Prince Of Persia Dot Net (princeofpersia.net): December 2012

Friday, 28 December 2012

Climb Down

Dear,

I finally finished the climbdown sequence, I had to introduce a new command to see if kid has to hang or swing on the way down from the platform.

New command = IFGOTOSEQUENCE

if true parse the first parameter else the second

Example:

<Frame>
<type>COMMAND</type>
<name>IFGOTOSEQUENCE</name>
<parameter>HANGSTRAIGHT|HANG</parameter>
<stoppable>false</stoppable>
</Frame>

Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Next Step

The next step is complete all kid movement (not combat) animations, now i'm working on ClimbDown sequence and Jump and hang movement.

I tried to look at the C source code of Apoplex (an PoP level editor), to see if I could implement saving as xml PoP.net, but I found some problems in recompile the source code..

When I am sure that the format of PoP.net I created meets the requirements to implement all the features of saving the original PoP, most likely will contact the author of Apoplex to ask him if he has time to implement my save level format.

Next days i will release a new alpha PoP.net with some new rooms and a complete Kid movement animations.

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Kid exploring

Finally Kid can explore three rooms..and move all around PoP.net maze!

Try it!

Only three rooms because i will edit the first dungeon level....

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Blueprint and Maze file format

The original PoP use a specific file format for save/load the dungeon rooms, it's a format made for the original MAC II version.

Some Pop fans have created some visual editor for modify the orginal PoP levels in their original "blueprint" format. (apoplex and other..)

I wish to ask if any of their authors who want to create the ability to save in PoP.net xml format or ask the original source for make an extra save type.

Yes i will use a simple XML format for build the maze by class reflection, like this.

---

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Level xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<levelName>dungeon_prison</levelName>
<rows>
<RoomRow>
<columns>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomStart>true</RoomStart>
<RoomIndex>1</RoomIndex>
<FilePath>MAP_dungeon_prison_1.xml</FilePath>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
</columns>
</RoomRow>
<RoomRow>
<columns>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>2</RoomIndex>
<FilePath>MAP_dungeon_prison_2.xml</FilePath>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>3</RoomIndex>
<FilePath>MAP_dungeon_prison_3.xml</FilePath>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
<RoomColumn>
<RoomIndex>0</RoomIndex>
</RoomColumn>
</columns>
</RoomRow>
</rows>
</Level>

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This open format can be simple edited by hand for build own dungeon.

Now i'm working on this file format for give to kid ability to move through the rooms...

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Flames!

Some animated flames....

I have add some functionality :

-> animated tiles
-> xml file definition for animation sequence like kid sequence

Now it works but i will rewrite some routines for do a clean code...

Example of TORCH_SEQUENCE.XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfSequence xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<Sequence>
<frames>
<Frame>
<type>SPRITE</type>
<name>LOOP</name>
<value>Tiles/FloorB_1</value>
<stoppable>false</stoppable>
<xOffSet>0</xOffSet>
<yOffSet>0</yOffSet>
</Frame>
<Frame>
<type>SPRITE</type>
<name></name>
<value>Tiles/FloorB_2</value>
<stoppable>false</stoppable>
<xOffSet>0</xOffSet>
<yOffSet>0</yOffSet>
</Frame>
<Frame>
<type>SPRITE</type>
<name></name>
<value>Tiles/FloorB_3</value>
<stoppable>false</stoppable>
<xOffSet>0</xOffSet>
<yOffSet>0</yOffSet>
</Frame>
...........
<Frame>
<type>COMMAND</type>
<name>GOTOFRAME</name>
<parameter>LOOP</parameter>
<stoppable>false</stoppable>
</Frame>
</frames>
<name>NORMAL</name>
<raised>false</raised>
</Sequence>

</ArrayOfSequence>