Day 22: Finished MapEditor and Doing Tutorial Work

Well, I finished MapEditor's rendering bug and made it ready to be released. For that, I spent 1 hours getting nowhere and the finishing it relatively quickly the next hour after being confused for 10 minutes.

Since I have nothing to do, I decided to work on my tutorial. I completed part 1 and even managed to start working on part 2.

Tommorow, I will start work on KRPGE 0.0.3. For now, I must release my mapeditor in the form of KRPGE 0.0.2

Day 21: Wrapping up Mapeditor Development

Today, I finished both the map stamping option scroller and the editing system as well. So you can edit maps and cycle through the options that you want to stamp.

The only thing left is writing messages for the logger and fixing typing rendering bug, as well writing the README for the map editor.

It will be released as KRPGE-0.0.2 instead of a standalone application. After that, I'll be working on the next version of KRPGE, incorporating any useful stuff leftover from the playground project.

9 more days left! :D

Day 20: You can delete!

It is now possible to delete stuff in your mapeditor! It took me a good two hours to code out the functionality and then debug and fix it. Along the way, I made an improvement to the map engine's camera. You can save it and then reload it to see if it work.

I also learned that integers are immutable. Bumber!

Then the rest of my time are spent on figuring a way to display these characters and items graphics on the object chooser so I can get started on adding support for modifying the map. They don't work quite the same way as the map engine do. By the end of my 4 hours effort, I think I was quite close to finishing the mechanism for drawing these images.

Day 19: Kept getting interrupted

I kept getting interrupted by my parents for task that they want me to get done. This mean I had to restart the hour I am in before it is an hour to me for sure. Nonetheless, I managed to get the 4 hours done and lot of commits in.

Here is the stuff that I accomplished and work on:

The typing system work now and you can use it to save your file. It even send a message to LoggerUI about the fact that the file has been written to disk.

The object of choice you want to stamp are now displayed. You can even change the object that you want to stamp. I still need to add support for characters and items though.

Day 18: Engine Bugfix and Completed Map Display

For Day 18, I divided my effort among several features of the mapeditor.

First, I worked on displaying the map. Then I wrote the code that eliminate drawing the majority of maps on the object, making sure that it only got drawn on the proportion of the screen. This has lead to engine code cleanup.

Next, I worked on integrating the map stamp into the engine's camera. There I have to fix a few bugs relating to the synchronization of the objects. I also have to write code for objects that does not inherit the Character class so that the map stamp can work.

Lastly, I worked on implementing the frame rate for debugging and performance analysis purpose.

12 more days to go than my 4 hours experiment will be completed.

Day 17: Resume Work on MapEditor

Today, I resume my work on the mapeditor part of my KRPGE framework.

It now load the map for editing and the editing stamp has been implemented.
Beyond that, I reused the engine code in preparation for display. There is some cleanup work on LoggerUI and the EditMode class.

That conclude Day 17 of the productivity experiment.

I expect to display the maps for tomorrow and start implementing the editing system.

Day 16: Mapeditor Progress Report

For Day 16, here is the mapeditor progress report:

I fixed a crash bug in my rbgooey library so the mapeditor program wouldn't crash just because it is refreshing texts.

I also made the input system completely functional. The only thing missing is that it didn't launch into editmode yet.

The EditMode class got a bunch of code addition that won't be used until all the necessary classes are in place. The classes that are necessary are pretty much in place, because I am reusing many of the game engine component for the map project. It is just a matter of integration and getting all the neccessary data into place.

Day 15: Restarting Work on Map Editor

For Day 15, I restarted work on the map editor program for my KRPGE framework. However, I did not make much visible progress.

I have a tendency to have rendering problem but eventually that get solved. There were quite a bit of work on the input system and also work on gathering data so it can load files. The class for editing is created but not much is in there yet.

For the last hour of my programming time, I was investigating an interesting bug that crash my map editor after a certain amount of rendering. I found out that all the font that was opened stay open...so when I open enough of them, it crash.

Tommorow, I'll have to fix rbgooey's textrender class so it doesn't create excess files to the point of crashing the program and continue writing my map editor program.

Day 7: Slowly but Surely

Day 7 marks another day in the development of the map editor. I am still stuck in the mapeditor's file menu system. The good news is that I am on the verge of moving toward the editing system.

I created three distinct UI element. These are typepad, the logger, and the file scroller. I also used the modal system instead of the regular toolbars. The logger element lists event that has tooken place such as loading files. The scroller is responsible for displaying files. The typepad is for typing. So far, the scroller is the only complete element. Logger's functionality is almost complete. It only lack deleting old messages thus any more messages over 5 will overflow the screen. Typepad is functional for typing but the event triggers are not programmed in yet.

The mapeditor, by design, is modal(just like vim). For example, if you want to type, you have to press tab.(and disable all keyboard functionality except typing) To finish typing, you also have to press tab. When you're finished, all the other keyboard functionality become available.