Oh wow, there isn't one? I didn't even notice. I'm so used to V2 having a read/write player variable. There's probably a reason vecna wants to hide the variable in V3, but a GetPlayer() would solve the problem while still being sexy.

You ought to release a separate lib that implements just the Columns. That way every finished VERGE game could include Columns.

Quote:Originally posted by Gayo

Time to dig out this thread for another feature wish: it'd be really nice if there were a way to set the bounds of the cameratracking to something other than the edges of the map. What I'm wanting to do here is create little "sub-maps" within a main map, and have the camera unable to scroll past the edges of the sub-maps. Now, there are several ways of hacking this in using the current build, so it's not a necessary feature, but it would be nice if the engine could handle it on its own so that I don't have to be jerking the camera around manually.

xerxes supports that internally. I guess I forgot to make a VC interface for that. should be easy.

Let's see ... I would like

- to have access to any one layer as if it were an image.
- to have multiple entity layers
- to have more file manipulation possibilities (such as deleting files even if thats kept to the app folder and its subfolders)
- to read map properties from a map thats not the curmap
- nested structures

I would also like this. I think it's rather... unlikely though.

Zeromus had some ideas for doing stuff like this, but he disappeared into the aether.

Indeed - that would do just fine :)

A couple other things I thought of (though im not sure if they were already mentioned)

- Being able to change a chrs walkstring at runtime.
- The addition of initial size and location of the game window
in verge.cfg.

Wait wait wait. You mean we don't have RenderLayer(image, layernumber)?

I thought we had a new Render to Destination function, so why not just alter the renderstring, render to the image, and switch the renderstring back?

Hmmm... a bit late on this one, but I didn't see this topic before.

My VERGE wishlist is pretty small, as it already does most of what I could possibly want it to. About the only thing I can think of is user-friendly network support (i.e. make it so that the file-handling commands can accept URLs or IP addresses)... that and a dedicated artist and FMV designer with every download! ;) Heheheheh...

-Tom

I would like something like
hookTile(string func)//func gets called every time the player goes to a new tile

My little wishilist:

-Some option to restict the playerentity position to tile-based coordinates (like V1, FF6, Lufia2 etc.).
-A way to have an event get called when the player steps OFF a zone tile instead of ON it.

This was a problem I had when making some puzzle in a game (I like puzzles in games :)):

You had to walk through an area, and everywhere where you stepped flowers wil grow and prevent you from going back. (don't ask).
So the event to make the flowers grow is called when the player steps off the tile.
I tried to workaround this by putting zones in all directions around the specified tile and then have it check what tile the player came from (based on it's facing), so it can put obstructing flowers on that tile. It works most of the time, but sometimes it seems to skip calling the events, which will probably be remedied when the movement is tile-restricted.

- Being able to jump to markers in MIDI-files
- The ability to end playing a MIDI file when it reaches a specified marker.

With the above two you can have a song play only once.
You can also loop a specific portion of the song.
In some games the battle music starts with some short intro and then starts from the point where it gets looped, this would also be possible.