Fixing after the update

vinicity

Maybe add a deadzone to the analogue controls? That is usually very helpful for combating the dreaded drift...

AndyG1985

@vinicity I haven’t heard of that before. Do you mean like detecting where the player’s analog is and setting that as default?

DaddyJDM

I can recommend a "threshold" value for c.lx, c.ly, etc.

For example,
If abs(c.lx)>threshold then
// do action associated with c.lx

vinicity

@DaddyJDM said in Fixing after the update:

I can recommend a "threshold" value for c.lx, c.ly, etc.

For example,
If abs(c.lx)>threshold then
// do action associated with c.lx

That’s what I meant when talking about adding a deadzone.

The "joystick deadzone" is the area around the center of a joystick that does not respond to movement.

AndyG1985

I've now come to fix my Dizzy game and I'm hoping it's another simple fix! The overlay and text are all showing, but the game area is blank. Can anyone please help?

PickleCatStars

Have you went through putting all your refs in?

pianofire

@AndyG1985 Are you using setDrawTarget because you now need to make sure it is set back to the frameBuffer explicitly after drawing to an image (before update() did it automatically)

AndyG1985

No, I did try adding "setdrawtarget ( framebuffer )" after update as per the forum post but this didn't help. @toxibunny - sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by this.
(Btw, I'm looking to fix the much-smaller "Dizzy 4 Fuze" program since it's the same problem affecting both, and I can copy once it's figured out.)

pianofire

@AndyG1985 Previously some arguments had been passed to functions by reference. That is a pointer to the actual object was passed. This meant that if you changed the contents in the function the change was reflected outside as well. The patch changed this so that some things are now passed by value. This means that a copy is made that is local to the function. To make it behave as before you need to add the ref keyword in front of the argument definition.

function AFunction( arg1) 

becomes

function AFunction(ref arg1)

AndyG1985

Oh sorry, yes, as Dave already explained :). Well I've added "ref" to every function with arguments and added "setdrawtarget (framebuffer)" once each after "update()", "updatemap()" and "updatesprites()", and I'm afraid it's still the same.

pianofire

@AndyG1985 Do you want me to take a look?

AndyG1985

@pianofire That would be excellent :D
The code is 5G261NNDXH.
(You’ll notice the dialogue also starts when the game does - this will be an issue with the collision areas so I can sort that!)

pianofire

I have managed to get stuff to display by moving all of the drawing stuff to the end of the main loop:

loop
	clear()

	setspritecamera (camerax, cameray)
	
	setcolliders()
	
	screen()
	
	sleep(delay)
	   
	game()
	coins()
	inventory()
	movement()

	updatesprites()
	drawsprites()
	updatemap()
	drawmap()
	update()
repeat

Not sure why this is now an issue. Also there seem to be some transparency problems

AndyG1985

Wow that’s messed up! Thanks for trying.. it’s always something of a guessing game for me working out the order the main loop commands go in, and I’ve had a bit more of a play, but I guess the problems run deeper.

pianofire

@AndyG1985 Yes we need to get to the bottom of this because if there are more issues with moving to the new patch they need to be documented. Unfortunately I don't know what is is supposed to look like. I will downgrade my edev to the old version and have a look

AndyG1985

What a hero! Thanks for that. You may or may not need to put the main loop back in the order it was already in..

pianofire

@AndyG1985 No it still works with that order. I see what you mean now!

Willpowered

@AndyG1985 We've narrowed down the cause of why you're not seeing anything to line 162 of the shared program.

At the end of the printText function, change it to read setBlend(BLEND_MIX) instead of setBlend(0) and it should start displaying stuff.

pianofire

That is certainly an improvement!

AndyG1985

Fantastic, thanks both for your help