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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta4)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:03 am

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Downloaded beta4, and I noticed some things:

* The 2x thing should be able to be turned off. Some people don't like it.
* Is there a way to switch the blip between male and female? I mean, I know Edgey wears purple, but I still don't think he deserves a female blip.... :edgeworth:

* There should be a little "Z|Press" "X|Present" at the top corners of the screen in cross-examining.
* The font on evidence is reeeally hard to read.
* And last but not least..... profiles?
* The source code is needed to run it on Mac/Linux. Plus, wouldn't it be awesome if users could add their own features? (Although, I'm wondering..... how the heck did you get it in one EXE? I used Py2Exe and it made a folder full of stuff.)

Alright, maybe that's a bit more than "some", but it's still pretty awesome! I mean, the first good case maker, really. :karma:

Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta4)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:42 am

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Thanks for giving it a try BigFish. To your points/requests:

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The 2x thing should be able to be turned off. Some people don't like it.

I do plan on having more resolution options. Like, choose your resolution, 2x or not, etc. I also plan on making the system not care what resolution the art is created in. This way you can set a higher resolution and use better art than in the original games if you want to. I'm not sure when I will finish this, it may be in tonight's release, but probably next week. Heh, I take it "some people" means you?

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Is there a way to switch the blip between male and female? I mean, I know Edgey wears purple, but I still don't think he deserves a female blip....

I never really noticed that there was a female and male blip before... You can change the blip sound effect with a text macro: {sound[sound]} where sound is a wav/ogg file in the sfx folder. There are two sounds that I ripped, click1.ogg and click2.ogg. I don't know which is male or female, or if I even ripped the male one at all. Let me know if it's there, it will be embarassing to release my case having all the males use female blips :)

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There should be a little "Z|Press" "X|Present" at the top corners of the screen in cross-examining.

Yes, and probably an icon for present in the court record as well. It's harder on the single screen to do this, but if I double the res and then show the icons at normal res it could work. I understand the interface is a little confusing because of this missing.

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The font on evidence is reeeally hard to read.

Yet another problem to do with the resolution. I really should play the original game again because it's getting so long I don't remember how it was. I'll try and find a better font, or maybe use some scaling tricks so I can combine original game art with higher resolution for things like fonts and interface. This is kind of related to all of the above problems...

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And last but not least..... profiles?

This ought to be pretty easy to add, they are just another form of evidence right? It's just my code for the court record is awful, so I avoid editing it as much as necessary. Also PW1 didn't have profiles, so I left it out.

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The source code is needed to run it on Mac/Linux.

Doh! I forgot to put the source in the beta4 zip. They were in the others. I welcome any additions of code, and do plan on making this project open source. Heck, I don't really mind if people change the code specifically for their own case and don't put their additions back into it. I'm basically doing this as a side project.

Thanks for all of the feedback, I survive on feedback :) Getting feedback in a free project is like being paid. I hope that eventually this can become a great casemaker, not just a good one. But it will probably be a while, and will need support and effort of more people than just me. Mostly, I just hope this can be useful for someone.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta4)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:22 am

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Quote:

Heh, I take it "some people" means you?

lol

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Also PW1 didn't have profiles, so I left it out.

Actually, it did. It only didn't have profiles for presenting, but all the rest of the time it did.

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It's harder on the single screen to do this, but if I double the res and then show the icons at normal res it could work.

It dosen't need to be double sized! Here's some graphics you can use:

^ These buttons were ripped from the GBA version and altered by me.

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I'll try and find a better font, or maybe use some scaling tricks so I can combine original game art with higher resolution for things like fonts and interface.

Actually, the regular text font would work fine for that. The real game does it, after all.

And, last but not least, this will probably be a helpful resource for single screen gui:
http://comebackcourt.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
These are screenies from the fan translated first case of GS3 with the GBA gui.

(Also, I just love your custom graphics hidden in the "bg" and "general" folder. :edgy:

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta4)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:21 am

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You are awesome! I forgot about the gba games, they have an even worse resolution than the ds :) About the font for court record information though, it's not the same font used in texts. It's a lower res font. I already tried using the text font, and I could barely fit anything. It's really been too long since I played the games now, I'm going to play through the first case this week and get reacquainted.

And yeah, you found the first art I made for the game :) It's really hard to draw with a laptop touchpad while riding in a car, haha. The first chunk of pyphoenix code was written during a car trip and I had no access to anything, and I thought, well gee, I can just draw some stuff. Lol. I left it there for an easter egg :)

Thanks for the rips I'll put those in pronto.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta4)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:46 pm

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Haha, thanks. :edgy:

If you want more GBA screenies, just PM me.

And also, after using PyWright for a bit, I have one thing to say: It's awesome! :keiko:

It may not recreate the games as well the other case makers might, but it has an appeal of its own. The fast text reminds me a lot of Earthbound, and being able to position characters any way you want is going to allow for some more interesting cases.

Good luck on developing this! :edgy:

Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta4)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:15 pm

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I have a question regarding the examine feature.
How exactly does it work and how will you be able to identify co-ordinates within it?

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta4)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:39 pm

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This doesn't work for me, I can't see any of the images at all. I have vista.

Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:12 pm

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Thanks BigFish for those icons, they make it feel a lot better to play just having them there!

I implemented the icons, added profiles, added checking evidence, and used a better font for evidence descriptions, in the latest release.

I also added a feature where it will check your case directory for art, sfx, and music before checking the general directories. So if you want to change any of the default art, or introduce your own stuff, without polluting the general folders, you can do it this way.

Here is an example of creating a profile, and being able to check it:

Code:

create evidence saluk$
set saluk$.name saluk
set saluk$.pic saluk
set saluk$.desc Cool guy from CR forums, author of pywright
set saluk$.check looksaluk
addev saluk$

Because the id for saluk$ ends in a dollar sign, it will be considered a profile. Also, make sure there is a pic named saluk in the art/ev folder.
The saluk$.check says that when the item is checked, it will run looksaluk.txt. Here is an example for that:

Code:

bg main
textblock 20 20 100 100 Just a picture of saluk
waitenter

This will show the default background; place a block of text starting at position [20,20], with a width/size of [100,100] pixels, that shows the text; and then wait for the user to press enter before returning to the court record. It may be a bit complicated, but it allows you to do basically anything you want with check. You could have a written statement for instance that when checked shoes a review of the actual conversation with a witness. Whatever. When I add more flexibility to scripts, this extra functionality will be available to check as well.

Hmm, that description should probably have gone in the doc. I need better docs...

Klavice Gavin wrote:

I have a question regarding the examine feature.
How exactly does it work and how will you be able to identify co-ordinates within it?

The test case has an example of this in edgeroom.examine.txt. You start the examine section with the line "examine", then each line following that will create a hotspot, or "region". A region is rectangular, and consists of the position of the left corner of the rectangle, the width and height of the rectangle, and a label to name the region. The coordinates of the screen start at [0,0] in the upper left, and go to [256,192] in the lower right. In gimp, if you use the rect selector to select the region, it will tell you the exact coordinates to use in pywright. Finally, result lines with the names of reach region are listed, which is where the script will jump to when a region is chosen.
Here is a portion of edgeroom.examine.txt from the test case:

Code:

label top
examine
region 0 22 37 135 tv
region 46 23 38 109 mic
region 87 67 59 39 desk
region 92 36 37 27 portrait

result tv
"It is a TV"
setflag seentv
goto top

Gerkuman wrote:

This doesn't work for me, I can't see any of the images at all. I have vista.

I have vista too, so in this case vista is not the culprit. You probably have the art extracted to the wrong location, or forgot to download the art pack. Your PyWright/art/port folder should have a ridiculous amount of files. The art pack should be extracted to the PyWright/art folder, overwriting the existing folders when asked. Note that there is a new download of both PyWright and the art pack on the wiki: http://gyakutenwiki.net/index.php?title=PyWright

Sorry to make it so confusing, I have a habit of overcomplicating things :(

Hope everyone enjoys beta5, and keep those requests and bug reports coming!

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:02 pm

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How do I play another case other than the test? It does work now, thanks.

Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:19 pm

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Playing Turnabout Blue, got the following error when Larry tried to start his testimony:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "PyWright.py", line 423, in <module>
for o in assets.cur_script.obs:
File "core.pyo", line 204, in get_stack_top
IndexError: list index out of range

Call this beta testing.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:13 pm

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Turnabout blue is unfinished. That error message is the VERY CLEAR end of script error. It's slightly better than having the system freeze, but only barely.

What SHOULD happen when a script completely ends? I'm not entirely sure.

to Gerkuman: you can use left and right to browse available cases. To make a new case, you need a folder for it, and start writing the script with an intro.txt file. It will appear on the list automatically.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:23 pm

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How do you work with animated .gifs? (As in use them in cases.)
I've read the doc, and it doesn't tell me exactly how to do it.
Also, would just adding sprite sheets work? If not, how do I divide them so it will.
Thanks.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:49 am

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Just so you all know, the new version (as well as its art) are now mirrored on the Gyakuten Wiki servers.

http://www.gyakutenwiki.net/hosted/pywright_beta5.zip
http://www.gyakutenwiki.net/hosted/pywright_art.zip
http://www.gyakutenwiki.net/hosted/pywright_music.zip (unchanged since the last version)

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:29 pm

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Klavice Gavin wrote:

How do you work with animated .gifs? (As in use them in cases.)
I've read the doc, and it doesn't tell me exactly how to do it.
Also, would just adding sprite sheets work? If not, how do I divide them so it will.
Thanks.

Just place the agif in the art/port directory (or art/fg, art/bg if it is something other than a portrait) and load it the usual way. The test case loads pearl as an animated gif, so look at Unlike sprite strips, you don't need to create a text file detailing how many frames are in the strip, just plug it in and play.

Code:

char pearl fade
"This is a test of pyphoenix."

"char pearl" loads art/port/pearl-normal(blink).* or art/port/pearl-normal(talk).*, where the .* can be a strip of frames in a .png format, or an animation in .gif format.

Sprite sheets contain more than one animation in the same file, which might be nice to support, but are more difficult for both the engine developer and the case writer to use. The only formats currently supported are strips, which is one animation horizontally laid out, and animated gifs. I can support sheets as well of course. By next week maybe :)

Oh a note an making sure the background is clear. Either use a transparent background with an alpha channel for .png, or have the background color be [255,0,255] with NO alpha channel. An idiosyncrasy of SDL prevents both an alpha channel and clear background color to be used at once.

Thanks Li Ji for mirroring :)

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:18 am

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Say, it's been awhile since the last release so I was wondering...
Could you add support for GS4 sprites in the future? It'd be great to see what you could do.
Oh and I recommend adding Psyche Locks. Great job so far.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:19 am

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WONDERFUL Case Maker, Saluk! I'm really enjoying playing around with it.

A couple of features I noticed are either missing or I don't know how to perform:
Lipsync - I saw that the characters didn't "talk" when you put text in parentheses, but... when I want Phoenix to say something outside of court, I'd rather not have the character on-camera be the one "talking". Maybe have an "in-text" lipsync control ({L}, for instance) that disables lipsync until {L} is used again. Either having that or a separate command (lipsync [on|off]) would be nice.
Text speed - I know you can set {delay#} in the textbox to make it go slower, but is it possible to modify the general text speed with a command like textspeed 10? That'd be nice for making even faster speech (if you have a really intelligent character for instance, whose talking normal people can't keep up with, kinda like Oldbag, except... even faster. [Yes, I do know about the {next} command for automatically going to the next textbox.])
Let's see... Anything else? :think:

Maybe... Character file organization - I looked in the art/port folder and noticed ALL KINDS of character files along with their text files. Would it be possible to implement subfolder control for characters, so you could throw all the art for a specific character into a folder and call it with something like "char phoenix", only it looks for the "Phoenix" folder in art/port instead of all the files having to be phoenix-[emotion](blink)/(talk)? Just a thing with organization I have. I like to keep things nice and tidy and separate folders for each character would be a nice feature.

Well, that's about it! And once again, excellent work. I'm currently still playing around with it and having TONS of fun!

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:24 am

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Yeah, I have lost a bit of interest due to popularity of certain other casemakers and lack of responses on this forum. Not to worry though, I have been plugging along a bit, mostly I just wasn't sure what was really necessary to add. nice to see some new complaints about the engine for me to sink my teeth into :)

Klavice Gavin wrote:

Say, it's been awhile since the last release so I was wondering...
Could you add support for GS4 sprites in the future? It'd be great to see what you could do.
Oh and I recommend adding Psyche Locks. Great job so far.

I'm not sure what the difference is between the GS4 sprites and previous ones. Except the fact that I don't include any GS4 sprites in the art pack. You are free to download GS4 sprites and insert them, especially as animated gifs are currently supported.

I want to support sprite sheets, but there are some issues with the sprite sheets I have seen on this page. Many of them have variable widths in an animation. Especially say, the pointer animation. When the arm is in, the width across the frame is half that of the frame when the arm is out. There is no automatic way I can see to chop that up. The other issue is to define each line in the sheet what animation it is. Not hard for me, but annoying for people importing to have to manually tag. If I make an asset editor/full editor, that might be a better time to support more formats, as it is easier to cut stuff up visually. I am slowly working on an editor to make cases quicker to write (while keeping the great logic abilities scripting gives you).

Slezak wrote:

...some stuff...

These are all very easy features to add and will surely be in the next update. Next update I will schedule for the weekend, or maybe sooner. The art organization used to be port_phoenix-emotion(blink), so it is better than it used to be. You are right in that I should have used another level of subfolders for characters.

I am also working on save support and some kind of configuration gui so that you can choose your preferred video mode and not have to mess with it later. And of course the editor, but that won't be in the next update for sure.

As always, the more feature requests and bugs that are revealed to me, the more I have to work on and the faster the updates will come :) I don't have a strong vision for where this project is going, so your input is always valuable.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:29 am

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Quote:

but... when I want Phoenix to say something outside of court, I'd rather not have the character on-camera be the one "talking". Maybe have an "in-text" lipsync control ({L}, for instance) that disables lipsync until {L} is used again. Either having that or a separate command (lipsync [on|off]) would be nice.

There's a simple remedy for that, just type in insert character name here hide.
By using the hide command you can make characters invincible. Play around with fade to make characters fade in too.
I've mastered most of the features of this casemaker so if you have any more questions ask me or saluk.
Great job again, Saluk.
Oh, and when I tried using hobo Phoenix or Kristoph Gavin in my case with the casemaker it looks choppy and the animation isn't very well.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:54 am

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PyWright is an excellent engine. It is simple yet powerful; all the details make it feel like the genuine Phoenix Wright game. Text and screen effects work very well. It has a lot of potential and I hope it'll reach it. "Thank you saluk, you're super awesome!"

However, I have one small problem: adding evidence doesn't seem to work for me. When I play "the_test", I can check the court records, etc.; but when I try to copy/paste the code for my own test case, there's an error message. Does anyone have an idea why ?

Finally, a question to saluk: have you ruled out the possibility of a DS interface? It could be useful in the long run for people who want to make Apollo Justice-related cases.

That is all, Your Honor.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:01 pm

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I haven't ruled out anything at this point. The interface is a bit badly coded (inflexible) right now, but when I do eventually add mouse support to click on the textbox to advance text, it shouldn't be hard to say, add another button down below that does the same thing and has a big ugly arrow :)

The problem with adding evidence is probably because you copied the adding code from the_test without copying the evidence database. There are two methods of defining evidence - in a script or in the evidence.txt database - and the_test uses both methods to, um, test both methods :) So if you copied the code out of intro.txt, it will try to add the evidence from the database that doesn't exist.

This code:

Code:

create evidence steelcards
set steelcards.name steelcards
set steelcards.pic steelcards
set steelcards.desc These are some steel cards
addev steelcards

Should work in your case, while this code:

Code:

"test with one item"
addev key1
"test with two items"
addev key2
addev key3
addev key4

Should not.

What error message did you get? I want to work on making error messages more intuitive and less programmyee.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:19 pm

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The message was something like "errors occured: check the log file" but the log file wasn't really helpful.

I had only copied this:

Code:

create evidence steelcards
set steelcards.name steelcards
set steelcards.pic steelcards
set steelcards.desc These are some steel cards
addev steelcards

and it didn't work.

Anyway, now that I define the evidence in the evidence.txt database, it works.
Thank you very much!

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:39 pm

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The log file may not be helpful to you, but could be helpful to me :) But I did my own tests and discovered the problem...

It seems like I goofed and evidence.txt is required to initialize the database. Will be fixed in the next version.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:06 pm

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It seems like someone deleted the beta5 information on the PyWright wiki page and it somehow reverted to beta4. I have just repaired it, so if any of you were wondering why I said beta5 was out but you ended up downloading beta4 instead, it has been fixed, and you can download beta5 again.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:16 pm

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The beta5 Art Pack doesn't work... I keep getting "invalid archive" errors whenever I try to extract from it.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:08 pm

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Strange, I get no errors. Maybe something wrong with the download? Is the file you downloaded 5.27 mb? If it's less than that, it probably was a corrupted download. Only thing I can say is try downloading again.

If it's the proper size, than it could be that the zip extractor you are using can't handle winrar's compression, even though it's a zip file. This is unlikely, but let me know what zip program you are using and I'll look into it when I release the next version.

Although I am thinking of going with a full fledged installer release for windows, and then a .tar.gz with source only for everyone else. And both of these would include full art, no music. Music will stay separate. Not sure what the size of that would be, probably somewhere in the 8-10 megabyte range. Hope that's not an issue.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:12 pm

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saluk, you can make installers that download the data from a server, so the installer itself is small.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:41 pm

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saluk wrote:

If it's the proper size, than it could be that the zip extractor you are using can't handle winrar's compression, even though it's a zip file. This is unlikely, but let me know what zip program you are using and I'll look into it when I release the next version.

Hmm, might explain it... I'm using WinZip 9.0, SR-1. Will try opening with WinRAR.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:47 am

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Just an update, I updated my laptop a few weeks ago; this resulted in two things. One, I had a better computer with which to waste time playing games on, and two, I have had network problems also. So I haven't done much.

However I am still working on the next release. The apollo art has been harder than anticipated, due to the gifs combining blink and talk in the same animation. But I am working on that. For the next release I will include all court-record available official art. I could support sprite sheets that are grid-aligned, but I don't see a way to support willy-nilly sheets. My best option is to make a good conversion tool to quickly build proper animation files from anything, which will be in the version after next.

Also, I will be changing the profile folder to use separate folders for each character, so if you have altered any of the art files or added your own, be advised. The script will try to convert it automatically, but a clean install will probably be the safest method of updating to the new version.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:24 am

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Great, thank you very much! =)
We'll all be waiting patiently.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:20 pm

saluk

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Another update. Sorry it's taking so long! I have just converted all of the portraits from court records (including the ones from apollo). That took a while. Now I have 200 megs of portraits! That's probably a bit large, so I'm going to make a downloader to let you install which profiles you want instead of having to download them all at once. I'll probably release the next version this weekend, with bug fixes, the downloader/portraits, and save/load. The editor isn't even close to finished, but I may include an early version of that as well.

Sorry for the wait, I have another project that is monopolizing all of my time, and this formatting stuff turns out to be fairly time consuming.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:06 am

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Thank you very much ! This sounds great - especially apollo characters. By the way, I noticed the judge's sprites other than "normal" don't talk ("surprised" for instance). Could it be fixed in the next release please? Anyway, PyWright rocks.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:25 am

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Yes, PyWright is a very good casemaker.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:34 am

wgb691

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I know this is annoying but, I was trying to perform a cross examination, however I seem to be stuck in a hold it loop, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:24 am

Slezak

Wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff

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Let's see some code. Maybe then we can more easily identify your problem.
Also, make sure the cross and endcross lines ONLY ENCOMPASS YOUR STATEMENTS, and not your results (presses or presents). Believe me, I screwed up on that before and it annoyed me to no end. Then I looked at the example case again and realized my mistake. BAM! Problem solved.

Example:

Code:

label start
cross

statement 1
"Blah"

statement 2
"Blahblah"

statement 3
"Blahblahblah"
endcross

result press 1
fg HoldItAnim
#And so on and so forth

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:06 am

wgb691

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Code:

#-version-1
addev pearl$
{wmatt e=normal}
{showwait Testimonyanim"}

label start

cross

statement 1
{wmatt}
"So I was like walking down the street{n} When I saw this hapless mime{n}Walk up to the kid"

statement 2
{wmatt}
"Suddenly she went crazy{n} kicked him in the shins{n} and the started choking him"

statement 3
{wmatt e=thinking}
"Though I can't understand why,{n} I guess she hated them."
endcross



result Press  1
fg holditanim
{p e=pointing}
"Just one mime?"
{wmatt}
"yeah dude why?"
resume

result Press  2
fg holditanim
{p e=pointing}
" Are you sure?"
{wmatt e=thinking}
"guess not."
resume

result press 3
fg holditanim
{p e=pointing}
"Can you prove this?"
{wmatt e=dialing}
"Let me check with a detective agency
fg objectionanim
{payne e=confident}
" That won't be necassary{n} everone hates mimes."
fg pbench
resume

result pearl$ 3
fg objectionanim
{p e=handsondesk}
"witness you have just perjured your self"
mus pa1_s1/08 - Investigation - Cornered.ogg
{wmatt e=sweats}
"what?"
{judge e=surprised}
"that is a serious accusation Mr.Wright"
{p e=headshake}
"yes your honor but it is true{n} The defendant loves mimes"
{wmatt e=breaks}
" gahhhhhm, How did you do it"
goto finish

result First
fg Cross-ExaminationAnim fade
goto start

result back
goto start

result none
{judge}
" That was a penalty mr wright"
penalty -10
nopenalty die
resume


label finish
{judge}
"simply amazing mr wright, in light of the witness out burst i declare the defendant"
notguilty


label die
"you lose, care to try again"
guilty

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:34 pm

Slezak

Wibbly wobbly timey-wimey stuff

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@ wgb691: Okay, first of all I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but you have:

Code:

result press 1

with two spaces between press and 1 (as well as press and 2.
Secondly:

Code:

"Can you prove this?"
{wmatt e=dialing}
"Let me check with a detective agency
fg objectionanim
{payne e=confident}

You forgot an ending quotation mark on Matt's line.
That's about all I can see that may relate to your problem. Try fixing both of those and see what happens.

Also, @ saluk: I think I found a problem with the penalty system: If the penalty goes below 0 and there is a nopenalty line, the game will get stuck in place showing the empty penalty bar and not allowing any more actions (except quitting, of course). I can get around this by doing something like:

Code:

penalty -34
nopenalty die
penalty +1

So it goes down to 66, up to 67, then down to 33, up to 34, then finally lands on 0 with the third penalty, but it just seems awkward having to "make" it land on exactly 0.
Otherwise, this is a really good casemaker!

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:01 pm

Ceres

I'd say

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Well, I tried this one, I must say I'm impressed.
More user friendly then other case makers and an overall great engine.

One more thing perhaps, perhaps you could include Gs4 material :back/foregrounds,sprites,buttons,etc.

anyway, keep it up!

Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:30 am

BigM

Killer

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This is odd I went to use it to see how my project looked. Got an error that said this...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "PyWright.py", line 5, in <module>
from core import *
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "core.pyo", line 27, in <module>
WindowsError: [Error 183] Cannot create a file when that file already exists

Very confusing because it working fine a few hours before.

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:08 am

iKlavier

Achtung!

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This is so crazy! :P I like it! Keep up the awesome work, I'm sure this'll be even more epic than it already is when it's finished!! :D

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Re: Introducing PyWright - my script based case maker (beta5)

Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:39 pm

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I don't exactly have a problem, but... I'll explain.
I'm in the process of creating an investigation scene for my fancase.
The goal is simple: the player needs to collect two pieces of evidence and present them to a character.
The next script won't run unless he presents them both.
Now, it is my understanding that flag [flag] [name] works with only one flag; there doesn't seem to be a specific syntax for lists.
I'm not a programmer (actually, it's my first time scripting) but I figured out a way to make it work nonetheless.
Here's a sample code (without the text to make it easier to read):

Code:

#-version-1
present
goto Back

result 1
"1"
setflag halfinvestigation1
flag halfinvestigation1 halfinvestigation1

result 2
"1"
setflag halfinvestigation2
flag halfinvestigation2 halfinvestigation2

result none
"None"
goto Back

label Back
result Back
menu scene

label halfinvestigation1
noflag halfinvestigation2 continueinvestigation
flag halfinvestigation2 endinvestigation

label halfinvestigation2
noflag halfinvestigation1 continueinvestigation
flag halfinvestigation1 endinvestigation

label continueinvestigation
goto Back

label endinvestigation
"Endinvestigation"

It does work, but somehow it looks "complicated" for such a simple language (especially if there are, say, five pieces of evidence instead of two).
Considering that I'm both inexperienced and stupid, there must be another solution.

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