Milona Games/Milona Software: "Project Scarlet" development

[Pharap]

@filmote

I am pretty sure the TeamARG version did not do it.

I think they had more than one converter, one did normal Sprites conversion and one did sprites plus mask conversion.
(But my memory isn’t the best, so I might have imagined it.)

@Mypka_MaxCat

Team ARG’s supposed demise

Retirement rather than demise, though it’s very much reality.
Even their website is gone now. What remains is forks and copies of their code.

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Back on topic, I’m beginning to lean towards “the drawPlusMask bug is back”.

But I can’t really confirm that without code that’s actually in a compileable state and can thus be probed…

[filmote (Simon)]

@Pharap

But I can’t really confirm that without code that’s actually in a compileable state and can thus be probed…

Yes … for someone who wanted to collaborate at the start of the thread, he is being very secretive with the whole code.

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

Sorry about that…
Which other part do you need?
Here’s the GitHub I just made of it:

MypkaMax/ProjectScarletArdu

[filmote (Simon)]

Does that code even compile? It doesn’t for me.

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

Isn’t there an option to download those files? You can remove the README file for that.

[Pharap]

Adding #include "box.h" to player.h fixes the missing declarations.

But when I compile there’s no sign of the sprite rendering bug…

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

@Pharap

there’s no sign of the sprite rendering bug…

Oh. I commented the animation commands in the file I uploaded…

[filmote (Simon)]

Your images render fine …

The whole thing works when you change …

    if(!arduboy.pressed(LEFT_BUTTON) || !arduboy.pressed(RIGHT_BUTTON))
    {
      walkframe = -1;
    }

to

    if(!arduboy.pressed(LEFT_BUTTON) && !arduboy.pressed(RIGHT_BUTTON))
    {
      walkframe = -1;
    }

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

Okay, that solves the frame part and the mirroring part, but that doesn’t fix the bottom half.
Except that it’s clear the images are not corrupted.

[filmote (Simon)]

I am not sure what you mean as it appears to work fine.

This will be a lot easier of you simply tells us what you think is wrong with the code, what you have done to test it and publish working, compileable code.

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

This is getting weird. In your GIF the sprite looks like it’s working great but with the mirrored version rendered behind it.
Would you mind explaining what the “b” is about?

[filmote (Simon)]

Ignore the b. It’s an artefact if my debugging.

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

For some reason, on my build it causes the player character’s body to glitch out.
But that’s not the case in your build. Are we using different emulators or did you do something to the code?

[Pharap]

Did a bit of clean up:

#ifndef PLAYER_H
#define PLAYER_H
#include "box.h"
#include "scroll.h"
int direction = 0;
int walkframe = -1;
int idleframe = 0;
int ground = 0;
int pole = 0;
void player()
{
  //arduboy.fillCircle(playerx, playery, 32, WHITE);
  if(arduboy.pressed(LEFT_BUTTON))
  {
    playerx = playerx - 1;
    direction = 1;
    walkframe = walkframe+1;
    idleframe = 0;
  }

  if(arduboy.pressed(RIGHT_BUTTON))
  {
    playerx = playerx + 1;
    direction = 0;
    walkframe = walkframe+1;
    idleframe = 0;
  }

  if(!arduboy.pressed(LEFT_BUTTON) && !arduboy.pressed(RIGHT_BUTTON))
  {
    walkframe = -1;
  }

  if((arduboy.pressed(UP_BUTTON)) && pole>0)
  {
    playery = playery - 1;
  }

  if (pole <= 0)
  {
    playery = playery + 1;
  }
  
  if (playerx<8)
  {
    playerx = 8;
  }

  if (playerx>208)
  {
    playerx = 208;
  }

  if (walkframe>15)
  {
    walkframe = 0;
  }

  if (walkframe<0)
  {
    idleframe = idleframe + 1;
  }

  arduboy.print(direction);
}

void playergfx()
{
  if(direction == 0)
  {
    if(ground >= 1)
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunright_plus_mask, (walkframe / 4));
    }

    if(ground <= 0)
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunright_plus_mask, 0);
    }

    if ((walkframe < 0) && (idleframe < 40) && (ground >= 1))
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxstandright_plus_mask, (walkframe / 4));
    }

    if ((idleframe >= 40) && (ground >= 1))
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxidle_plus_mask, 0);
    }
  }

  if(direction == 1)
  {
    if(ground >= 1)
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunleft_plus_mask, (walkframe / 4));
    }

    if(ground <= 0)
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunleft_plus_mask, 0);
    }

    if ((walkframe < 0) && (idleframe < 40) && (ground >= 1)) 
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxstandleft_plus_mask, (walkframe / 4));
    }

    if ((idleframe >= 40) && (ground >= 1)) 
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxidle_plus_mask, 0);
    }
  }

  if(arduboy.pressed(LEFT_BUTTON) && (ground >= 1))
  {
    Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunleft_plus_mask, (walkframe / 4));
  }

  if(arduboy.pressed(RIGHT_BUTTON) && (ground >= 1))
  {
    Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunright_plus_mask, (walkframe / 4));
  }

  if (direction == 0)
  {
    if ((walkframe >= 0) && (idleframe < 40) && (ground >= 1))
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunright_plus_mask, (walkframe / 4));
    }

    if ((walkframe < 0) && (idleframe < 40) && (ground >= 1))
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxstandright_plus_mask, 0);
    }
    else if ((idleframe >= 40) && (ground >= 1))
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxidle_plus_mask, 0);
    }
    else if (ground <= 0)
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunright_plus_mask, 0);
    }
  }

  if (direction == 1)
  {
    if ((walkframe >= 0) && (idleframe < 40) && (ground >= 1)) 
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunleft_plus_mask, (walkframe / 4));
    }
    if ((walkframe < 0) && (idleframe < 40) && (ground >= 1))
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxstandleft_plus_mask, 0);
    }
    else if ((idleframe >= 40) && (ground >= 1))
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxidle_plus_mask, 0);
    }
    else if (ground <= 0)
    {
      Sprites::drawPlusMask((playerx - 8) - (camerax - 64), (playery - 8) - cameray, maxrunleft_plus_mask, 0);
    }
  }

}
#endif

Now it runs mostly as intended.

scarlettower.ino.hex (35.4 KB)

I expect there’s a lot of redundancy going on though given how many Sprites::drawPlusMasks there are.

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@Mypka_MaxCat, are your libraries up to date?
And are you building your .hex with the Arduino IDE or Project ABE?

[MLXXXp (Scott)]

@Pharap

I think Team ARG’s will be dead now though.

I’ve posted some instructions on how to use the Team A.R.G. tools from downloaded copies.

TEAM a.r.g. online graphic tools

The Team A.R.G. graphic tools are no longer available from the links in the original post. However, they can be used from a local copy. download the desired tool as a .zip file from the Team A.R.G Museum on GitHub: Image Converter Spritesheet Converter Tilesheet Converter Extract the .zip file somewhere. In your browser, open an “open file” dialog. For Firefox and Chrome the Ctrl+o keyboard shortcut can be used. Navigate to the directory tree that you extracted and open the index.htm file. …

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

@Pharap

And are you building your .hex with the Arduino IDE or Project ABE?

I built it on Project ABE’s integrated development environment. (ProjectABE should be updated more often…)
Also, how does this work on your build, but not on mine? That doesn’t make any sense.
Did you change other code too to get it? We used the same emulator to show the HEX file.

[Pharap]

@Mypka_MaxCat

how does this work on your build, but not on mine?

Presumably because I’m using the Arduino IDE* to compile my .hex, the same as @filmote.
(* Well, technically VSCode/VSCodium, but they’re using the same Arduino IDE backend, so close enough.)

In which case it seems that the problem is either to do with the version of the compiler or the version of Arduboy2 used by ProjectABE.
Given the similarity to a bug that has since been eliminated from the Arduboy2 library,
I suspect it’s more likely to be an out-of-date Arduboy2 version rather than a compiler bug.

(I don’t actually know how to compile with ProjectABE so I have no clue how to test that theory.)

@Mypka_MaxCat

Did you change other code too to get it?

In the first comment where I reported that the sprite rendering was working:

Milona Games/Milona Software: "Project Scarlet" development

Adding #include "box.h" to player.h fixes the missing declarations. But when I compile there’s no sign of the sprite rendering bug…

Adding #include "box.h" was literally the only change I made at that point.

I’ve made other changes since, but even before those the rendering was working fine.

The only way I’ve been able to experience the bug is by loading the .hex you posted earlier onto my Arduboy.
All the .hex files I’ve generated from the code on your GitHub using the Arduino IDE(/VSCodium) have not had the rendering bug.

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

@Pharap

I don’t actually know how to compile with ProjectABE so I have no clue how to test that theory.

You can go to ProjectABE website, create a project, and press the “Build” button when done. This builds the HEX file on it.
Your build works great on the emulator. I can’t get the code cleanup to work when I paste it though…

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

Merry christmas! I just started working on the HTML5 version of Milona Scarlet, so it can be released along with the Arduboy version.
Here is an artwork on DeviantArt:

Christmas Scarlet by MypkaMax on DeviantArt

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

Hello, folks! I’m coming back to the community to let you know how I’ve been doing with the HTML5 version. It’s going well so far. Also, how’s this title: Scarlet Arcade?