General Discussion

[CherryWood]

Basic displays of the sorting/tracking methods of Arena, these screens will be improved even for Alpha:

Great!
I can't wait to add some NPC teams already     


If I ever get to stuff like that... so much to do and so little time 

[Xela]

Great!
I can't wait to add some NPC teams already     


If I ever get to stuff like that... so much to do and so little time 

How are girlsmeets coming?

[CherryWood]

How are girlsmeets coming?

Terribly slow like everything I do...
I'm still in a phase of adding texts and I need a few more days to get it into state when I would be at least somewhat satisfied with it.  I didn't get to the logic yet, so it not playable in the slightest. (so if we are in a hurry, someone else could do it)

[Xela]

Terribly slow like everything I do...
I'm still in a phase of adding texts and I need a few more days to get it into state when I would be at least somewhat satisfied with it.  I didn't get to the logic yet, so it not playable in the slightest. (so if we are in a hurry, someone else could do it)

Nah, there is no rush. Arena will take some time and we'll have a lot to do afterwards. Don't get to hang up on logic, we'll have to rebalance that just like everything else, just go with whatever feels right.

[DarkTl]

Meanwhile I'm busy with Touhou pack. It's extremely popular (in Japan) title, so I expect it to be the largest of all my packs both in terms of size and the number of characters.

[Xela]

Meanwhile I'm busy with Touhou pack. It's extremely popular (in Japan) title, so I expect it to be the largest of all my packs both in terms of size and the number of characters.

Which one of us is in Japan?

I am still struggling with decision on how to handle NPCs (Make one NPC class to cover everything or to split them in Arena/Interaction/Story types and so on). We'll have to discuss pros/cons of that at some point... I've started writing code for matches build-up for the arena.

[DarkTl]

I never heard about this title until I came across it at gelbooru and then read about it in wiki. It's amazing how many pics there are for each of the characters (20-60 thousands). I did not even venture to search for it at pixiv, even I don't have that much time (at least +30 thousands for every girl).

As for npcs, I have no idea why we couldn't use one general class for everything, don't see any cons there. I believe we either should use girls that don't have enough pics for a pack as npcs, or simply use random ones.

[Xela]

As for npcs, I have no idea why we couldn't use one general class for everything, don't see any cons there. I believe we either should use girls that don't have enough pics for a pack as npcs, or simply use random ones.

General class would require quite a bit of resources/effort to create every NPC, while smaller classes enable faster creation of just what's required for a particular function.

[CherryWood]

I never heard about this title until I came across it at gelbooru and then read about it in wiki. It's amazing how many pics there are for each of the characters (20-60 thousands). I did not even venture to search for it at pixiv, even I don't have that much time (at least +30 thousands for every girl).

You didn't know about Touhou?  Blasphemy! 
And yes, that fandom is really something.  Serious stuff you're getting yourself into. I believe that only Miku alone has more pics than Touhou girls  . Last time I was creating a touhou girl she took me over 20 hours...


I know I will be creating some girls from touhou too (Shameimaru Aya and Konpaku Youmu), but with my pace it could take a long while before I get to that.


Anyway, Good luck!
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Oh, one think: Does anyone of you know a good site for getting pixxx.com edits? (not siterips)  I was using a blog with nice sorting and database for that on http://hentaiimages.centerblog.net/ but it was deleted

[DarkTl]

Let's see, "The Touhou Project is a series of 2D vertically-scrolling danmaku shooting games" according to wiki. I never played such games, and never will. They also don't have an anime of some kind, except for 2 OVAs.
So, they were totally out of my range of interests until now 

Does anyone of you know a good site for getting pixxx.com edits?

Sorry, I don't know of any substitute for it either.



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I found recently an addon for firefox, "context menu image saver". It's very handy thing when you saving a lot of pics, like when you making a pack, for example. It has quite flexible settings, and you can save images with one click instead of default saving menu.
 

[Xela]

I found recently an addon for firefox, "context menu image saver". It's very handy thing when you saving a lot of pics, like when you making a pack, for example. It has quite flexible settings, and you can save images with one click instead of default saving menu.

I used a decent save script for FF in the past but new update broke it and it never recovered, I've also failed to find a substitute. I'll be sure to check it out, maybe make a pack myself 

[CherryWood]

Addons? I'm using just 3 shortcuts
ctrl + mouse click (open new background tab / save image)
ctrl + tab (move to next tab)
ctrl + w (close tab)
and I'm constantly waiting for pages to load or getting messages like "please slow down - too many requests" on most boorus   
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@xela: Oh, ok..... I suddenly feel totally oldschool now 

[Xela]

Addons? I'm using just 3 shortcuts
ctrl + mouse click (open new background tab / save image)
ctrl + tab (move to next tab)
ctrl + w (close tab)
and I'm constantly waiting for pages to load or getting messages like "please slow down - too many requests" on most boorus 

There are scripts that for all tabs in a second

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I am gonna call it a night. Challenge code for the Arena seems to be working, I'll write the accept challenge for A.I. and maybe player as well + simple GUI tomorrow.

[Pieman]

Hey I just found this project and I'd love to help. I'm a game designer and a programmer,but I don't know python. It can't be harder to learn than c++ was. 

[Xela]

Hey I just found this project and I'd love to help.

Help is always welcome

I'm a game designer

Any particular area of expertise? Maybe you can work on something specific that you are familiar with and enjoy?

and a programmer,but I don't know python. It can't be harder to learn than c++ was. 

It's less complicated than C++, still it's a whole different language. Just download the repo and take a look at it, maybe find something you're interested in? While Python might take weeks/month to learn and get used to, I've seen people coming from programming/IT background who figured out RenPy script in matter of hours. If designing some NPCs/Interactions is something that sounds appealing, you could prolly start right off the bat.