Level Master 2000: screenshot0001
Today I prepared the initial launch of Level Master 2000 at google code: http://code.google.com/p/levelmaster2000/. There are still a lot of features missing, as the project page states:
August 24th, 2010. Commited as is. Consider this more a preview/announcement rather than a real release. A major restructuring will occur within the next months, but anyway – here it is!
Nevertheless, it’s a good feeling finally having it on air and getting some feedback!
The last two days I’ve been refactoring the Adventure Island Jump n Run Demo code, in order to be able to use parts of it for a Racing Demo. For this, I’ve written a generic Box2D trigger, which can fire any type of event, with any type of arguments (even PBE notation like #Player.Spatial.position)! If a player skips a marker/trigger, he gets respawned to the last legal one. I’ll post more about the trigger class soon, for now, here’s a pic of the scene in the Editor:
Level Master 2000 Racing Demo
The weeks before, I was mostly busy with writing the introductional / theoretical background chapters of my thesis. Turned out to be more work than expected…
I recently upgraded to Flex4 SDK. Before that everything worked fine. After that, I had some compiler errors, and a quick research brought to me that I had to add
-static-link-runtime-shared-libraries=true
to the additional compiler options. Doing some more in depth research, I discovered that this isn’t neccessary with a newer version of FlashDevelop – and I can confirm: it’s true =)
After the update procedure, everything compiled fine in debug mode. In release mode, it compiled too, but I got a runtime error: “VerifyError: Error #1024: Stack underflow occurred”. Again, investigating this error on the web, I stumbled over http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-2266. The piece of code causing this, looked like so:
conn = new LocalConnection(); conn.client = this; conn.allowDomain('*'); try { conn.connect("_SchemaConnection"); } catch (error:ArgumentError) { trace("Can't connect to _SchemaConnection"); } |
So as you can see, it’s not the same as in the link above. I started commenting out line by line, and then I discovered, that it was the trace call. Replacing it with a Logger call finally fixed the error:
Logger.print(this, "Can't connect to _SchemaConnection"); |
I guess we’ll just put that on the unsolved mysteries stack 
And that on time 
For Level Master 2000, this means:
All implemented. For my thesis this means: written a first version of chapter 3: overview of rapid prototyping tools. As posted recently, it’s in German, but I’ll port it over to English as soon as possible!