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#1 Bagu

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Posted 05 September 2021 - 08:29 PM

Can be everthing :)
...Storywriting, level planing, dialogues,music, scripting.

My personal weakest point is DEFINITLY hexadecimal.
...my brain refuses to undertand this. :)


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#2 bigjoe

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Posted 05 September 2021 - 09:24 PM

i learned hexadecimal before I even had a computer of my own. Gamesharks were all the fuss. I was using them to make cheats that made enemies harder in rpgs, or made Sephiroth controllable and stuff.

 

I can count to 16 in one digit pretty well


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#3 Moosh

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Posted 05 September 2021 - 09:58 PM

I'm super glad ZQuest lists screen numbers in decimal as well as hex now. It's not that converting numbers is difficult, but the human mind is unreliable, and Google is consistent, but even more consistent is the laziness of the human mind which is also unreliable. Grug copy number in parenthesis onto FFC. Life good.


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#4 Valerie

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Posted 06 September 2021 - 02:43 PM

I don't really know what my weakest point in development is, there are alot of things I haven't tried to do in ZC... I guess I would probably say scripting, I find that very confusing.
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#5 Architect Abdiel

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Posted 06 September 2021 - 06:15 PM

I used to say my weakest point is in art, but then I made these...

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Would like to be better at more complex things, but since I can make something, I'd now say my weakest area is that..... I'm lazy. More like busy.


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#6 Nightmare

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Posted 06 September 2021 - 06:51 PM

Art.  Without a doubt art.

 

I failed 7th Grade Art Class outright (parents argued it on effort and got it changed, but still, I deserved it, I couldn't do it).  I'm not an artist.

 

-James


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#7 Bagu

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Posted 06 September 2021 - 07:22 PM

One of my weak points is definitly... HAVING TOO MANY IDEAS AT THE SAME TIME.
...sometimes, focussing is difficult...


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#8 Architect Abdiel

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Posted 06 October 2021 - 11:03 AM

I just sat down and looked at hexadecimal for five minutes and came up with a formula. Not sure how complicated it gets with scripting, but this is what I figured out. Read every digit as its own value.


And here is the formula I thought of for that.

XY = 16X + Y

Basically, if you have something like 6E, insert the value of 6 into the X slot of the formula. Then insert the value of E into the Y slot.

6E = 16(6) + E
In hex E = 14, so...

16(6) + 14
96 + 14

6E = 110

In case you were wondering why 255 is the max value, it's because hex uses two digits (I believe). So, if you did...

FF = 16(F) + (F)

F = 15 in hex.

16(15) + 15
240 + 15 = 255


Furthermore, if you are looking at like 0x3F

You, could think of that like x being a + and 0 being a value for Z.

(256)Z + 16X + Y

So like, I don't know if this is proper hexadecimal, or anything that would be relevant in scripting, but in ZC if you had map 2, screen 3D.

2x3D = 256 (2) + 16 (3) + D
Hex value of D = 13

256 (2) + 16 (3) + 13

512 + 48 + 13

560 + 13

If my math is right, that should mean screen 3D of map 2 would be labelled as the 573rd screen. However, if it helps with understanding, you could consider it the 574th screen, since hexadecimal starts with 00 as the first screen.

Whether or not that is relevant I'm not entirely sure on, but maybe it'll help you with understanding it better.
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#9 Anthus

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Posted 06 October 2021 - 09:11 PM

Organization if probably my biggest weak point in finishing stuff. You can have all the ideas and stuff in the world but if you can't keep what you are doing within scope, it gets easy to get distracted and give up.


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#10 Bagu

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Posted 06 October 2021 - 09:17 PM

Organization if probably my biggest weak point in finishing stuff. You can have all the ideas and stuff in the world but if you can't keep what you are doing within scope, it gets easy to get distracted and give up.

Oh yes
...but instead really "giving up" I am only criss-cross building
...and revamping everything, each time that I learn something new


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#11 Rambly

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Posted 07 October 2021 - 05:17 AM

finishing things. i haven't finished a quest in just about 10 years now. i am hella overdue


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#12 Bagu

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Posted 07 October 2021 - 06:55 AM

finishing things. 

 
...me too, same thing!



#13 Architect Abdiel

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Posted 07 October 2021 - 07:47 AM

...me too, same thing!


It's fine. Just keep helping me make things. Eventually I'll finish something and your name will be on it.
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#14 Bagu

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Posted 07 October 2021 - 01:32 PM

It's fine. Just keep helping me make things. Eventually I'll finish something and your name will be on it.

Yeah, I'd love it!!!




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