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More changes to come:
Players - I want them instantiated at the beginning of game. (Will need a method to notify views somehow)
While out of game (or between games in a match) only a light class will exist (think of it as how cardprinted is related to card) - this class is going to be a key to get (from a map) player's performance in each match and statistics (to develop it futher up into achievements). That lightweight players should someday evolve into players connected to the game table (server)

Hope this will help eliminate AllZone.getHuman/ComputerPlayer near calls to newGame() so that an arbitrary set of players can start the game.


About current AI.
It was developed to play against humanPlayer. I added final Player ai to a lot of AI methods so that the whole system will play for ai player passed as parameter against whoever ai.getOpponent() returns.
I have no idea on how to advance it to multiplayer environment... maybe ai.getOpponent() should return a most hated player? (given an aggro list is managed by AiPlayer)

Doublestrike wrote:@moomarc, mostly - would people mind if the specially styled button pictures were removed?

I'm talking about the ones like on the win/lose screen, the "continue", etc. They'll be replaced by a more button-y button, throughout the UI.

Is anyone strongly in favor of keeping that look?

 
I can live without the stylized buttons.

Doublestrike wrote:Is anyone strongly in favor of keeping that look?

Strongly? No. Like Chris, I could live without them.

But I do think they look classy. They make the game look more...professional.

Doublestrike wrote:@moomarc, mostly - would people mind if the specially styled button pictures were removed?

Like the other's before me, I can live without them, although I do feel that they sometimes brought a skin together. The Simpsons skin for instance will likely look a bit silly with regular buttons, but then again I haven't seen what you have in mind.

Doublestrike wrote:OK all finished. I think it's working properly but there are probably some corner cases I may have missed (hopefully not).

Thanks Doublestrike.

I'll do some testing with it and see how things go. Just glancing at the code, I think some of the logic may be off (specific example, lethal damage is never assigned to everyone first. It's only done one combatant at a time). But now that it looks prettier, I should just be able to fix the logic back to how I setup the popup a few releases ago.

Max mtg wrote:About current AI.
It was developed to play against humanPlayer. I added final Player ai to a lot of AI methods so that the whole system will play for ai player passed as parameter against whoever ai.getOpponent() returns.
I have no idea on how to advance it to multiplayer environment... maybe ai.getOpponent() should return a most hated player? (given an aggro list is managed by AiPlayer)

Even a random opponent should be fine for the start. I'm willing to go through the AI functions once testing is possible.

Hopefully a simple question - how can I tell from a Card object if it is under the influence of a global artifact (e.g. Meekstone)?

Same question for a global enchantment (e.g. Propaganda).

Alternatively, is there a way to do it going the other direction - that is, Meekstone "is enchanting" [card, card, card]?

Card.getEnchantedBy() only works for local enchantments.

Can someone who knows the card API help me out a bit here?

Doublestrike wrote:Hopefully a simple question - how can I tell from a Card object if it is under the influence of a global artifact (e.g. Meekstone)?

Same question for a global enchantment (e.g. Propaganda).

Alternatively, is there a way to do it going the other direction - that is, Meekstone "is enchanting" [card, card, card]?

Card.getEnchantedBy() only works for local enchantments.

Can someone who knows the card API help me out a bit here?

You can access continuous static effects with "AllZone.getStaticEffects()", they store a list of affected cards but they don't have a source card yet (because the game rules do not care). It would be easy to add one though.

Propaganda is not a continuous static effect and does not need to create a list of affected cards.

EDIT: Done. If you have a static effect se use "se.getAffectedCards()" and "se.getSource()" to get the information you want.

Thanks Sloth, but I must be doing something wrong. I test with meekstone and getStaticEffects().getStateBasedMap() but there's nothing in the list...

What I'm trying to do is finish off the targeting arcs code. To draw an arc, of course, I need a pair of interacting cards.

Perhaps the better question is, what effects and abilities can this be used on? So far, single target enchantments and combat is all I've found. I'd like to include global stuff...possible?

Doublestrike wrote:Thanks Sloth, but I must be doing something wrong. I test with meekstone and getStaticEffects().getStateBasedMap() but there's nothing in the list...

Try the new AllZone.getStaticEffects().getStaticEffects().

NOTE: Some sources of static effects will not be on the battlefield.
A lot of static effects only affect the source itself.
Most auras and equipments have static effects affecting the card they are attached to.

EDIT: And don't use Meekstone for testing. Use Crusade or something.

OK thanks, will implement tomorrow morning.

It sounds like a lot of what I'm calling "global" effects can't be traced via targeting arcs for now, so I'll stick with what I got.

I'll be making some aesthetic updates here and there to the view portions of the game. Control is separated so this shouldn't cause (m)any gameplay bugs.

Shouldn't break anyone's build but cross-platform painting has a lot of gotchas, so I'll post changes here to help nail down the issues.

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First up is the home screen menu, r17504. I had to slightly adjust a few skins for readability (default, firebloom, rebel) but not very noticeably.

Known problem: on small screens if all menus are expanded, overflows off screen. Trying to avoid an ugly scrollbar, looking for better solution (open to suggestions, hopefully with a picture).

Max mtg wrote:More changes to come:
Players - I want them instantiated at the beginning of game. (Will need a method to notify views somehow)

Just noticed this. The method to notify a view is found in its controller and is called update().

You can access any controller directly using its singleton, or via any view using getLayoutControl().

These methods are documented in IVDoc and ICDoc (interface for doc view, interface for doc control).

Next aesthetic update: a new button style.

Can be seen/tested in the Constructed submenu. Hopefully no strange behavior.

Doublestrike wrote:Next aesthetic update: a new button style.

Can be seen/tested in the Constructed submenu. Hopefully no strange behavior.

 
Looks good from what I can tell. Appears to be more buttony in appearance.

Doublestrike wrote:I'll be making some aesthetic updates here and there to the view portions of the game. Control is separated so this shouldn't cause (m)any gameplay bugs.

Shouldn't break anyone's build but cross-platform painting has a lot of gotchas, so I'll post changes here to help nail down the issues.

 
Thank you and it looks good on my Mac for the most part. The title label for the views look off. The Exit Forge button did not work and I had to quit forge using a different method.