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I was in the Worldographer kickstarter, but haven't done much with it. I still do most of my maps with paper-n-pencil, unless I'm publishing. Joe (author) has stated that Cityographer functionality will be rolled into it soon.
Keep going on yours -- there's always room for a better program.
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I DM an AD&D campaign for my sons, been doing it since they were young. Currently I play in my elder son's 5E campaign (yeah, been playing long enough I grew my own DM! ), although he's thinking of started a Call of Cthulhu campaign -- never played that before, but I'm open to trying.
If you want new material for D&D, try & Magazine: https://and-mag.com/
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Ho.. nice!
I sent you an email through the CodeProject email, hopefully you'll get it!
Feel free to respond if you are interested in testing an early preview in January!
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Yeah, you've got the same basic problem as Blender -- a context-sensitive user interface. Those are always hard to use because there's no clues about where you need to go to get the tool you want to use next.
A better UI would be to provide groups of controls for each layer. Display all the groups, but disable the ones you can't use at the moment. Display the groups in some manner reminiscent of the ordering of the layers. Since there's probably a lot of them, you'll need to figure out some way to shrink (but not completely hide) the disabled groups of tools.
Hope that helps.
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Oh... damn I don't have Blender! Although.. it is free I think, right? I should check it out...
You gave me some idea though...
I think i might have an (additional) layer drop down in the tool sections where is also display all tools for each layers
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Yeah, Blender is free. As you learn it, notice that all the tutorials are given in terms of hot-key sequences. To experience the world's worst user interface, try to do them without using any hot key sequences. It is possible -- everything available from a hot key is available someplace on a menu -- but its really difficult to figure out how to get to the menu with the entry you want on it.
Teaching myself 3DSMax and 3D modeling concepts at the same time was a piece of cake compared to figuring out how to find the menu entry that would let me do what I wanted to do in Blender.
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Yeah.. I'd like to avoid that kind of user experience!
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If you glue a rodent to your upper lip, is that a mousetache?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And then if you accidentally swallow it...
...is it a mouse stash?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
modified 10-Dec-18 11:10am.
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Make sure the rodent is dead!
Muhammad Umair
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Won't that make it smell rather a lot?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, I smell a rat here
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Yes, make sure that it is old enough.
Muhammad Umair
www.linesperday.com
Learn great things about programmers, programming and object oriented design
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That comment has a (NSFW) double meaning in Norwegian...
"Mouse", in Norwegian, is a slang term for certain female body parts.
The mouse should be at least 16 years old, if you want to touch it with your lips.
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I don't know how that Vole turn out, but what the hell! Gopher it!
Ravings en masse^ |
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You try it first. You can be the guinea pig. Hopefully it doesn’t look too ratty.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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That would be a shrewd move.
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Personally, I prefer a small piece of black tape. There's a little store in West LA that specializes in this sort of thing, but all they ever give me is lip service.
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REDUCTION?
Anagram of "INTRODUCE", and a thickened sauce is a reduction.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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First post in many many years... and things have changed.
He has my good looks, my dislike of mornings and a better English accent... him being English and me French - it's tense during the 6 nations.
And he is my son, 14 of age... but probably already more mature than I ever was.
He has been learning Python at school for a year or so - that and pseudo-code.
He now wants to have a go at programming games. And he'd like a book for Christmas. I am a C++ programmer but I have not touched game programming since the days of Oric 1, Zx spectrum and Atari 800 when I programmed in Basic (ahem if this comes out, I know it's you!) and (some) assembler.
What should I advise him to read and learn?
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This book[^].
The main site has several other books online for free, but this I feel is the first book to read and implement.
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BadJerry wrote: What should I advise him to read and learn?
The many, many horror stories about crunch time at game development companies.
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