BLITZEN'S PROFILE

Zeroes aren't so hard. You have to include zeroes in your display script though for it to work properly.

To make sure that they are displayed properly, Include in your display code a branch at the zero for each place value, where it goes

IF VAR (the one you want to display) is less than place value (ie if its less than a thousand and this is the thousands column) THEN show no pic.

Another method is at the end of the display code, add a conditional branch that if the digit is zero, then show no picture (or a blank picture). WITHIN that condition, add similar conditions for the place values that come after it, up to but not including the 1s.

This will show zeroes only when there are numbers high enough to prompt thier nescessity. For example, if you number is 100, but your display covers places into the ten thousands, the 0s in the ten-thousands and the thousands places will not show, because the ten-thousands value equals zero and so does the thousands value BUT NOT the hundreds (because it is greater than zero so the conditional process breaks) nor does the tens value (because the conditional process broke at the hundreds place.

A little confusing to explain in print but its really simple in practice.

See this topic at GW where I explained most of the details of splitting and showing a variable for a CMS/CBS.

I'm not quite sure what Demicrassus is talking about but it really isn't complicated. It takes about 10(x) commands to do up a number display, where (x) is the number of place values you want to use.

The thing is Shadowtext, I am really not willing to put cash or effort into downloading stuff. I really just want it to hook up to my TV so that my SUPERNES can take a break.

I've grown so much as a game designer since then, that if I picked it up again I would have to go back and change all the things that I know I could do better, which seriously isn't worth the effort. I'm proud of what it is in the state that its in but I'm glad that I moved on and I'm onto more original things.

Plus progress petered out when I started univeristy and found that a secondary education costs a lot of money.

On a side note I think that the game had some effect on fangames thereafter; I saw a couple cases of cloned scenes and maps in a few other games. *toots own horn*

I want to take a lot of the charm from FFE and put it into my next project. It will still have elements of my signature style, but FFE is a lost cause.

There is actually a special version of the demo floating around with another character and a "defend the fortress" minigame, and another dungeon. I can't think of where you might find it though.