AdventureCraft

Working Client Till I get up a new Website

2012-01-20T00:15:00.000-05:00

Works been quite busy lately so haven't had a good chance to tackle the website. Hopefully this weekend can get everything together. In the meantime, I've got a version working that doesn't rely on the website but this means download counts and ratings don't work.

http://bit.ly/yymTKq

Host suspended my Site

2012-01-17T19:49:00.000-05:00

Think its time I find a new web host for AdventureCraft. In the meantime, the site will be down meaning downloads won't work etc. Any recommendations on web hosts would definitely be appreciated in the comments!

Installer updated to 1.1

2012-01-13T09:40:00.001-05:00

I've been quite busy lately and taking a break so nothing much has happened but in the meantime the installer now works with 1.1.

NPC Path Block Tutorial Video

2011-12-03T20:18:00.002-05:00

r1095 - NPC Pathing Blocks

2011-12-02T21:57:00.001-05:00

I've had a moment finally to finish up and polish the NPC pathing block so I could release it. As well, this version includes the ability to have camera blocks not pause the game. Tomorrow I will put together a short tutorial on using the NPC pathing blocks.

Download http://bit.ly/pgJHxW

Map Downloading Should Work Again

2011-11-26T19:17:00.001-05:00

All good once again!

Maps Down for the Moment

2011-11-26T18:18:00.002-05:00

You guys ran me out of bandwidth and I'm currently setting more stuff up and it will be ready in about an hour.

Website Fixed

2011-11-22T20:03:00.000-05:00

Alright I've fixed the website. Download numbers will be missing previous downloads till I have a chance to change some code to add in old downloads.

Host currently suspended my website

2011-11-22T19:13:00.001-05:00

Ignore the update button at the moment. My account has been suspended and trying to find out why so I can fix it.

Edit: Found out whats wrong and will be fixing it in a couple hours. In the meantime, map downloading will be disabled as well as some other stuff.

Updated installer to work with Release 1.0

2011-11-19T16:00:00.000-05:00

Skyrim and dealing with mortgage people has occupied my life for the past couple weeks but found some time today to at least update the installer to work with Minecraft 1.0.

http://adventurecraft.org/files/AdventureCraft.zip

The Future

2011-11-07T08:46:00.000-05:00

After taking a a little break and thinking about it I've decided what I want to work on.

First off AdventureCraft, my plan is to stop updating it with Minecraft versions but to continue to update the backpatcher. As well, I want to add some features I've been wanting to add for the past few weeks but unable to while working on the MC update.

NPC Path Blocks
Custom Blocks
Cutscene blocks being able to allow entity movement

Once these are taken care of, I will start work on a new mod with similar ideas as AC in mind but focused on multiplayer. The plan is the client will be a special client that receives custom items, blocks, textures, and UI from the server. This means instead of hard coded items/blocks that everything will be scripted. As well, single player is going to actually be a local multiplayer. As I'm focusing on multiplayer there will be certain focuses with this in mind which are listed below that I've skipped before.

NPC Dialog Trees
Quests
Stats

You still will have access to triggers and their various types except they won't be real blocks meaning you can place them in water etc. So this should give a good idea of where I'm headed in the future for the moment.

Sigh

2011-11-06T11:32:00.000-05:00

I messed up the 1.8.1 update and its in a completely unrecoverable state :( Somehow when I was doing a mercurial commit a bunch of files seemed to have gotten deleted without any backup of them. Trying to decide what to do at this point but a 1.8.1 update seems far fetched at this point. One thing is 1.8.1 adds almost no new features since I disable almost all of them.

I'm going to start looking instead at what can be done to make AC more separated.

Been Busy

2011-11-05T12:25:00.000-04:00

Alright so 1.8.1 AdventureCraft is mostly done besides needing to fix the torch and revert/toggle various 1.8.1 features. I want to get it released this weekend so I can actually work on fun features instead of updating to new versions of Minecraft.

I've updated the launcher btw so install via login will work once again!

Status Update

2011-10-21T21:41:00.000-04:00

Sorry for the absence for the past few weeks. Life has been quite busy for me during this month. It's started off with me looking for a house to buy and I was able to find a place to make an offer on. Then shortly after making an offer on the house, my girlfriend the night before her birthday was complaining about sharp pains in her abdomen so I rushed her off to the ER. On her birthday, she ended up having surgery to have her gall bladder removed. While I was waiting at the hospital for her to be brought to her room after the surgery, I find out my offer had been accepted on the house which then sets through the chain of events that needs to take place to finish buying the house. Of course, I've been having to do this all while helping her out while she's been healing for a week. Then this week my game studio ended up laying off half my office and I still have a job but I was occupied with filling up a bar with compatriots and finding out the news of who was let off elsewhere. Things have stabilized a bit now but its been quite a busy 3 weeks since my last update (and I still have a few things to take care of for the house but its mostly all accounted for at this point).

So where is AdventureCraft in all of this? Well last weekend, I finished integrating AdventureCraft with 1.8.1 but I still have bugs to fix (example blocks currently don't render) and toggles to add for various 1.8 and pre1.8 behaviors (food for example). I hope to be able to wrap up the 1.8.1 update this weekend assuming nothing new occurs in my life but we will see.

Biome Boss Battle

2011-10-01T00:00:00.002-04:00

This is a neat map all taking place pretty much in a single room, similar to Spawned. But unlike Spawned this map is all based around various difficult challenges. Its quite a hard map but if you get stuck there is a walk through included in the map directory. If you like the map make sure to head over to Lahleon's thread to click on his adf.ly link!

Forum - http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/339010-ac-biome-boss-battle-updated-9232011-over-9000-dl/

r1089 - Fixes Storage Block saving of Tile Entities

2011-09-30T19:18:00.000-04:00

Storage blocks will correctly save out again tile entities.

Progress on 1.8.1 updating hit a snag in that I need to rewrite a lot of rendering code and I've been quite busy in real life with a combination of work and searching for a house.

r1087 - Mob FOV Detection, Pathing Improvements, Script Profiling, plus more

2011-09-25T14:13:00.001-04:00

Got bored last night working on 1.8.1 conversion and got caught with changing how mobs work for finding their target.

Living entities now have a FOV which is used to determine if a target can be seen (use debug or /renderfov to see the FOV angle). Access the FOV on an EntityCreature via .fov
Pathing only simplifies the current segment walking along now.
Mobs won't update their path to their target unless they can see the target therefore they will now goto the last known position and then give up after a while.
Fixed muzzle flash getting stuck permantly on for zombies and skeletons when they can't see you.
Can get time stats on scripts via /scriptstats and reset the stats via /scriptstatreset. (Times are all in milliseconds)
Store block correctly renders its items and the sky renders correctly now when looking at a store block.
Bullets from mobs will now no longer come from their feet but instead their waist.
Lots of prep code work for 1.8.1 update including shifting blockID range of several blocks (id's 100-122 are now 150-172 and id's 152-155 are now 173-176).
Can disable random pathing on EntityCreature's via .canPathRandomly.
Can adjust random looking on EntityLiving

canLookRandomly - Will this entity try to look around randomly
randomLookVelocity - How fast will this entity look when randomly looking
randomLookRate - How often will the entity try to look randomly in ticks.
randomLookRateVariation - Max amount of ticks to add to the randomLookRate
randomLookNext - How many ticks before choosing a new random look velocity

Friday's Map: Spawned - The Creeper's Forge

2011-09-23T23:46:00.001-04:00

I've decided to aim for adding a map once a week on Friday to the in game downloader. In the future, I might up it but for now going to go with 1 map addition per week.

This week the new map being brought to you is Spawned: The Creeper's Forge. Completely different from previous maps in the downloader with this one being focused as a sandbox map. Your objective is to rebuild the town and save them from the creepers.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/513461-ac-spawned-the-creepers-forge-121v-final/

r1062 - Fixed Slime Jumping and Block Placing

2011-09-20T21:35:00.000-04:00

Block placing is all fixed up now and slime's won't lunge into you anymore either.

Now that is out of the way I will be starting on the 1.8.1 conversion starting tomorrow. By default most the new features will be disabled due to a lot of maps are based on the pre 1.8 behavior of various game mechanics. Maps though will be able to enable/disable whichever features they like.

Now go check out this tool pack trailer for doom style maps that tKm and Arkia are putting together.

r1058 - Fixed a crash bug with scrolling over Piston Heads in the inventory

2011-09-19T09:52:00.002-04:00

Was a crash bug with scrolling over the piston head in the palette which has now been fixed.

r1057 - Fixed the Sword

2011-09-18T19:41:00.003-04:00

Turns out I messed up how the sword was working so I fixed that issue.

Edit: Seems mob movement is slightly off at least with Slimes and will be looking into fixing that next before I move onto updating for 1.8.1

Gravity Wand - Custom Item Tutorial

2011-09-18T18:38:00.002-04:00

r1056 - Custom Items

2011-09-18T18:09:00.000-04:00

For scripting Vec3's can be created via Vec3(x, y, z) and have a few helpful functions on them

add(ScriptVec3 other)
subtract(ScriptVec3 other)
double length()
double distance(ScriptVec3 other)
scale(double s)

Custom Items can now be created by creating a property file and placing it in the items folder of your map. Each property is assigned by propertyName=propertyValue and they are listed below

itemID - ID to use for this item
name - Name of the item
iconIndex - Index into the item.png to use for the icon
maxItemDamage - Maximum amount of damage this item can take
maxStackSize - The max amount this item can be stacked
onItemUsedScript - Name of the script file to use for when the item is clicked with

itemUsed is filled with the item being used on script execution

Solid Weapon

2011-09-16T09:27:00.002-04:00

I've added the map Solid Weapon to the in game map downloader. It's a really neat map by Talic based off an old cell phone game.

In the year 2089 some sort of creature start to appear in the surface.
This creatures are extremely dangerous.
This is why you (the special agent Michael) has sent to the possible place where these creatures come from.
Your mission retrieve any type of information about this creatures.
You will be assisted by your helper Grace, via codec.

Teaser Video

A Playthrough of an earlier version of the map

Forum Post - http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/571156-%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93-ac-solid-weapon-20-%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93%E2%96%93-want-something-new/
Wiki Page - http://adventurecraft.wikkii.com/wiki/Solid_Weapon

r1048 - Scripting Additions and Fixes

2011-09-15T23:52:00.000-04:00

Player's move speed is effect now by moveSpeed
Move speed greater than 1 will allow faster movement than 1 now
Changing rifle to use rifle ammo again and not pistol ammo
Adds the ability to execute a script on the various movement key presses and stop them from occurring

keyID has the key pressed and keyState has whether the key was pressed down/up
If the last line returns false then it will be as if the player didn't press that key
keyboard.keyForwardScript - Script to run when pressing forward
keyboard.keyBackScript - Script to run when pressing back
keyboard.keyLeftScript - Script to run when pressing left
keyboard.keyRightScript - Script to run when pressing right
keyboard.keyJumpScript - Script to run when pressing jump
keyboard.keySneakScript - Script to run when pressing sneak

Added functions/variables to EntityLiving

gravity - Controls how fast this entity falls
jumpVelocity - The upward y velocity upon jumping
jumpWallMultiplier - The upward y velocity upon jumping against a wall will be this number multiplied by jumpVelocity
jumpInAirMultiplier - The upward y velocity upon jumping in the air will be this number multiplied by jumpVelocity
shouldJump - Says whether this entity should be trying to jump or not
airControl - The multiplier for how much the player can effect their horizontal velocity while in the air
void fireBullet(float spread, int damage) - Fires a bullet using the entities position and facing. Spread effects how much randomness is added to the bullets trajectory.

Added to Entity

hitVec3, blockHit, entityHit = rayTrace(ScriptVec3 start, ScriptVec3 end) - Traces from the start coordinate to the end coordinate. If something is hit then hitVec3 won't be null. Then whether a block or entity was hit the corresponding variable will not be null. This will ignore this entity during the ray trace.
hitVec3, blockHit, entityHit = rayTrace(startX, startY, startZ, endX, endY, endZ) - Traces from the start coordinate to the end coordinate. If something is hit then hitVec3 won't be null. Then whether a block or entity was hit the corresponding variable will not be null. This will ignore this entity during the ray trace.

Added to World

hitVec3, blockHit, entityHit = rayTrace(ScriptVec3 start, ScriptVec3 end) - Traces from the start coordinate to the end coordinate. If something is hit then hitVec3 won't be null. Then whether a block or entity was hit the corresponding variable will not be null.
hitVec3, blockHit, entityHit = rayTrace(startX, startY, startZ, endX, endY, endZ) - Traces from the start coordinate to the end coordinate. If something is hit then hitVec3 won't be null. Then whether a block or entity was hit the corresponding variable will not be null.
hitVec3, blockHit = rayTraceBlocks(ScriptVec3 start, ScriptVec3 end) - Traces from the start coordinate to the end coordinate. If a block is hit then hitVec3 has the position hit and blockHit the block's coordinates.
hitVec3, blockHit = rayTraceBlocks(startX, startY, startZ, endX, endY, endZ) - Traces from the start coordinate to the end coordinate. If a block is hit then hitVec3 has the position hit and blockHit the block's coordinates.