Re: [Help-liquidwar6] Help making a second player locally -- did the first one get thru?

[Andy Armstrong]

Hi Christian,

Thank you again for such a lengthy reply!
All incredibly helpful information.

I have actually got the game compiling
on demand inside Eclipse - in windows and ubuntu. The problem is - if I
want to commit my code changes to an SVN repository - because eclipse builds
everything even although a rebuild may not be necessary the application
ends up committing like 500 files each time you recompile - which is not
really scalable. I cannot seem to use the svn:ignore list correctly in
order to ignore .so .la. o .exe etc in order to stop those particular files
from being committed.

I may try and make a new menu option
under rules for having two player controlled armies which are different
colours - but will work co-operatively.

I am happy to also write up a guide
on how I got LW6 compiling under Eclipse. So do you use any repository
software for the project? I would love to know how you got it setup!

Andy

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From:	"Christian Mauduit" <address@hidden>
To:	"Main discussion list for Liquid War 6,        a unique multiplayer wargame" <address@hidden>
Date:	17/11/2009 09:21
Subject:	Re: [Help-liquidwar6] Help making a second player locally -- did         the first one get thru?
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Hi,

On Tue, November 17, 2009 2:51 am, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Thank you for your extended support - it is very useful and I am very
> thankful.
>
> Taking a look at the code you have highlighted - I could for instance
do a
> rather bad hack - but would fix the problem by using the team colour
which
> is passed into that function - and if it is a specific colour - return
> false - so it wont attack?
That's exactly it. Note that I did not test what I'm suggesting you to
do,
but really, the return value of this functio (0: false, 1:true) is the
answer to the question "should I attack?". Note that the test
needs *2*
input values. The team of fighters we're moving, and the team of the
fighter (if it exists) which is on the adjacent position. You certainly
don't want any any team "never to be attacked by anyone".

> As for the option on collaborate locally - will the armies split into
two
> pools instead of just one then - and the armies simply follow whose
> closest?
They split in two pools.

See attached screenshot.

Have a nice day,

Christian.

PS: answering your other question, I do not really have any "development
environment". The "Makefile.am" files that ship with the
game are all I
use to maintain dependencies between files and tell how to build the
binaries. I tend to only fire 3 terminals when I develop. One is in the
source tree to use commands like grep or find. One is in the build tree
just to type "make && ./src/liquidwar6". The last one
runs GNU Emacs, to
edit files. Whenever I feel this is not enough, I try to simplify
something in the code and/or split into more manageable modules. I tend
to
think programs which are not maintainable with this kind of crude
environment tend to be not maintainable at all. That's clearly not in the
Eclipse spirit. Note that I now and then hesitate to switch to Eclipse
but
I'm so accustomed to my current practices that I didn't make the move yet.
Eclipse is very good for all I know about it (I get in touch with it at
work), and I see no reason you would not be able to edit the code with
it.
Only all the "project" stuff, that is, putting files together
with
Eclipse, building binaries with auto-generated Makefiles (I dunno if
Eclipse does this, I suspect it does) won't work, you'll probably have
to
rely on the good ol' Makefiles, at least at the beginning. Still, I
wouldn't mind having some sort of "HOWTO hack LW6 with Eclipse".
If it can
attract hackers arround ;) Note that the ./configure script does some
interesting checks on standard GNU/POSIX platforms, but it clearly happens
on MS-Windows it always does the same test and yields the same result,
so
in this peculiar case, IDE-based Makefiles might work as well. My feeling
is that right now, hacking the C code is sort of real hands-in-the-dirt
work, given the fact that I regularly revamp and rewrite stuff. That's
why
LW6 is still "beta", I'm still doing "heavy" hacking
on it. I'm pretty
impressed you got that far, to be honest, given the fact that
documentation on the game internals is scarce.

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