SE 5 Editor - Page 4

Devnullicus · #31 October 27th, 2006, 03:55 AM

Perfect! Thank you! If you let me know any information you wish to have known in the credits, I'll put ya in

Combat Wombat · #32 October 27th, 2006, 04:09 AM

Just credit James "Combat Wombat" Phillips

Devnullicus · #33 October 27th, 2006, 05:53 AM

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!

Devnullicus · #34 October 27th, 2006, 08:33 AM

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

Valid Formula:

Invalid Formula (with explanation of error):

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.

Suicide Junkie · #35 October 27th, 2006, 08:41 AM

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.

Fyron · #36 October 27th, 2006, 01:48 PM

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

Devnullicus · #37 October 27th, 2006, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Suicide Junkie said:
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.

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?

Timstone · #38 October 27th, 2006, 05:38 PM

This editor is absolutely fantastic.
Top notch work Devnullicus!

Devnullicus · #39 October 30th, 2006, 07:10 PM

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:

Requirements & Abilities Tab:

Weapon Tab:

President_Elect_Shang · #40 October 31st, 2006, 12:57 AM

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))))))))