landon@destiny Log

Finally moved into the house, have internet, and they're almost done working on it! That's the real life update, but for Thousand Parsec I've been working on the battleviewer, which is now sporting two new classes: BattleManager and RoundManager.

BattleManager takes the place of TestBattle, with some extra functionality to keep the battle progressing (or regressing!) For the most part though, it maintains a list of RoundManagers.

The RoundManager itself contains a list of BattleScenes, which can be called up when needed via the next()/prev() methods in RoundManager.

This upcoming week I'm going to be finishing up these classes so a battle will be able to progrses smoothly between all event scenes as well as the important bit, actually having event specific scenes other than the initial scene where all the battleships and scouts and frigates (and planets) are just staring at each other.

While my mind is on the topic, some elaboration on how BattleManager keeps the battle rolling. Right now it checks for the next/prev flags on the current scene (this is because each scene handles gui events, probably a better way to go about this, but it hasn't popped into my mind yet.) If it catches one of these flags it calls its own respective method which checks the current round for any more scenes to view and if the round is completely over it moves on to the next. The current round/event is tracked via a simple tuple in the BattleManager itself. After all rounds have been expended, that's the battle and the viewer will exit/pass control back to the client (ok, so client integration isn't started yet, but that's the plan eventually.)