XNA using C#

[devoir]

I would be dead happy if tomorrow I could be coding XNA games and tools in C# for game development. I guess I could be in a couple of years if I really got my act together, but I get paid well for doing what I do now so taking a paycut to do game development is not a super attractive proposition. At the very least I'll be keeping an eye on your project, all the concepts that you've pulled together in such a short time is really quite impressive, while trying to fit my own brushing up of skills in somewhere.

You could probably even write a book yourself after a few more months on how to learn basic XNA2.0 and C# concepts from scratch

[Saban]

How do you make a while loop exit if one of variables meets a criteria? or just make a program exit entirely from within the while loop?

nevermind, break; it is.

[Saban]

So actually sitting down and making your own text rpg as soon as you learn the most basic things makes it so much more fun.

So far i've got the most basic fight against the player and an npc, 3 command options and crit system.

next up, refining my code and making more sensible loops.

[Cloud9_]

Originally Posted by Saban

So actually sitting down and making your own text rpg as soon as you learn the most basic things makes it so much more fun.

So far i've got the most basic fight against the player and an npc, 3 command options and crit system.

next up, refining my code and making more sensible loops.

Yeah thats how I learned, and it makes things MUCH more interesting. Once you learn a concept, plug it in!

good example, when you learn about for loops, make an exp table that uses arrays.

for (int i = 0; i < (iMaxLevel + 1); i++)
{
int exp; //declares the exp variable

exp = i * 350; //sets the amnt of exp needed for that level
iExpTable[i] = exp; //fills in the exp table with the exp needed
}//end Exp Table

You just did in 6 lines of code, what i used to do in 60 (with 60 levels in my game) ... simple

foreach is another great one

[Saban]

i'm more interested in making a decent combat system that can call in new enemies instead of having the program exit after i win or lose against by single opponent, and have a couple classes too.

All in due time.

[Cloud9_]

You're already making a more complex text RPG then I made Mine was just an elaborate character generation system.

[Saban]

is there no "or"?

like,

if (x >= 1) or (x <= 18)

apparently its ||?

[Cynno]

I'm gonna assume it's like other programming languages and say...

if(X>10) || (x<20)
Then Do some crazy batman swinging superman punch!

[Saban]

Yea, but i'm still having this problem, i have 3 if's, one for if crit is above 17, one if crit is 1 for critical fails, and an if for anything in between. the problem is when i crit or critically fail, the if for the normal damage still goes.

every time i try to stick an else or something in there, compiler shits a brick.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

if (command == "Attack")
{
//damage is random 1 to 6, crit is 1 to 20, anything over 17 is a crit for double damage
damage = (int)(basedamage.NextDouble() * 6) + 1;
crit = (int)(critchance.NextDouble() * 20) + 1;
Console.WriteLine("crit chance = {0}", crit);
//if statement for crits
if (crit >= 17)
{
critdamage = (damage * 2);
Console.WriteLine("Critical Hit, you deal {0} Damage!", critdamage);
goblin = (goblin - damage);
}
// critical failure procedure
else if (crit == 1)
{
Console.WriteLine("Critical Failure, you stab yourself in the testicle");
health = (health - damage);
Console.WriteLine("You stab yourself for {0} damage", damage);
Console.WriteLine("you now have {0} health left", health);
}
//else statement if no crits
else
{
Console.WriteLine("You deal {0} Damage to the Goblin", damage);
goblin = (goblin - damage);
}
// goblins damage turn, standard 1 to 6 random damage, no crit table
Console.WriteLine("Goblin has {0} health left", goblin);
goblindamage = (int)(basedamage.NextDouble() * 6) + 1;
health = (health - goblindamage);
Console.WriteLine("Goblin deals {0} damage to you", goblindamage);
Console.WriteLine("you have {0} health left", health);
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine();
}

oh ho ho fixed it.

[Cloud9_]

have you tried 'stepping through' to see what everything is doing, line by line?

goto the 'if attack' line, hit f9, Run... it will stop there... just keep hitting f11 (or the 'step into' button) and go through it line by line.

[Saban]

ah, there we go, this solved my next problem too.

So many {} brackets sitting around, one of my if's got buried a little deep.

[Cloud9_]

yeah in the section im currently writing, i have a LOT of {}'s Once i have it working I'm going to try and re-work it so I dont have as many crazy statements.

[Saban]

I need to learn how to call functions so i can make my main a little less hueg.

[Cloud9_]

what do you mean? whats tripping you up?

[Saban]

Well, nothing really. It's just i find my code to be cleaner if i can call functions instead of having a really huge main().

So say i need to have a combat resolved, instead of copy/pasting the combat code i can just call a function that resolves it.