason for not using singletons and globally available objects but I am just missing it. I would imagine understanding that peice of the puzzle is the key for me to start designing better code. Can you point me in the direction of some design patterns that would be beneficial...

Aaaaah, I gotcha. Nice!

Thought of another question. Is only one of your layers elevatable? If they are both elevatable, does one always have to be above the other one, or can layer 1 technically be levated above layer 2?

It should ALWAYS be called. You sure there isn't some conditional logic in there that only causes it to hang sometimes? Try a breakpoint/printf/cout, and you should find the destructor being invoked consistently.

How does the depth slider work? Do you have to make a selection first, and it is applied to the tile(s) within the selection?

Aaaaaaah... Well fuck, that would work.

That is absolutely fucking bizarre... I mean, obviously any JIT language has to be pulling some behind-the-scenes bullshit to even implement the concept of a "null reference" (a reference is implemented as an autodereferenced pointer, so a "NULL" reference is technically impossib...

Looks awesome, man! I'm at home with just Kubuntu and a Macbook Pro, but I'll check it out as soon as I get to a Windows machine.

Hey buddy! Sorry for not responding earlier, I kind of got depressed for awhile and disappeared from these boards. Wow. Glad you shared that wisdom with the rest of us... Especially now that we're working on an iOS build of ES. I've never really worked with the app store before, so that insight is v...