Keon's Dev Log

Because I'm not a dev.

Well, now I am a dev. I can edit posts, I am using green. I can access 51. Not that it exists, of course. I can't ban you. I can lock your topics.

Orbital Shipyards:

Currently, my idea for orbital shipyards is such. They will, when crafted and placed, clear an area and then deploy themselves. Inside that area, ships can be built, (or houses, for that matter.) by placing building a ship inside the boundaries. Then, on a gui of the OS Core, you hit the copy button, which saves the whole ship to a 3d array, and then load some materials and energy into the GUI. The shipyard then can be turned on, by pressing another button. The ship will be teleported to the nearest dock location, which will be another block. Another ship will be built, and then teleported to another dock. If all docks are full, it stays right there and the machine shuts down. Cores are placed afterwards.

EDITED IDEA FOLLOWS: I will be saving to the .schematic file. Thusly, you can make a ship in MC edit and have it designed for you!

Any ideas? Post them here.

And here are the pics of Keon Shipyards








The progress bar: (Needs updating.)

Image:


What is Keon Doing???

March 2: I need Mackeroth's approval to continue with my plan. I am building a schematic for a house of blazes without using mcEdit. In the Hexidecimal values.
Later same date: Mack has given approval, now I am finishing the GUI.
March 3: Working on getting the dumb slots to work. I need to add a tile entity and a container it turns out. D: Anyway, if you are bored enough to actually read through my diary, here is a present: . It creeps me out.
March 4: Does anybody read this? And should I call Mackeroth "Mac", "Mack", "Mackeroth", "Doc", or "Dr. Mackeroth"? Anyway, right now it crashes when I right click. So now I am checking what part causes the problem. I think it is the actual GUI, not the TileEntity.
Later same date: I got it working. It is a chest so far, now adding buttons. Pics to come soon. However, chunks with the block in them don't save properly. D:{
Also Same Date: I forgot to register my tileEntity. I feel dumb. . But, NOW IT WORKS!!!
MY SHIPYARD GUI WORKS! IT'S A CHEST! Okay, now to add two buttons and a text input. That may be easy or hard.
March 5: Adding the buttons and text input. Looks to be easy. Progress bar may go up soon. In other news, today I built a big shipyard. It looks epic, but you don't get to see.
March 6: I HATE GUIS! I'll just keep working, sooner or later the buttons will not mess up everything.
Same date: Did not get much work done, had homework.
March 7: Okay, does not seem like buttons play nice with inventorys. I think what I will do is code buttons myself, much as the Enchantment table does, at least from what I can see. Either way, Enchantment tables found a way. Problem is that I have a lot of obfusciated code. Let me see how many get fixed when I update the names.
Same date: Well, I think I might know a way to get buttons to work. Follow TMI code.
Pi Day: Well, I ditched that plan because I hate it. Instead, I broke it into modules and a core. The core lets you command using buttons, the modules do other stuff for the core. All are blocks. All I can say is that GUIs are dumb and I hope they rot inside an aardvark. Oh, and Happy Pi Day! Tau is wrong, Pi is better.
March 15: GUI works.