Final Fantasy

[copthesaint]

I am making final fatasy may need help l8r but feel free to ask what i am doing or anything

[S_Grimm]

please don't post without a question. if you want to post something like this, post it in general discussion. Could a mod move this thread please? or Delete it?

[isaiahk9]

um . . . no offense but making a game that is in any way like Final Fantasy would induce a ton of work. I mean, if this is a project, I would suggest picking something else (even if it is due at the end of the term/semester). If it is just for your own fun, good luck.
Just a hint, A fighter game (decently sized, but smaller than you think) I made took me 200+ hours minimum.

[Tony]

This is my take on it

compsci.ca/blog wrote:

RPG - if you hate your life (and some apparently do), this obviously final year attempt at video game programming glory is likely to end badly. The game engine itself is often fairly spread out (world travel, town travel, shops, fights, etc) and requires an ungodly amount of effort. That leaves you with practically no time to design any plot or story for this project. Though some students chose to concentrate on a limited part of the game, putting together a demo segment to salvage such game design project into something more presentable.

Though I've seen some projects done.

@copthesaint -- I'd be interested in hearing more about your project. What do you have done so far? What's your plan for it?

[copthesaint]

You want to know updates goto http://forum.3ice.hu/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=224&p=673#p673

I want to make a full Final Fantasy game and I am making my So to say "story line " after when my game is functionable.
My game will not be done for a good 3-6 months. And when I sa done I mean animations, menus, characters, monsters, bosses, spells, collisions, ect ect.
I have till the end of NEXT semester to do this so time is not an issue. (im in computer class next semester and my teacher knows i have already started my game.

Also thanks for worrying about if I can get this done but I don't need criticism


My current Question:
Is there a command to change view to greyscale? (just black and white)
If so also is there a command that restores color?
This would be a great effect for when the main character dies.
It's fine if there isn't but I couldn't find it in the command reference.

Also I will need help with saving later. This is the one thing I will have most difficulty with. I have an idea about how to save but anyways I'm not worrying about that yet.

[copthesaint]

Next Question.

How do I use var. in font.draw
Like a number in font.draw
for ex.
var randomnumber:= 9
Font.Draw (randomnumber,0,0,font1,black

and well you know that this won't work what would I have to do
(PUT OR PRINT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE)

also i don't want a million if statments ;p;

[[Gandalf]]

That Font.Draw parameter only takes a string, so use:
Font.Draw("text" + var, 0, 0, font1, black)
or
Font.Draw(intstr(var), 0, 0, font1, black)

Edit: Fixed string cast, better languages ftw.

[copthesaint]

Thanks [Gandalf]
Font.Draw(intstr(volume), 0, 0, fnt1, black)
btw for learning purposes what does intstr mean and stand for? I don't want to just use it not knowing what it does.

[Insectoid]

intstr () converts an integer to a string. There are a whole bunch of commands like this.

code:

intstr () strint () strreal() realstr() intreal()

There are also things like strintok(), which will check if the string can be converted to another format.

code:

strintok () strrealok()

[SNIPERDUDE]

For the greyscale I would look into RGB. Ex:

Turing:

RGB.SetColour (newclr, oldclr/255, oldclr/255, oldclr/255)

[copthesaint]

thanks i will need that for an effect after

Mod Edit: CompSci.ca is not ment for tranfsering files, please do not post files for such proposes.

[syntax_error]

Just a tip, don't waste time on things such as Game music, leave that as a var, if really needed, get the core coding part done; then go around adding little easter eggs here and there.

[copthesaint]

Here's a tip don't tell people what to do. Who are you to tell me I can't get my Music.
Also A good Programer will get MUSIC it is a key element to a game...
If you don't know that well you know who you are.

And now because of your rude coment I can't delet my file TRANSFER

[syntax_error]

Okay, how about you learn about the wonderful word of grammar in that, there is a topic on verb tenses, see from that you learn about the imperative tense. After which you can tell me if that was me telling you what to do or was it a simple thought: an idea.

That would have a double befit to you -- you would understand people better, and express yourself more coherently. Which may have a by-product of you integrating with society in a much more pleasant manner.

I will not argue with you what a good programmer is, so I shall leave that up to you, I simply had made a general comment about doing any type of project, work with core first then add all the extra goodies. This just incentives you to, not get distracted on the other issues then the coding itself.

copthesaint wrote:

If you don't know that well you know who you are.

No idea what the above means, see if you think about my advice as I said earlier on grammar, we would not have this issue.

Lastly, to solve the problem of the file : to delete the uploaded file simply go to UCP and remove it from there, see all you had to do was ask.
No need to remove the post.

Happy coding =]

[ecookman]

just wondering is this game going to follow the same story line as one of the previous FF's

or themed that way...

any way could i help? or see what you have done so far i am intregued