New Gyromite

[Falco Girgis]

^
I completely concur with that idea. You're going to make it every bit and more badass than the original was.

[cypher1554R]

Thumbs up for this project.

[OrinCreed]

Still lurking and eagerly awaiting new info.

[MadPumpkin]

Still lurking and eagerly awaiting new info.

thanks man i was waiting for someone to bump it lol

[Falco Girgis]

Take your time, JS Lemming. Thanks to MDK being a lazy ass, I won't be able to give you the recognition that you deserve with our fancy news system if you update yet.

[JS Lemming]

Now I can mask my laziness with MDK's laziness.

[MarauderIIC]

Or maybe you could write something up so that we can start a queue so we can be like, "M_D_K!! PEOPLE ARE READY TO USE THIS WHERE IS IT"

[JS Lemming]

M_D_K, finish it or I'll blow up the forums!

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[M_D_K]

I don't negotiate with E-Terrorists

And just so everyone knows...
I'm working on it

I'm also starting to understand exactly what Falco deals with when he has over 1500 people bitch at him(it's not very pleasant)

[JS Lemming]

Don't sweat it. I'm not really in a hurry to update.

EDIT: Actually, I have a new video uploaded but I have it set to private for now.

[Falco Girgis]

Don't sweat it. I'm not really in a hurry to update.

EDIT: Actually, I have a new video uploaded but I have it set to private for now.

Well, everything is set for the unveiling.

[JS Lemming]

Done. I guess this thread will remain for people to bitch at me to get to work.

[Falco Girgis]

Yeah. Project threads are for general discussion. News threads are for large updates/news.

[eatcomics]

Yeah. Project threads are for general discussion. News threads are for large updates/news.

And this thread is for us to tell JSL that he needs to get his ass moving!!!!!!

[JS Lemming]

As I think I've mentioned before, I've been storing stage data as ascii in a .gyro file like:

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==............*.......|||.....v.v......................."....."....v."......."......
."*H.**.|.*||.|.*.....|||.....v.v........v...v...v......".vvv."....v."......."......
.===vvvv|B#||.|..Rhhh.|v......v.v........v...v...v......".vvv."....v."..............
."..Rvvv|v*|*.|*****..|v......B.R........R...B...R......"=BRB="....v.=========......
."...Rvv|v.|..|*****.|vv..hhhR...Bhhh........*.....................R="..."..........
."....Rv|vR=R=R=R==*.|vB....*..|..*......hhB...Bhh....|....*....|........Bhhhhhh....
.".....R|#v"v"v.v..*.|v...hhhB.|.Rhhh.......|.........|===RBR===|...................
."*.|*|||.v"v".....*.|B.|.....R|B...........|B........|.".vvv.".|........*..........
.===|...##..v........|.B|.....v|v...........|v........|.".vvv."=====.....Rhhhhh=====
."**.#...#...hhB...Bhh.v|.....v|v...|.****..|v........|."....."...."....."....."....
#######..##..##########v|.....v|v...|##############################"....."....."####
###########..##########v############################################.....".....#####

Unfortunately, I've found that this design will limit stage creation in some ways. Like not allowing for poles or dynamite where pipes are originally at rest among other things. This annoys me.

So I will most likely store stages in xml form (help gyrovorbis, I'm turning into that old bald man at the book store). I'm thinking TinyXML. Maybe have stuff like:

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<pipe x="3" y="1" type="vertical" length="4" color="blue" />

It's a lot less efficient but sometimes you just gotta be like that. We'll see.