I'm making significant progress on the Graphics and Engine programming right now. I already have a new release ready. Here's a screenshot:


I added moving, firing, HP display, move range display, and menus
I also added property and city classes, though they need work
Lastly, I fixed a bunch of bugs

Here's the source:
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Note: one of those Infantry units is actually an Artillery in disguise, since I still haven't gotten that worked out yet...

How should we release these things in the future? Is this good enough for now?

I think this is good enough for now.

And I've got it working this time That's looking great and it generally works. The only problem is that the artillery can move and fire, and counter, but you probably already know that.

If you'd like them, I have the red attack tile and green movement tile on my PC that I can post, rather than the bright green and blue squares.

Good progress.

congratulations, you just surpassed RWD in therms of actual work!

Seriously though, keep up the good work.

Actually, any graphics related to the main battle screen (esp. units and tiles) that I can get my hands on would be very nice. I'm currently using 16x16 sprites for the tiles and units (this could be changed, and I'm going to try to allow scaling). The way I'm going to code it doesn't allow sprites that are too wide, but allows sprites that are too tall (HQ, Cities, etc.). Sprites that are too small are less useful too (I use the 16x16 dimensions to align things).

I think need to figure out how the Graphics2D class works to do a few important things: transparency/translucency, scaling, and palette modification. I'll figure that out soon.

uuh.. move and fire, yes, I'm working on that... but counter, it should not. in fact... I've tested that... I think...

Odd. It does when I do it, if you attack with the artillery and leave the infantry on 1 or 2, then attack the artillery with that damaged infantry, it gets taken out.

same here, I wonder what's causing that...

My guess is that the artillery thinks it can counter even though it shouldn't be able to.

This is really excellent progress. I have a question: Can we release it outside of CW, or should it be kept quiet?

I'd say go ahead. This part of the project is open source, but be sure to link to the boards.

here, how do i run it?

arg! wall of text+tired eskimo=arg! it appears i have J2SE, but not on my computer. it's there, but it's not. how bewlidering

EDIT: never mind. but when they updated the java.sun site, they could've updated the tutorial as well

EDIT2: i followed that tutorial, but when i downloaded the thing it tells you to, it freezes and stops responding. god i hate my pc

Nope, they couldn't. This was used in my CS class for fall semester last year. Sort of hard and useless to update

Sorry you seem to have trouble. Not to worry people, the real versions to be played will be easy "double-click to use" applications. This is still in the framework stage, so it isn't on our priority list right now to do that yet. Well, it is, but as you can see, it's quite low.

good. any more than that these days seems to crash my pc

If they're on a plane already, it might be too late.

I downloaded the Netbeans compiler and the development version of Java, and recompiled it. It works, but the graphics aren't showing up for some reason, and it doesn't seem to be detecting the damage table. Besides that, though, it works. Good job!

I would like to know how to run it as well. I already have the needed java softwhere I just want this little alpha to work so I can see what it does

This seems to be a common problem. It means the files aren't in your working directory (with your .class files). There are 2 quick and dirty ways to solve it:
1. put the data files in your working directory (for netbeans, the project folder under build\classes\)
or
2. change the line File f = new File("image.png"); to File f = new File("C:\\place\\I\\keep\\the\\files\","image.png"); wherever it appears (currently in BattleScreen and BaseDMG)

I'll work on a better way for the next release

Damn Mac OS X 10.3 and lack of Java 1.5 support, not allowing me to use the scanner class and getting compiler failures!

ARGH. <_<;

(And yes, Retsej, I did try your CS department's hack)

I just found a better way. It turns out that NetBeans automatically .jar's the binaries after every build. You can just unzip this to a directory and run the jar file (on my computer I just double click it, some of you may need to run: java -jar "Custom_wars.jar").
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I did some more work since last time. Notably, I added classes that load the graphics for the units and terrain. You can actually see things properly now! Here are the sources for those of you who are interested:
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screenshot:


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For those of you who don't know yet:
No mouse support
Keys
w-up
a-left
s-down
d-right
m-menu
enter-action key (A button in AW)

Yep. I get an error message. I assume I won't be able to run this until I upgrade to 10.4 and get Java 1.5

Yup, pretty much. Either that or if we stop using the Scanner class. That might be possible, since it's just a matter of convenience. However:
1. This is a low priority
2. We might start using other similar classes in the future

Do you have another computer to try it on?

Yeah, but the PC doesn't have Java on it at all at the moment, I'm out of download limit, and I need to go to work soon anyhow.

I'm aiming to get myself a new computer soon anyhow. This one is quite literally dying.

Works for me now.

Eh, I got an error.
What should I do if it says

?

That's really odd, because it definitely has a Main class. How are you running it? Are you using the .jar or the .class files? Do you have the latest version of Java?

Maybe it's that I don't have the latest version of java ...

don't worry, I have no doubt that we'll release the alpha, in .jar form before long.

Alpha08 is ready
Sources:
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JAR:
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Screenshot:

This time you can use large maps and scroll around. I tried a 200x300 map on an older version, and it slowed the computer terribly. I rewrote the draw code to only draw things in the window, and now it runs smoothly on any size map.

Can someone give me the latest version of java ...

www.java.com FTW!

Uh, when I try to run the alpha, all I get is a gray screen.. What should I do to run this?

Ok, custom wars thing worked..with a blank screen -.-'..

Sounds like your images didn't load.

For the jar:
Put the images and text files in the same directory as the jar
For the source:
Put the images and text files in the same directory as your sources/project (depending on your IDE)

Well, it's coming along... Although you can only move the units around, not do anything else yet..

I have no clue what I'm doing >.>..

It's looking good, with movement costs working aswell. Have you made any progress with why the artillery is countering? It's odd because it's out of the artillery's range aswell. I don't know how it's coded, but it could be that counters are defined as counterattacking when a unit is directly next to it only if the unit can attack it perhaps? Coz an artillery can attack an infantry, so the game could be thinking, "that infantry is attacking me directly, and I can attack infantry, so I shall counter," which would disregard range.

Yes, I got it working! Shaky, put all the source files in the same file as the .Jar, that worked for me. Might only have to put the image files in, I dunno. I have no clue what I'm doing either.

MG found where the counterattack problem was. It turned out that he had fixed it earlier, and I accidentally reintroduced it while trying to cut down on code. It's been fixed, and the next release will have the fix.

Uhm... .Jar?

(What???)

How to Run CW Alpha in 3 easy steps:
1. If you have Windows, download Java here: http://www.java.com/en/download/windows_xpi.jsp
if you don't have windows, find the right version on http://www.java.com/
2. Unzip this zip to a directory:
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make sure the images and .txt files are in the same directory as the .jar
3. Double click on Custom_Wars.jar
If double clicking doesn't work: open the command prompt, go to the directory , and type: java -jar Custom_Wars.jar