RPG as first game?

[Torahteen]

Oh, okay. Sorry if I sounded impatient.

[seph]

I only read a few posts but I thought I should mention this:

It's a good idea to start off with crappy generic PP256 graphics you made yourself, while getting the engine to work properly. Then later, put spicy ones in their place.

[Torahteen]

I am using extremely crappy graphics just to make the engine, that way, when Zack is done I can just replace mine. One question, can you DIMension arrays in subs?

[adosorken]

Only if they will be local to the SUB (aka only used in that SUB). Otherwise, you can REDIM arrays in a SUB but not DIM them if they're going to be used outside of a SUB (use DIM SHARED at the module level for an array that can be used all throughout your program).

Code:

' array demo! :)
DIM SHARED array1(5) AS INTEGER ' this can be accessed anywhere
DIM array2(5) AS INTEGER ' this can only be used at the main level

SUB mySub
DIM array3(5) AS INTEGER ' this can only be used within mySub
REDIM array1(30) AS INTEGER ' this resizes array1 which was already made
END SUB

[na_th_an]

If you are using '$DYNAMIC you have to ERASE the arrays you create inside subs/functions before exiting the sub/function, unless you define them as STATIC.

[Torahteen]

Hey Crono? What is pp25 .put files? I haven't heard of those. I need someone to make the tiles, for it would appear the Zack is unable to.

[adosorken]

A pp256 .put file is a sprite array stored in BSAVE format.

[Torahteen]

Oh, so basically what Zack was going to do.