[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 this thread. 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.

Stuff that's done

PortalGod posted:

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:



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



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:

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)

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.

WIP stuff

I'm working on getting all the base information for pokemon, like type and evolutions.



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 this page 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 this, and it took 15 minutes to format it into usable code

To-do

• Everything but the data

So yeah. Leave any comments, CC, or expectations below, and I'll be sure to think about them.

[Jamie932]

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.

[sam6420]

I wan this to happen, it'll just be plain fun to play. :)

[tinu-c]

Yeah, looking good, hopefully this goes somewhere.

[vexx21322]

PortalGod posted:

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.

Mix.

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

[CmdrMatthew]

PortalGod posted:

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.

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:

[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]

DogLatrop posted:

And here we gooooo

Edited:

Much better:

[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

DogLatrop posted:

garry posted:

More plz

What I have done on the map so far:


Details (there's no pokemon center or pokemart in the second screenshot because I have to scale them and stuff):


Credit to Plasma for making the models and materials, and for giving me the max files to do my own stuff to them. He's awesome.

[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.

[Dog]

Wow this is great.

[Poesidan [GAG]]

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]

PortalGod posted:

Through hacky methods, I managed to make my own pause menu for my gamemode.



The code I used:

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

[PortalGod]

Another update, mostly just for me.

PortalGod posted:

Made a metatable for my pokemon, which makes my life a whole lot easier.



The entire code to draw that is:

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

And the best part, the code to create it:

local Pikachu = Pokemon("pikachu")
Pokemon:AddXP(202)

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.

[Llamalord]

   Looking Good.   
Fan-Fucking-Tastic

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.

[PortalGod]

[LL-Owner] Llamalords: Everytime I see content for your gamemode
[LL-Owner] Llamalords: I want it more
[LL-Owner] Llamalords: D:
PortalGod.: :D
[LL-Owner] Llamalords: I loath you
[LL-Owner] Llamalords: D:

[Jamie932]

It looks as if it's coming along really well. Please don't drop this.

[moosef]

Jamie932 posted:

It looks as if it's coming along really well. Please don't drop this.

Nothing else needs to be said.

This is really good, it makes me want to break out the game boy color and play pokemon yellow...

[Irockz]

so is this a full fledged remake of Kanto or multiple regions (the sensible ones being Kanto and Johto due to them being connected)?

[vexx21322]

Irockz posted:

so is this a full fledged remake of Kanto or multiple regions (the sensible ones being Kanto and Johto due to them being connected)?

He mentioned that this will only be first gen. But he might make custom areas that aren't in any of the games.

[PortalGod]

Irockz posted:

so is this a full fledged remake of Kanto or multiple regions (the sensible ones being Kanto and Johto due to them being connected)?

So far, just Kanto. But I do have support for most of the newer things up to generation III, so it may come in the future.

[liam6478]

This looks great, keep up the good work!

[sacred1337]

Since I asked you whether you would like to work on this together and you said no, I've done more than this, but this is the latest update to FP.

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/108...1#post32810467

[PortalGod]

My marching band stuff is finally over and done with (we did the best at state competition/state finals in school history)! So now I'm free to work on this again.

Edited:

sacred1337 posted:

Since I asked you whether you would like to work on this together and you said no, I've done more than this, but this is the latest update to FP.

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/108...1#post32810467

Congrats on finishing, it looks good. I just hope you don't mind a little friendly competition when I continue work on mine.

Updates coming soon!