A more fluid way of BYOND's walking system!

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Apr 26 2008, 8:15 am
I was thinking about it, and it does make it look better a little bit. If you add in the command:
pixel_step_size=round(MoveDelay/32)

with a said moving proc like(Though, you'll have to set it to a client/var).
mob
    var
        tmp
            Moving
        MoveDelay=3
    Move()
        if(Moving) return
        ..()
        Moving=1
        spawn(MoveDelay) Moving=0

The overall effect just makes the movement look more fluid and how you want it to go with the moving delay so you dont reach the tile and wait for awhile then start moving again. I havn't tested it too much, so if theres any problems you can see with it say so right here so people aren't practicing the wrong things.
Apr 26 2008, 12:11 pm
Move() needs to return a value. I don't know why this needs to be said so damn often (probably because the tutorials neglect to explain what returning values means). As you just want to return the value from the default Move(), you need to replace ..() with .=..() ( . is the default return value variable).
Apr 26 2008, 3:05 pm
In response to Garthor
Yeah, i've never heard of that >.>
May 19 2008, 9:28 am
In response to Bakasensei
Doesn't ..() just call the parent version of the proc? Therefore, wouldn't the parent return a value anyway?
May 19 2008, 9:31 am
In response to TikaPSO13
TikaPSO13 wrote:
Doesn't ..() just call the parent version of the proc? Therefore, wouldn't the parent return a value anyway?

Calling ..() does not do the same as returning the value returned by ..(). The parent procedure does return a value: at the parent procedure, not the function you're overriding.
May 19 2008, 10:28 am
In response to Unknown Person
It would be easier to a newer programmer not to have to put things in procs they dont really understand. I looked at C++ one time, and I didn't understand why you had to put that strange thing at the top..
May 19 2008, 1:53 pm
In response to Kaiochao
Which strange thing?
May 19 2008, 2:09 pm
In response to Garthor
The <iostream> thing.

Doesn't matter, I'm not a C++ programmer anyways and don't plan to be anytime soon. Maybe when I'm older I'll look into it.
May 20 2008, 1:02 pm
In response to Kaiochao
That's including the iostream library from the C++ Standard Libraries (iostream being short for "input/output stream operations library"). You need to include various Libraries in BYOND too, with other libraries, except BYOND builds a lot of features into the language -- basically, BYOND already includes a core set of libraries for you. BYOND's library inclusion is also made a bit easier through the use of its IDE, although you can still manually include Libraries in BYOND as so:

#include <Jtgibson/jt_vectors>

...which might look rather familiar to any contemporary C/C++ programmer.