Mental Games - devs-chat

Is there no sky.getColor()?

DeanCode

Is there no sky.getColor()?

Sounds like big idea

DeanCode

Is there no sky.getColor()?

No

@here I made a small project to write Addons for the Mental Engine with TypeScript:

this allows for much better integration to your IDE as thanks to the type declarations you can now see what functions are available
you can see examples (at least for the once i added documentation)
errors like typos, invalid function names or parameter type can be identified before even having to run the game Currently I only tested it for Linux and will probably need some fixes to work on Windows. For more information read the README on GitHub:

https://github.com/danielfvm/mental-ts/ (edited)

GitHub - danielfvm/mental-ts

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ΛLΞX pinned a message to this channel. 16.08.2024 11:09

i'm in shock, just wow

yeah im surprised that it works fairly fine

11:10

i havent rly tested it much though

11:11

but its already much easier for me to write addons with this system

11:11

yeah it looks gorgeous

Also i havent added all features of the mental-engine as i dont rly know what functions exists. https://github.com/danielfvm/mental-ts/blob/main/mental-types/index.d.ts

mental-ts/mental-types/index.d.ts at main · danielfvm/mental-ts

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DeanCode

Also i havent added all features of the mental-engine as i dont rly know what functions exists. https://github.com/danielfvm/mental-ts/blob/main/mental-types/index.d.ts

(Most things I know of are specified in this file) (edited)

i will contribute when i'll be home for sure

yeah that would be great heart

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11:14

i hope you dont die from shock when reading my bad code xd - i never wrote sth like that so i dont rly know what the proper way to do this is

don't worry, i do not either xd

11:15

your code is good

11:15

you just didn't see my engine code (edited)

ΛLΞX

your code is good

thanks lol

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brb

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11:19

here

11:19

it's so strange to see the links to the mentalgames.org in someone's repo

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11:19

and just the engine related stuff

11:19

my mind is blown

11:20

i'll test that out rn

Do you have a table that specifies the name of all valid keys? Because then i could add types for that as well which would help a lot to (i never remember if for instance A is KeyA, KEY_A, a or just A)

ΛLΞX

i'll test that out rn

yup let me know if there is a problem

11:21

it should automatically download the game with the ./setup.sh

DeanCode

Do you have a table that specifies the name of all valid keys? Because then i could add types for that as well which would help a lot to (i never remember if for instance A is KeyA, KEY_A, a or just A)

did you mean the key code?

yes the key codes

yeah i have that

11:22

i have a std::map to translate corresponding keys to the human readable ones lol

another thing i didnt know was what the name of the other RigidbodyType was

static dynamic and i had a third one

11:22

but i can't remember

ok ok let me know if you remember

okie dokie

11:23

<3

11:26

i did something wrong?

hm okay i'll need to change that

11:27

as far as i know importing json using the "with" keyword is still experimental

yeah seems like

ill need to change that to a simple JSON.parse

read that in the repo issues tab

try pulling again

a sec

11:30

Yaaaay

11:30

nice

11:30

yup thats how it should look like lol

yeah you can change the name in mntconfig.json

11:31

though it won't delete the old one if you do

i see

DeanCode

yeah you can change the name in mntconfig.json

you can also specify which files to run at startup in there

maybe save the archive and unzip on every build?

11:32

oh wait, that'll be expensive

11:32

maybe save the prev name on the build

11:32

and then compare the new name and the old one

11:33

and if they're not the same, delete the old folder with the old name

yeah i could do that

oh i have a new pc, i can work on the level editor finally

that would be cool

all i'm afraid of is the brush editing

11:35

everything except that is relatively easy (edited)

ΛLΞX

all i'm afraid of is the brush editing

you need to scale, rotate and move it right?

and allow the user to edit by just grabbing the verticies of the brush

oh

and allow to create and delete verticies

11:38

that's why i'm afraid of it

11:38

but i will try at least

yeah

11:38

good luck

thanks

how will you visualize it? will you use a canvas and if so do you use the classic Context2D or WebGL ?

11:39

Or will you use some lib like ThreeJS?

im not sure now what i will use

11:39

but im thinking of threeJS

11:39

yeah

11:40

or pixijs

ΛLΞX

but im thinking of threeJS

you could even visualize the shaders if you'd use some webgl library like threeJS

yeah ik