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Reply to UberFix v1.02 in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

Hai everybody - Ptarth made a help-me post on the SupCom/FA modding community boards, so I thought I'd drop by and see what I could do to help. I've been modding the moho engine in Lua since November 2006. I'm a student now so oodles of time to help you guys out. Forkthread does not cause a simultaneous function to be run. It adds it to a list to be run at the next tick. The costs of actually forking a hardware thread are excessive, if you allow it to be called so trivially. Lua does

Reply to Is there a way to test lua code? in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

Tester gonna be posted soon then. Derog: In Conquest.lua, just use local ok, msg = pcall(doscript, "Filepath") if not ok then LOG(msg) doscript("old conquest.lua filepath") end http://www.filefront.com/15009705/lua_pftest.exe This will attempt to launch test.lua in the same directory. Any errors will be output to the console window. Both #comment and continue loo

Reply to Copyright/license of mod? in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

That sounds very painful.

Reply to Copyright/license of mod? in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

From my experience as a long-time SupCom modder, there was little issue here. Typically, actual code is a negligible resource when it comes to mods, and resources like art are much more valuable. Partly, this is because most mods require no complex code at all, and anyone who's read the Lua manual (and caught up on Demigod's systems) should be able to write virtually any mod. Not just that, but it's common that people will ask for technical support for a piece of code, and end up have it near

Reply to Is there a way to test lua code? in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

Regular Lua actually has quite a few pitfalls when you attempt to export C++ systems, because it's a C library, so it doesn't support critical C++ features like templates and object orientation (from the API side anyway, e.g. you can't expose a member function). However, the actual syntax compared to a standard Lua 5.1.4 build is negligible, and I have a personal version with #comments and suchlike in it. I could post a "tester" exe if you like. It's generally bad practice to use #com

Reply to Tutorial: How to Hook in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

table.insert and table.remove use numerical keys. table.insert(table, value) is correct. If table.insert worked like that, what would be the point compared to using table[key] = value? I checked the lua.org documentation, and it does specify optionally to add the key for (table, key, value) but I have never seen it used this way and it's perfectly possible that it doesn't function this way in Lua 5.0.1 (Demigod's Lua), especially since there is no point to it compared to tab[k] = v. t

Demigod from previous Windows appears corrupt in Demigod Problem Reports Demigod Forums

If you install Demigod to a different hard drive, then reinstall Windows, Impulse will register it as corrupt. What exactly is the point of allowing the user to install to different drives if it's still tied to Windows? I am not going to re-install the game for the tenth damn time because I reinstalled Windows. Severely pissed off.

Reply to How do i get my mods working? in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

1.2 didn't really get delayed so much as expanded. The original feature list for 1.2 is much smaller than the current feature list.

Tutorial: How to Hook in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

Some of the modders in the SupCom mod community have made some abysmal code that causes problems with compatibility even now, so I'mma write a quick tutorial here on how to make your mod compatible. #1 Tables. You can recognize a table by the use of {}. This marks a table constructor. Tables are passed by reference- that is, if you pass a table to a function, the table is the same table, and not copied. Table constructors can contain fields, like this:[code]{ &nb

Configuration is unnecessarily complex, and other feedback in Ready to Play Stardock Forums

I think that the configuration of Ready to Play was far too involved, and a lot of the data was too subjective to be of use. I think that instead of asking the user about their rig, it should just pull the CPU, card and RAM from Windows, for example. The preferences thing was very annoying too- why on earth did I have to sort by ALL of them? Shouldn't there be an "I don't care" option? Moreover, you couldn't re-order your preferences, so I twice had to undo the list and re-do it, and the anim

Reply to Building the Demigod Mod'ing Communty (A Must Read For Any Interested Modders) in Demigod Modding Demigod Forums

We already have a place to gather - here, and also on the GPG forums, where many moho engine experienced modders await.

Reply to Stardock coding practices in Elemental Dev Journals Demigod Forums

Does Stardock use any scripting languages?

Reply to Could the beta program be an experience unto itself? in Elemental Dev Journals Demigod Forums

No beta testing for non-preorders/

Reply to Stop joining Pro games if you are a terrible player in Demigod Demigod Forums

Drugfreeboy: He doesn't have a point at all. Noob vs Pro is completely subjective, and with custom games as ranked, there's no way to judge your current skill instead of your skill where you played the most games, especially considering how shitty it is because you can just make whatever settings you like and still get your win ranked. On the other hand, when you're a team of premades, then it's a fact that everyone on the team knows each other and plays together regularly.

Reply to Looking towards Epoch 3 in Demigod Journals Demigod Forums

Customs not being recorded statswise is absolutely essential.

Reply to Why all the hate? in Demigod Demigod Forums

I'm new to the forum and world, if you couldn't tell Well let me surprise you, which is that when you're very good at a game, it's incredibly irritating to lose because your ally sucks, or the enemy team are friends and didn't tell you. Learn to play, then come back.

Reply to Can people use cheats and hacks in demigod online? in Demigod Demigod Forums

I've just seen the method. Not going to link it here. Shall we say, .. .. just sigh. Who the hell decided that was a good idea?

Reply to Can people use cheats and hacks in demigod online? in Demigod Demigod Forums

That's not a hole at all. You've legitimately sent commands, and had their results processed. There's no glitch in that. It would also totally destroy the connection of the other players. This guy must be using an exploit in-game to generate the gold, because there's no way to insert code into the games of others. I've been reading the thread and the entire argument of Haree78 and DroopyTheDog is that maybe not everything is checked. Well, I've got news for you, which is that everythi

Reply to Application Error -- Game will not launch --*no webcam* in Demigod Technical Support Demigod Forums

A 9600GT shouldn't have consistent framerate problems unless you've cranked it up. You could have the audio issue. But as Dash said, without more information, we can do nothing. Or, in terms he probably can't, jack shit.

Reply to Stat cheating... either its real or a bug -- SD please take a look in Demigod Demigod Forums

Sylis, if you want to save any face, explain the stats he shows in the OP. How can you be recorded with three wins where everyone else in the game lost? Smells like an exploit to me, and that picture shows absolutely nothing, and can show nothing.

Reply to Looking for People to Help Make a Map... in Demigod Demigod Forums

Pretty much, we need an official mesh importer/exporter.

Reply to Remove gold for killing DGs in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

In further response, I have nothing against giving the killer gold per se. However at the moment it is ridiculous. I don't want every game to be Slaughter.

Reply to Remove gold for killing DGs in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

Removal is a bad idea, dying at level 1 or 2 can be easily overcome, I believe gold is decided by the killer's level and you only get around 600 in the beginning of the game, which will be an advantage but nothing huge. I wouldn't mind a bit of a decrease however. UB weak? Haha you've no clue what you're saying there. That's totally rofl, because gold is decided by the killed's level.

Reply to Hypothesis: Sedna is the absolute best demigod in 1v1 in Demigod Strategies Demigod Forums

I'm sorry, wait, you used the rankings? Fail.

Reply to PREMADES ARE CHEATING in Demigod Multiplayer Demigod Forums

Premades shouldn't happen in custom games because there's no reasonable alternative.. let's be honest, playing Pantheon's much worse. Fact is, if you've got a premade, then put it in the title so other premades join or only people who want to play a premade. It's not a big thing to ask for people to warn their potential opponents that they're pre-arranged.