Can someone link me to the latest GRAPHICAL version of Cataclysm?

CIB · 2013-08-22T18:02:34.000Z

DG123:

Holy CRAP the “self bow” SUCKS. It’s completely ineffective against anything because I don’t have fletching or arrow heads and can’t get them until I have high archery skill.

Keep shooting at the floor until archery is at level 3, disassemble your self-bow, craft a longbow. Even with wood hardened arrows it does about 10 damage on a good hit.

DG123 · 2013-08-22T18:44:21.000Z

I am at level 3. No option is there for a longbow.

I’m using version 0.6 of the game so that might be why. I can only get a self bow and short bow.

GalenEvil · 2013-08-22T19:11:54.000Z

SilverDragon:

Cant wait mate <3, is it going to come with a default pack? or will we have to scour the forums for one to attach?

It’s supposed to have a default pack, but we don’t have a complete one quite yet hehe. Deon is in the process of making one to fit all of the current hardcoded definitions I think, not sure how many of the items he’ll do though. There are a bit more than 400 hardcoded tile definitions, and several hundred item definitions spread over the item JSON files. I need to make a few hardcoded default tile definitions for them to fall back to if it is not defined, one for each major category.

DG123 · 2013-08-22T19:25:55.000Z

I’m curious to see how on earth the vehicles turn out with a tileset. Must be tricky to make those look decent…

GalenEvil · 2013-08-22T20:55:57.000Z

Yeah, for now they are likely to look as weird as the current vehicles when rotated. I’ll have to fix that eventually hehe. Shouldn’t be too difficult, but it’s not on my immediate todo list. It is likely to be the absolute ugliest part of the tileset system

KA101 · 2013-08-23T00:22:11.000Z

GalenEvil:

Yeah, for now they are likely to look as weird as the current vehicles when rotated. I’ll have to fix that eventually hehe. Shouldn’t be too difficult, but it’s not on my immediate todo list. It is likely to be the absolute ugliest part of the tileset system

Granted, people do all sorts of weird custom stuff without automotive paint or anything, so eventually a Deathmobile ought to look kinda ugly. All the panels ripped from other things and welded on, etc. I don’t perceive a problem there.

Jericoshost · 2013-08-23T02:23:12.000Z

So how far off do tiles look? Any guesstimates?

GalenEvil · 2013-08-23T02:34:45.000Z

Tonight I’ll finish adding in the animation support systems. Since they will be impacting non-Tiles builds as well to some extent I will be testing with them until I can get a full tileset usable which should be just a few days more. Just got explosions moved into tileset and curses, next up is bullet/shrapnel animation followed by vehicle animation. Rain may or may not go in tonight, depends a bit on how long it takes me to move the other animation layers to their new locations. Once I am finished for the night I will be setting up a PR for testing.

DG123 · 2013-08-23T09:39:16.000Z

Is it looking like I’ll be able to transfer my save from 0.6 to the new tileset version?

If so, how do you do so? Just the save folder? Or is the world itself saved elsewhere?

GalenEvil · 2013-08-23T10:38:38.000Z

If 0.6 is compatible with the current 0.7.1 saves then you will be able to transfer it. Otherwise you’ll have to start fresh. I have been banging my head against the wall, finally got explosions drawing properly after 6 hours of working on it! Seems I kept trying to draw it off the screen somewhere in the code. Sadly, the current fix is a bit ugly and couples it directly to the drawing system, which makes my elegant looking code ugly by association. But I am too damned tired right now to clean up that bit and will have to do it when not half passed out. Gotta get to work on the other animations. Now that I know it’s easy enough to just couple the animations it should be simple enough to pull get it done haha.

i2amroy · 2013-08-23T10:39:14.000Z

[quote=“DG123, post:104, topic:2547”]Is it looking like I’ll be able to transfer my save from 0.6 to the new tileset version?

If so, how do you do so? Just the save folder? Or is the world itself saved elsewhere?[/quote]
Almost certainly no. There has been a ton of changes on that front, even just going from 7.1 to the upcoming .8.

xLemor · 2013-08-23T12:52:30.000Z

[quote=“DG123, post:104, topic:2547”]Is it looking like I’ll be able to transfer my save from 0.6 to the new tileset version?

If so, how do you do so? Just the save folder? Or is the world itself saved elsewhere?[/quote]
Nop, i just tried 0.7.1 to last night build and the save broke saying Debug: Profession not found.
The profession i was using is still in the game.

DG123 · 2013-08-23T12:59:37.000Z

Damn. Are there debug codes I could use to get my skill levels and items back?

GalenEvil · 2013-08-23T13:03:16.000Z

Debug menu > Wish > ‘/’ + name of the item
That will get you the items.
Dunno if there is a way to selectively increase skills through Debug menu. You can increase ALL skills, but haven’t played around enough to see if you can increase single skills by X amount.

kevin.granade · 2013-08-23T15:15:41.000Z

In the latest version the skill debug men lets you set your skills exactly where you want them, so yes.

SilverDragon · 2013-08-23T19:43:19.000Z

GalenEvil:

If 0.6 is compatible with the current 0.7.1 saves then you will be able to transfer it. Otherwise you’ll have to start fresh.

Shame it dont matter much to me, every time i progress in some way it seems to crash and i lose everything XD, it would be nice if the game autosaved on crash

jcannon98188 · 2013-08-23T21:47:11.000Z

SilverDragon:

[quote=“GalenEvil, post:105, topic:2547”]If 0.6 is compatible with the current 0.7.1 saves then you will be able to transfer it. Otherwise you’ll have to start fresh.

Shame it dont matter much to me, every time i progress in some way it seems to crash and i lose everything XD, it would be nice if the game autosaved on crash[/quote]

A crash isn’t expected, and thus you can’t really save the game on crash. A crash is exactly that, the thing crashing.

CIB · 2013-08-23T21:57:48.000Z

SilverDragon:

Shame it dont matter much to me, every time i progress in some way it seems to crash and i lose everything XD, it would be nice if the game autosaved on crash

No, that’s good. If it saved on crash, it might corrupt your savefile.

DG123 · 2013-08-24T00:27:09.000Z

A previous version DID corrupt my save file even without saving. Explain that if you can.

Which is why I now keep a save back up.

stone94 · 2013-08-24T14:30:32.000Z

[quote=“DG123, post:114, topic:2547”]A previous version DID corrupt my save file even without saving. Explain that if you can.

Which is why I now keep a save back up.[/quote]
autosave maybe?