The dialogues will need a special system that isn't done yet. At first, they were suposed to be just explods, but Vans did a special dialogue system that I'll try to incorporate into the game. In the end, this system will bring some aesthetic and size benefits for us.

I don't know if he released it. His code was a method of bitwise shifting and stuff to pull the required letter and place it. So you wrote a sentence by typing out

28476372474628 and it would convert that to lettering. You don't need to do it that way so use the explod method, Nothing wrong with it at all and it's not going to cause you problems.

Trinitronity said, September 20, 2012, 03:39:55 pm

Cyanide said, September 19, 2012, 10:22:45 pm

I don't know if he released it. His code was a method of bitwise shifting and stuff to pull the required letter and place it. So you wrote a sentence by typing out

28476372474628 and it would convert that to lettering. You don't need to do it that way so use the explod method, Nothing wrong with it at all and it's not going to cause you problems.

Thanks for the advice, but how do I do that?

Let me try to explain without sounding like a computer science geek...

Each number in a computer is stored in binary form, as 0s and 1s. Much like how we use the decimal system which uses powers of 10 (ones place, tens place, hundreds place, etc), binary uses the same thing, but with powers of 2 instead (ones place, twos place, fours place, eights place, etc). So our number 12 in decimal would be written as 1100 (read as 1*8 + 1*4 + 0*2 + 0* 1 = 8+4 = 12).

Bitwise shifting is the process of moving each of the bits to the left or right. For example, number 5, which is 0101 in binary, bitwise shift to the left would produce 0101X (which is truncated to 1010) and bitwise shift to right would produce X010 (the last 1 is truncated). Notice that in this example the two numbers produced, 1010 and 0010 are 10 and 2 in binary, respectively. Thus, bitwise shifting is the equivalent to multiplying or dividing by 2.

Because bitwise shifting truncates values in the event of an overflow, a string of text can be stored as a number. For example, the letters in CAT, is we look at the alphabetical order, would be 01 05 20, which equate to 00001 00101 10100 in binary. If we write that as a single decimal number, that would be 1204. If we look at the last 5 bits (the 0s and 1s) and record that then bitwise shifting to the right 5 places and repeat until we have nothing left, we can return the values for T, A, and C in that order (yes, I know it is in reverse, you have to take that into account).

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Let me try to explain without sounding like a computer science geek...

I think I just failed at that.

The explod method.

Take some text. Arrange it into a sentence. Palette it. Use EXPLOD to display it. That's it. You should have really worked that out yourself.

And i said if you press start the intro will be skipped. I assume you don't want it to randomly pause the fight after it's started so you can progress your dialogue.

Either use direction keys, which is just a check on what is currently on screen and a command trigger or just let it run.

You can't use start.