http://www.luaye.com Blog, images and projects: Feed luaye.gif http://www.luaye.com 80 35 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:47:07 +0200 http://playfish.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/a-letter-to-our-fans/]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:47:07 +0200 Red5's RTMPT but it went a bit complicated. Here is the link to the game: http://luaye.com/battlesrus/ There is no computer players so you really need to either get someone else to play with you are you just make 2 windows and join your own game. MORE IMPORTANTLY: It is an UNFINISHED project! How to play? - You command your own coloured units - You can control them by selecting them and clicking on where you want them to move to. - Drag select (or shif select) to select multiple units. - Your units will automatically shoot at nearly enemy units. - Double click on your main building to make new units. - Currently there is no 'game over' condition, i.e. it will never end. - Just refresh the page to exit :) I stopped working on this game because I didn't feel like there is anything new in this game. I was almost remaking a game in flash that's already out there in non-flash platform. I needed to stop and re-think of a better concept to at least be different from others. I am in overall satisfied with the experiment. I managed to learn several things from this: - RTMPT mainly remote shared objects - Path finding (A*) - AI (such as units knowing their surrounding and shooting at enemies) - UI for multiple unit controls - "Fog of War" effect (where you can only see nearby enviroment of your own units) - Speed optimisation - A bit of java coding to manage Red5 side, (assigning user ids, lobby instances and clearing up finished games, etc) ]]> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:52:14 +0100 If you dare... download UPDATE: I take back my negative statement. I managed to connect from flash (of any domain/sandbox) to AIR. The trick was to add _ (underscore) at the beginning of connection name, and flash treat it as a shared/all domain connection. Update download of this (v2.1) will be available soon in Console projects page: http://code.google.com/p/flash-console/]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:44:02 +0200 What is it?: Flash runs in a single thread. Which means if you execute an intensive script, flash would lag/un-respond until your script finishes. You will want to spread the process over a number of frames to avoid this lag. This class allows you to call a function over and over again while keeping the frameRate and interface response fairly stable and also avoid falling into script timeout. Example use: I used this for 'path finding' which can take between 10ms to 1000ms (depending on map size). I don't want user to lag out every time they choose a path. Instead I trade it off by taking 1-10 frames for path to be found. In an arcade style game, I needed to pre render the background + static objects into tiled bitmaps. Some long levels takes quite a long time to render so using Thread lets me spread the process and have a smoother 'building' screen animation (rather than a stucked/lagged screen). When you shouldn't use: - If you want the outcome of the process straight away, this will not always delivery - because it will spread your function calls over a number of frames if needed. To be careful: - This class DOES NOT stop the function from excuting half way through. It only spreads the time between each function call (when needed). - If your process is not only a 'loop' you could make a function that manage the sequence in which it should execute by looking at 'steps' to know which step of thread you are on. - You can call multiple Threads to execute at the same time - However each thread does not share 'givenTime' with others so you will need to manage it for better processing spread. Example Code: Example below is using Thread to increament an integer 'n' up to 500,000 giving 20 ms per frame to excute (it let go a frame when 20ms is passed). Change countUpTo var if you are getting 1-2 frames/threadStep - your machine must be fast then! import com.luaye.utils.thread.Thread; var countUpTo:int = 500000; var traceEvery:int = 20000; new Thread(stepFun, {n:0}, false, 20); function stepFun(thread:Thread):void{ var vars:Object = thread.vars; vars.n++; if(vars.n%traceEvery == 0){ trace("n = ", vars.n, ", threadStep = ", thread.threadSteps); } if(vars.n >= countUpTo){ // need to call end() to stop executing. thread.end(); trace("Ended process after "+thread.threadSteps+" frames/threadSteps"); } } Source: Click here Happy coding!]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:27:16 +0200 [Ring]]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:32:34 +0200