Pokemon! Attempt #3

[PortalGod]

Hey. I'm PortalGod, and you probably know that already. I recently decided to remake my old Pokemon gamemode from scratch (not that I have a choice, I lost all of the original files). You might remember the old version from [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1011100-Pokémon-gamemode]this thread[/url]. In all honesty, I'm pretty embarrassed of it. Since I'm a perfectionist, I couldn't keep passing by the pokemon folder in my gamemodes folder, and eventually got fed up. Contrary to the last two times, however, I have a (near) full understanding of GLua, and the resources to complete this. I've also decided to start with the harder, behind-the-scenes type stuff first. Unfortunately, this means I have very little to post. The reason I'm creating this thread now, and not when the gamemode is done, if not almost done, is because I want this to be a full log of my development process. So, after that wall of text, here we go.

[release]
[h2]Stuff that's done[/h2]
[QUOTE=PortalGod;31425991]I decided to give making a Pokemon gamemode another try. This time, doing the hard stuff first.

I've got all the move sets stored as usable data:

[img]http://puu.sh/3Pbp[/img]

And I've got functions worked out for drawing the pokemon sprites:

[img]http://puu.sh/3PbG[/img]

And it's all worked out on a spritesheet, so there's only one texture to download, instead of 4*151=604. The complete code for the above is:

[lua]
surface.SetDrawColor(255, 255, 255)
surface.DrawPokemonFront(16, 16, 64, 64, "kakuna") //x, y, w, h, name
surface.DrawPokemonBack(88, 16, 64, 64, 14) //all functions take pokemon names as well as IDs as an argument
surface.DrawPokemonIcon1(160, 16, 32, 32, 14)
surface.DrawPokemonIcon2(160, 48, 32, 32, 14)
[/lua]

Not really anything to show off about, but I wanted to share my progress and announce my gamemode.
Unfortunately, I have marching band camp (American Pie joke here) every weekday from noon to nine, which doesn't leave that much time for working on this. I'll still post whatever I get done, though.[/QUOTE]
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[release]
[h2]WIP stuff[/h2]
I'm working on getting all the base information for pokemon, like type and evolutions.

[img]http://puu.sh/3SW2[/img]

All I have to do now is shove it in a table, and save it as usable data.

Funny story about that, actually: I was using [url=http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bulbasaur_(Pokémon)]this page[/url] to sort through all the HTML to find the element that had the overview info, and I had to ask my friend for help with regex. He pointed out I could just use [url=http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/w/index.php?title=Bulbasaur_(Pok%C3%A9mon)&action=edit]this[/url], and it took 15 minutes to format it into usable code :v:
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[release]
[h2]To-do[/h2]
• Everything but the data
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So yeah. Leave any comments, CC, or expectations below, and I'll be sure to think about them.

[Jam]

It's great that your picking this back up. It seemed a very interesting idea to achieve within GMod back when you posted the original post.

[PortalGod]

Yeah, too bad I barely knew lua at that point. I'm hoping that since I'm doing the data first, (the point I had to stop at the first time), I can just blow through this. Also, why does it say I posted the OP with XP and IE? I don't have either installed..

[Thermadyle]

I can't wait to try this out, is it going to support multiplayer?

If it does, feel free to give me a message when you need someone to try out something.
Also, if you don't have the pokemon sounds/themes and you need them; I would gladly get them for you.

[PortalGod]

It's planned, yeah. I'll add you. Whatever happened to your hat gamemode? Haven't seen any updates on that in a while.

[CmdrMatthew]

Is this going to have giant maps? Or will it just be limited by normal source map dimensions with nothing making the map appear larger?

[PortalGod]

It doesn't seem like the source map dimensions would be a problem, but yeah, that might be something to consider.

What would you guys want in the map? Rate agree for something new, or disagree for a recreation of one of the pokemon games.

[tinu-c]

Yeah, looking good, hopefully this goes somewhere.

[Pugsworth]

[QUOTE=PortalGod;31468814]It doesn't seem like the source map dimensions would be a problem, but yeah, that might be something to consider.

What would you guys want in the map? Rate agree for something new, or disagree for a recreation of one of the pokemon games.[/QUOTE]

Mix.

Use the most popular or famous parts from the old games but also add new areas and such.

[CmdrMatthew]

[QUOTE=PortalGod;31468814]It doesn't seem like the source map dimensions would be a problem, but yeah, that might be something to consider.

What would you guys want in the map? Rate agree for something new, or disagree for a recreation of one of the Pokemon games.[/QUOTE] Create a new region, but keep the same basic workings as the latest Pokemon games and add some more stuff to make it more interesting.

[PortalGod]

Band camp is over, starting tomorrow, expect constant updates on progress.

[PortalGod]

Well, it took forever, but I finally got around to getting the data for evolutions, an overview of the pokemon, and the base stats. Progress from here on out may be slow, because I can't have gmod open for more than 15 minutes without my graphics drivers failing.

7197 lines of goodness:
[img]http://puu.sh/4ece[/img]

[The Advisor]

v/nice :golfclap:

I'm excited to hear more progress on this.

[KatNotDinner]

So am I! Speacially when coder is banned XD.

[DogLatrop]

[QUOTE=DogLatrop;31735396][t]http://puu.sh/4mEw[/t]

And here we gooooo

[editline]a[/editline]

Much better:

[img]http://puu.sh/4mW6[/img][/QUOTE]

[CmdrMatthew]

Looking awesome. Good luck with this! BTW: Are you PortalGod's alt?

[DogLatrop]

He gave me those to post, he's just a RL friend.

[DogLatrop]

I got garry's approval, my life is complete

[QUOTE=DogLatrop;31749256][QUOTE=garry;31748221]More plz[/QUOTE]

What I have done on the map so far:
[t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32605179/garrysmod/screenshots/pk_kanto0000.jpg[/t]

Details (there's no pokemon center or pokemart in the second screenshot because I have to scale them and stuff):
[t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32605179/garrysmod/screenshots/pk_kanto0001.jpg[/t] [t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32605179/garrysmod/screenshots/pk_kanto0002.jpg[/t]

Credit to [url=http://www.facepunch.com/members/286242-Plasma]Plasma[/url] for making the [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/927268-Pokemon-Map-Assets]models and materials[/url], and for giving me the max files to do my own stuff to them. He's awesome.[/QUOTE]

[hentie]

Is he going to being using some sort of tile editor?
Mapping something like pokemon in valve hammer seems sort of counter-productive.

[DogLatrop]

Using hammer. You made me realize that I should work on the gamemode stuff, instead of expanding the map, though. Thanks.

[wwlfr]

Wow this is great.

[greasyjamici]

Tracking. I really hope you finish this. Lots of potential.

[Stynax]

sick man hope this is finished

[CmdrMatthew]

I hope you finish this time. I look forward to playing this in multiplayer.

[Typhoonx10]

looks great

[KatNotDinner]

Hope it gets finished, has server with 10-20 players and doesn't die like most of the epic gamemodes.

[PortalGod]

School and band are taking up most of my time, leaving me with only 2 hours a day, most of that time, I don't feel like working on this. So, progress will be slow from here until November.

[PortalGod]

[QUOTE=PortalGod;31983533]Through hacky methods, I managed to make my own pause menu for my gamemode.

[img]http://puu.sh/4SnM[/img]

The code I used:

[lua]
FakeConsole:SetVisible(false)

local ConsoleOpen = false
local FakeConsoleOpen = false
function GM:HUDPaint()
ConsoleOpen = false
end

function GM:PostRenderVGUI()
if(ConsoleOpen) then
RunConsoleCommand("cancelselect")
FakeConsoleOpen = not FakeConsoleOpen
FakeConsole:SetVisible(FakeConsoleOpen)
end
ConsoleOpen = true
end
[/lua][/QUOTE]

[PortalGod]

Another update, mostly just for me.

[QUOTE=PortalGod;32096895]Made a metatable for my pokemon, which makes my life a whole lot easier.

[img]http://puu.sh/590V[/img]

The entire code to draw that is:
[lua]
for k,v in pairs(pokemon.GetAll()) do
surface.SetDrawColor(0, 0, 0)
surface.DrawOutlinedRect(-224 + (258*k), 16, 256, 64)
surface.SetDrawColor(255, 255, 255)
surface.DrawPokemonFront(-224 + (258*k), 16, 64, 64, v:GetName())
surface.SetTextColor(255, 255, 255)
surface.SetFont("defaultlarge")
surface.SetTextPos(-160 + (258*k), 24)
surface.DrawText("Name: "..v:GetName())
surface.SetTextPos(-160 + (258*k), 48)
surface.DrawText("Level: "..v:GetLevel())
surface.SetTextPos(-48 + (258*k), 24)
surface.DrawText("Real XP: "..v:GetXP())
surface.SetTextPos(-64 + (258*k), 48)
surface.DrawText("Draw XP: "..v:GetDrawXP())
surface.SetDrawColor(80, 104, 96)
surface.DrawRect(-220 + (258*k), 72, 248, 4)
surface.SetDrawColor(64, 200, 248)
surface.DrawRect(-220 + (258*k), 72, v:GetCurLevelXPFrac()*248, 4)
end[/lua]

And the best part, the code to create it:
[lua]
local Pikachu = Pokemon("pikachu")
Pokemon:AddXP(202)
[/lua]

All the functions I have so far:

Pokemon(Name or ID) //Create a new pokemon object
Pokemon:AddXP(XP) //Lerps the "fake" XP variable to the number given
Pokemon:GetCurLevelXPFrac() //returns a frac from 0-1 based on a lerped xp variable (for drawing)
Pokemon:GetDrawXP() //returns the lerping XP
Pokemon:GetID()
Pokemon:GetLevel()
Pokemon:GetName()
Pokemon:GetXP()
Pokemon:LevelXP(Level) //returns the xp needed for the given level
Pokemon:SetLevel(Level)
Pokemon:SetXP(XP) //Sets XP without lerping

HUGE thanks to TGiFallen for help, and the level function library.[/QUOTE]

[llamalords]

[sp]Looking Good.[/sp]
Fan-Fucking-Tastic

[quote]
PortalGod.: Looking good?
PortalGod.: LOOKING GOOD
PortalGod.: You think your fucking shit compliments are going to get you this gamemode
[LL-Owner] Llamalords: D:
PortalGod. is now Away.[/quote]