i love the off-kilter text boxes. they give the game a fantastic feel.
how responsive is it?

This topic has been moved to Other Calc-Related Projects And Ideas, because it is a calc-related project.

http://ourl.ca/14098

it's still alive, yes. things are just going slowly, and i don't want to start posting stuff again until i have at least as much as i did for that first screenshot in this thread. i don't want to bump things over and over when i haven't actually gotten anything new done.

firstly: i know nothing about lua, and nearly nothing about nspires
secondly, i know you're new, but please avoid posting twice in a row in a topic unless

there has been 6 hours since your last post, 3 hours if your thread has been bumped out of the New Posts page, 1 hour if it's a project update or immediately if you need to upload more than 10 file attachments at once. Otherwise, update the last post using the "EDIT" button. It will be marked as unread for all members (altough it won't bump the thread).

i'm not angry or anything; it just makes everything more clean and orderly and helps people to help one another if everything is clean and orderly.
thirdly, is this the Rambo you mean? if so, that looks a little boring, but it would definitely be doable in Lua, and i doubt it would take that much work either. you should try it =)

raycasting would not be suitable for minecraft, because it deals with two-dimensional level data rather than 3. it is, basically, a method of displaying this 2-dimensional level in a three dimensional manner. it does so by using virtual "rays" which are cast out from the player's position in the direction he is facing. these "rays" will continue to move until they reach the maximum distance he can see, or until they hit an object, like this:


one of these rays has to be cast for every pixel along the screen's width (or every other, if you're pressed for speed, but that results in approximations and less detail).

now, if this was all, our screen from above would look something like this:


however, we need 3 dimensions, so this single row of pixels needs to be stretched out to look like this:


this is done by making rays which hit objects sooner taller, and those which hit later shorter. textures are done by skewing images according to these heights, like this:


raycasting has been done on the nspire already, but making a good game with it, like wolfenstein, for example, is very difficult to do. full 3d, like one would need for minecraft, is practically impossible.

i could see one way this could be somewhat useful:
typically, documentation for projects is made in computer-readable formats only, but the program is not always distributed via computer (people hand it out to friends at school), and, even if it was received from a computer, that computer will not always be handy when using the program.
documentation for things could be made in this format and distributed from one calc to another as a program.

hey, i moved your topic to a more suitable board, as you posted it in an area reserved for discussing new games or tools.

i don't know much about the nSpires, but i do know that Ti-connect is a very finicky character. for example:
it often just doesn't work for, seemingly, no reason, and
it won't work at all if you have TILP drivers installed, which you seem to have.
TI-connect also interferes with TILP, so you should choose one of them, and remove the other entirely. i would go with TILP, as i've not had any problems with it after setup.
someone else can probably assist you in removing TI-connect.

undo and redo would definitely be helpful, but it would end up using a lot of RAM. maybe the command history could be overwritten and used for that purpose? (i have no idea; i'm just spouting ideas).