{"id":3621,"date":"2015-01-27T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T06:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2015-01-27T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T06:15:57","slug":"first-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2015\/01\/27\/first-load\/","title":{"rendered":"The first load"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-27-at-5.00.33-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-27-at-5.00.33-pm-300x226.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-27 at 5.00.33 pm\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-27-at-5.00.33-pm-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-27-at-5.00.33-pm.png 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Very short post, today.\u00a0 Since the Milestone 8 build, I&#8217;ve been working on adding save\/load support to MMORPG Tycoon 2\u00a0 (Most of the time actually went into GUI elements for naming save games and picking a game to load).<\/p>\n<p>The screenshot here is notable in that it&#8217;s the very first successful &#8216;load&#8217; of saved game data in MMORPG Tycoon 2.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it isn&#8217;t working 100% correctly, yet.\u00a0 The first obvious problem is that buildings, monsters, NPCs, and PCs aren&#8217;t yet being persisted at all.\u00a0 All that&#8217;s being saved and loaded right now is the raw map.\u00a0 But there&#8217;s a more interesting bug;\u00a0 while we do have the terrain types being restored properly when loading a saved game, each terrain type is completely flat.\u00a0 So a range of mountains appears just to be a very tall plateau, and a loaded map&#8217;s deserts don&#8217;t have dunes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably be spending the rest of the day figuring out what&#8217;s gone wrong, and will then get working on getting everything else to come through the save\/load process correctly.\u00a0 I&#8217;m planning to have Milestone 9 (the &#8220;Save&#8221; milestone) completed by the end of this week, and then it&#8217;ll be on to implementing more game mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very short post, today.\u00a0 Since the Milestone 8 build, I&#8217;ve been working on adding save\/load support to MMORPG Tycoon 2\u00a0 (Most of the time actually went into GUI elements for naming save games and picking a game to load). The screenshot here is notable in that it&#8217;s the very first successful &#8216;load&#8217; of saved game&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-27-at-5.00.33-pm.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-Wp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}