*fanscream* AAAA I got art. <3

LOOK AT THIS PRETTY ART!

Civvi’s norn, Milk, with my dragon Pearl.

Look at how pretty it is. Please go shower Civvi with all the spare love you’ve got! ❤

Also, I made some blarf drawings. From now on I’ll try (try!) to make some drawings every now and then. And comics. And pictures. And I’ll collect them on my art page. 😀

 

On another note: Ham5ter announced he’ll take up the Albianwarp development again.

Woo! Yay! Such awesome!

For updates you can check in at the Caos Coding Cave‘s #AlbianWarp channel. Sometimes, cool streams are happening!

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[code] Picking a random letter in CAOS

Malkin approached me on Discord, asking me how to pick a random letter. I’ve been using random numbers in CAOS with the RAND command for like forever, but I hadn’t found a reason yet to pick random letters. The question made me think, though.

Of course, there’s the old-fashioned, boring and bulky-code-way of just picking a random number between 1 and number-of-letters-in-the-alphabet. Then you can set a variable to a letter depending on the value of that number, in an if-elif-elif-elif-elif-… scenario.

Surely there should be a cleaner/easier way!

Recently I learned more about the CHAR variable thanks to Amaikokonut’s blog post over at Naturing :: Nurturing. I noticed char has two commands, one that returns a variable and one that sets a variable.

The command returning the character returns the ASCII number for that character.
I wondered if the one setting a variable also uses the ASCII code for a character: Yup!

So, all that’s left is to figure out the ASCII numbers of the characters you want to use.

For the characters A to Z, that’s 65 to 90. For the characters a to z, that’s 97 to 122.

So if you want a character between a to z, the resulting code would be this:

sets va00 “a”
setv va01 rand 97 122
char va00 1 va01

Nice and clean, right? 😀

 

[meta] Testing Room

Just skip to the bottom if you’re only here for the download.

While I was lurking in the Discord channels, someone mentioned Randoms Room. I remembered having fond memories of using that room, since it was so versatile.

There is a small issue though: the rooms inside the metaroom stretch from left to right and thus cannot be “divided” into multiple parts. So if you want to keep a norn in this specific place you have to use a stopperplant or freeze the creature or… figure out something else. Changing the doors between the rooms won’t work because there aren’t any.

I CANT FIX DIS WITH MAGIC WORDS WHAT I DO

I started chatting with xRAINxOFxBLOODx about this issue and decided to create another “testing room” where there’s a bit more variety in room shapes.

xRAINxOFxBLOODx provided the beautiful background for this metaroom. Here it is:

Pretty, right? The room spans 4 floors, of which the upper floors are divided into 2 or 3 compartiments.

As a fun little extra, there’s the option to toggle the room doors so they have a permeability of 100, 50 and 0. A permeability of 50 only allows some things through.

It’s a bit similar to Randoms Room as in it’s just a plain room: no CA, no lifts, no doors, no resources. Just a different lay-out.

Anyways, without further ado, have a download!

— Download Testing Room here! —

[Art] Fan buttons!

I’ve been feeling artsy lately.

Since I can’t seem to find a wordpress plugin that shows the last blog posts of people’s blogs, and I think plain links are not pretty enough to click on, I changed the links to pretty buttons! You can see them below:

 

 

Now, I would like more pretty buttons but I can’t seem to find many linkback buttons to sites that are still active, therefore I offer to create a button for your website!

[CCSF 2018] The CCSF Preliminary Forum is up! And icons!

The preliminary discussion for CCSF 2018 has been created. Here you can see the results of the survey and post your own ideas! You can discuss and team up with other members to make this year’s CCSF a succes.

http://ccsfdisc2018.ylukyun.com/index.php

Register an account and join the community, make the CCSF 2018 come true!

Civvi

Oh, and for whoever would like to help with this year’s CCSF, Civvi offered to create beautiful icons! I got one and I love it. I love it to pieces. She’s an amazing artist. ❤

My icon!

Do I need to say more? Make an account, I’ll see you there. Let’s have a wonderful year together with the community!

[Blog] Happy New Year!

I wish you a very happy new year!

May you have a great year, filled with love, warmth, health and happiness. And of course, a healthy dose of Creatures! Minus the wallbonking.

Even though sometimes it looks quiet on here, I haven’t been idle! I use to hang out on Discord a lot lately, especially at the Caos Coding Cave, having lovely chats with lovely developers. You people are amazing. You know who you are. 😀

[Blog] A new metaroom… Maybe?

Sooooo, yeah, I feel like developing a new metaroom.

A giant metaroom with two or three or four levels and aquatic space and stuff.
I want everything in the metaroom to change with the seasons and the time of day, so it would be using a very responsive background and stuff. Resource-heavy stuff, yay!