Re: SE 5 Editor
 

Perfect! Thank you! If you let me know any information you wish to have known in the credits, I'll put ya in http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

Just credit James "Combat Wombat" Phillips

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

Woohoo! I've got the formula parser working. It will now evaluate a formula and tell if its valid or not. I can also plug in values for any "variables" in the formula and calculate the answers.

Next steps: Formula wizard to help create formulas and show the values of the formulas at various levels.

Getting close! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

Here's some shots of the Formula Wizard - it's turning out quite well, actually.

Valid Formula:
http://www.devnullsoftware.com/img/s...la_wizard1.jpg

Invalid Formula (with explanation of error):
http://www.devnullsoftware.com/img/s...la_wizard2.jpg

I'm just about done with the formula wizard. After that, I need to debug the column sorting and reordering in the facility list (it works MOST of the time, but sometimes not, so I need to find out why and fix it) and then package it all up with an installer.

Once I release the initial version, I'll start on the component editor.

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

Here is something that may catch you:
What is 100 + 10 - 10 - 100?

And another good one is:
100 / 2 / 2 / 2
Also ask yourself if the answer should be rounded off.

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

Yeah... SE5 has its own unique interpretation of arithmetic.

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

According to the wizard, the values for those are:
0 and 12.5

I have no idea how SEV does its rounding. The library I'm using does all the calculations as doubles (floating point values).

Are there some strange rules that SE5 uses that I should try to put in the calculator?

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

This editor is absolutely fantastic.
Top notch work Devnullicus! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

ok, now that the facility editor is done, I've started on the components editor. There sure is an awful lot of info for each component! I had to go to a tabbed Form just to hold all the options! Anyway, here's a few screenshots to show what the GUI layout will be:

General Tab:
http://www.devnullsoftware.com/se5/i...ts_editor1.png

Requirements & Abilities Tab:
http://www.devnullsoftware.com/se5/i...ts_editor2.png

Weapon Tab:
http://www.devnullsoftware.com/se5/i...ts_editor3.png

Re: SE 5 Editor
 

Dev will your editor take into account mad men with nuty mods? For instance one weapon I made has this range formula:

0 - iif([%Range%] < 20, 0, iif([%Range%] < 50, 10, iif([%Range%] < 90, 20, iif([%Range%] < 140, 30, iif([%Range%] < 170, 40, iif([%Range%] < 200, 50, iif([%Range%] < 230, 60, iif([%Range%] < 250, 70, iif([%Range%] < 270, 80, iif([%Range%] < 500, 90, 0))))))))))

And another has this damage formula:

iif([%Range%] <= 10, 80, iif([%Range%] <= 20, 70, iif([%Range%] <= 30, 50, iif([%Range%] <= 60, 40, iif([%Range%] <= 90, 30, iif([%Range%] <= 130, 20, iif([%Range%] <= 240, 10, iif([%Range%] > 241, 0, 0))))))))