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by Bill
Thu Oct 28, 2021 8:22 am
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Particle Demo
Replies: 16
Views: 9896

Particle Demo

particleDemoPreview.png ParticleDemo_v3b.zip Hrmm Didn't know where else to stick this, but I guess it's ' animation '? Found a very cool particle demo on another forum, converted the code to Livecode pretty easy, converting the floats to meaningful integers and matching the cool effects was a roug...
by Bill
Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:19 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: 3D Cube
Replies: 16
Views: 7466

Re: 3D Cube

We made an external for Runtime Revolution using OpenGL a long long time ago. It's GPL source. See here Apparently the ability to build the external is simply commented out in the source code. , but Tobi is a full time game developer now using Unity so there's no drive for him to use his personal fr...
by Bill
Wed Oct 13, 2021 2:37 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Sprite sheets give me a headache
Replies: 16
Views: 7446

Re: Sprite sheets give me a headache

Did someone say sprite sheets? I recycled a stack from a previous discussion in Games Ignore the "Untested" part on the top right as it applies to linear animation. NonLInearAnimationStackv1.png Non-Linear_SpriteAnimation.zip The button "NonLinearFrame" sizes will generate the frame sizes by measuri...
by Bill
Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:55 pm
Forum: Teaching with LiveCode
Topic: Scratch my back
Replies: 10
Views: 6343

Re: Scratch my back

ScratchControlsv2Snapshot.png
ScratchControls_ImporterV2_Emptyy.zip
(5.27 KiB) Downloaded 164 times
An improved version, one little menu, more room to play
"ProductionGroup" is just the menu and it's label.
by Bill
Thu Oct 07, 2021 5:05 pm
Forum: Teaching with LiveCode
Topic: Scratch my back
Replies: 10
Views: 6343

Re: Scratch my back

ScratchControlsSnapshot.png ScratchControls_Importer.zip Click the buttons from left to right until you reach "Stop here" First button gets file list from all folders in main PNG folder Second button imports all the images Third button lists all the images in the stack Fourth button removes "Scratc...
by Bill
Fri Oct 01, 2021 11:41 pm
Forum: Teaching with LiveCode
Topic: Scratch my back
Replies: 10
Views: 6343

Re: Scratch my back

there would be no perceived advantage to using the LiveCode front-ned when one could just use Scratch, A scratch like GUI would be stand alone product, or admin controlled front end, one that could obscure all the professional front end stuff from the end user. It would be implemented for making li...
by Bill
Thu Sep 30, 2021 7:47 am
Forum: Teaching with LiveCode
Topic: Scratch my back
Replies: 10
Views: 6343

Re: Scratch my back

Google has very well researched Best Practices for providing block coding user interface.

Your project would work for a simple game like this
Would be smart for there to be some tutorial that outputs xtalk like this spits out Javascript
by Bill
Thu Sep 30, 2021 6:58 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: A computer only does what you tell it to?
Replies: 1
Views: 1323

Re: A computer only does what you tell it to?

Where are you setting tSJ? it's filled in by the DataQuery? Hard to say what's happening from the script alone, try outputting the results to some text then you can maybe better figure out what's going on. Also maybe do: put "\\10.0.15.15\NC Files\" & ttLine & "\" & tLine & ".NC1" into tCopyTarget r...
by Bill
Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:01 am
Forum: Educational Outreach
Topic: Is this what we need?
Replies: 31
Views: 25337

Re: Is this what we need?

To demo your Scratch program, you need to install Scratch on the computer. This is completely false. There are literally thousands of examples of user made Scratch projects online in the browser, no install required, they can be edited in the web browser without any install. There is a social netwo...
by Bill
Sat Sep 25, 2021 2:04 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Launch Persistent Shell
Replies: 12
Views: 10825

Re: Launch Persistent Shell

-- a file to pipe output to put "%userprofile%/Documents/myCommand.txt" into tFile -- set up your command window title put quote & "MyCommandWindow" & quote into myTitle --build your command in a string put "start <Your_Program.exe> & title" && myTitle && "& tasklist /v /fo csv | findstr /i" && myT...
by Bill
Fri Sep 24, 2021 7:21 pm
Forum: Educational Outreach
Topic: Is this what we need?
Replies: 31
Views: 25337

Re: Is this what we need?

Scratch is developed by MIT, so they have funding that comes from alumni who have profittable careers in technology and get a nice tax write off for throwing money back at their school. Scratch is stupid simple and can be learned by a six year old, all by themselves with no help from an adult: Open ...
by Bill
Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:54 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Animated Characters from External Source
Replies: 9
Views: 6284

Re: Animated Characters from External Source

1. create a spritesheet 2. import to livecode 3. group the image 4. resize group to the size of your 'sprite' 5. set the lockloc of the group to true 6. in an init handler set the hScroll and vScroll to frame N of your sprite sheet 7. send a message to your animation handler 8. increment the hScrol...
by Bill
Sun May 20, 2018 5:13 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Reading Binaries int8, int32 etc.
Replies: 4
Views: 4403

Reading Binaries int8, int32 etc.

Er..int16 not int8 Trying to extract data from Tim Phillip's Realmz. How should I go about doing this? This is the sequence of data in Data BD file, other files have other ranges. The Mac OS Classic resources are a whole other beast to tackle. 169 is the number of entries. I assume I read then as po...
by Bill
Tue Dec 30, 2014 9:29 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Livecode Community Won't Open on Windows 7
Replies: 2
Views: 3981

Re: Livecode Community Won't Open on Windows 7

Oh ok I think I found something. C:/Users/User/MyDocuments/My Livecode/Externals When I have the iGame3D Pro External.dll in that folder but not in the Livecode application or Externals folder then the program doesn't launch. I just launched Version 7 without any additional externals installed once ...
by Bill
Mon Dec 16, 2013 7:59 am
Forum: Games
Topic: 8-bit ASCII retro game tool
Replies: 3
Views: 6382

Re: 8-bit ASCII retro game tool

Trying to figure out Z-80 machine code was no go but Oshonsoft's z80 simulator was an hour and a half of tutorial fun. Weird fun, like finding a rotary telephone a calling the printer port. ha . It's got a BASIC compiler, an Assembler, It even wrote a file the Aquarius loaded and went into ?SN Error...

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