Walrus Kingdom (former PocketWalrus) [PC] [Windows] [Java] [Walrus]

Dream of Omnimaga · February 21, 2017, 05:39:22 PM

My suggestion: Only scale by integers. Eg if the window is just enough for 2x scaling then stick to 2x and as soon as it gets just large enough for 3x in both directions, then jump straight to 3x, and so on.

p2 · February 21, 2017, 08:14:32 PM

I might try that, but I think that will kill fullscreen on most screens...
but I might try that and then center the game screen, we'll see

Sorunome · February 21, 2017, 08:30:49 PM

If the upscaling factor is large enough, such as 10x or something, in-betweens shouldn't look too ugly, either

p2 · February 21, 2017, 08:34:35 PM

jep, it's much worse close to the original zoom factor

I'll try to do this "integer zoom mode" (thx dj) and do it centered and with black borders and then post screenshots of it

Dream of Omnimaga · February 21, 2017, 08:37:46 PM

Quote from: p2 on February 21, 2017, 08:14:32 PM
I might try that, but I think that will kill fullscreen on most screens...
but I might try that and then center the game screen, we'll see

That is fine I think. After all, it's not like NES and SNES emulators use the entire screen, and there are even games that don't even use the full SNES resolution (Final Fantasy VI, Star Fox, DOOM, Stunt Race FX, etc). Or you could make it stretched at any zoom in full screen (in which case it won't look all that bad since the resolution will be so high), but at integers when in restored window mode (like when resizing Wabbitemu).

p2 · March 06, 2017, 04:18:04 PM

I sadly got lots of stuff to do lately so theres almost no time left for programming.. :/
This basically means that this project is paused for the time being.
I seriously don't know if I can finish this project but I'll try to continue it soon.

sry <3

Dream of Omnimaga · March 06, 2017, 05:05:44 PM

I hope it's not dead D:

p2 · March 06, 2017, 06:44:39 PM

nah it's just that I have lots of new stuff to learn for work right now (node.js, AJAX, REST services, Twig, jQuery, ...) which takes up most of my time

I really hope I can continue once I have more free time.
Bot don't expect updates for the next few weeks... :/

Dream of Omnimaga · March 07, 2017, 03:59:27 AM

Ah ok. I thought it was due to some extremely long term (like months or years) duties >.<

p2 · March 07, 2017, 08:45:21 AM

nah it's not that serious xD
But until summer I'm more or less not going to have much free time, we'll see.
But I'm pretty confident that I can work a lo on it again this summer

p2 · March 08, 2017, 08:40:07 PM

Had to reinstall my laptop and in the process setup both Eclipse and Github again which made me work on WalrusKingdom a least a little bit again ^^
But all I managed to achive was fixing the stuff that was broken by the reinstallation (except the font support which is still broken)

but yay at least I took another look at the code :3

Dream of Omnimaga · March 08, 2017, 10:32:22 PM

I noticed you had computer issues the other day on IRC but I forgot when I posted here. I'm glad you didn't lose everything. I hope you are doing frequent backups.

p2 · March 08, 2017, 10:33:37 PM

I did for WalrusKingdom, but apparently not for my work-related stuff (at least not for all of it) xD which turned out to be a bad decicion...

(I only lost 3 days of work, so it's not too bad)

p4nix · March 09, 2017, 07:44:24 AM

Quote from: p2 on March 08, 2017, 10:33:37 PM
(I only lost 3 days of work, so it's not too bad)

If I were your boss, you would be dead by now

p2 · March 09, 2017, 09:04:52 AM

At least I documented my work so I was able to redo it pretty fast

Also it was windows failures leading to this (the reason I now also returned to windows7)
getting a bluescreen every time you launch a virtual machine is no fun

@DJ Omnimaga:
I thought about copying your way of entering houses, but now I'm thinking about the following:
The current zoom factor is calculated each loop, graphics soom is adapted as soon as the result changes.
I think about deactivating the auto calculation of the zoom factor for a moment and instead smoothly increase it until it's the double, letting the graphics soom in (which would require a massive change to the Screen-Map retrieval method).
So as soon as you walk into a house, the game zooms in until the house is twice as big and centered (with scrolling locked to the house being centered) so I have more space for the inside of houses (which will NOT be zoomed in, so it'll be twice the definition for the inside of the house) ^^
Does this explanation make sense? ^^

I'm not sure yet if it's even possible due to the indeed massive changes to the entire map retrieval and rendering methods... :/ But it'd sure look cool!