It's not much, but I was curious if this looks okay. It's basically for your typical hack and slash type game.

Also, how can I make toggleable buttons? Since I assume that key[KEY_A] (the key to switch attack mode on and off) will need to be toggleable. Right now if you press it, it would probably just turn attack mode on indefinitely.

For toggling, try:

//in loop or descision-making function
if(key[KEY_A])
     player->toggle_attack_mode();

//in toggle attack mode funtion
player->attack_mode = !player->attack_mode;

However, you should probably set some kind of delay, so it only toggles once every, say 500 ms.

I'm not an expert so I won't reccomend where things should go. (I don't know myself)

this is a little better.

aadfo824:

cPlayer* player;

How would the cPlayer class know what the instance "player" is when it's being declared in a different class?

this.toggle_attack_mode() = !this.toggle_attack_mode(); Yes, no?

piccolo:

By putting player->attack_mode(false) inside "if (player->attack_mode(true))", wouldn't that automatically turn it to false as soon as it becomes true?

so your saying that these are just animations and not logic functions?

if (key[KEY_W])
player->is_defending();

if (key[KEY_E])
player->is_attacking();

if (player->is_walking()) // which i guess will draw different frames for when the player is walking/idling in attack mode
// do somethin

To tell you the truth I have no idea what I'm doing. Here's some different stuff.

ok its a Zelda style game right?

so just let those be logic functions let the logic functions toggle a globe variable
named pose. every think looks good. your draw is going to need a little more to it though. i would sagest to get the idle and walk working first.

use the case statement to setup refence to a sprite sheet. then use someingthing to flip the frames each program loop.

i have a MMRPG in the depot take a look at it in going to update in right now. may 07 2007.
edit:http://www.allegro.cc/depot/Thegame/

The whole looping through a sprite sheet (assuming that each sheet would contain the base model of a character's every direction and action, like walking left, attacking left, etc) is what I'm not even remotely sure how to do, especially when trying to incorporate direction into it.

ok my game source is updated. before you look at my game to to this site this is the best allegro game site in the world.

http://agdn.netfirms.com/main/
then got to Examples & Misc Downloads

witch will put you here http://danielh7.tripod.com/main/
then down load lessons 1-7 this is where a lot of people on allegro started. it goes step by step though all that good stuff that makes up a game using just allegro no additional libs.

edit: i would love to help keep this site updated.

Thanks a bunch. This seems to be really helpful for the most part: http://agdn.netfirms.com/main/html/zelda.htm

What the hell is up with this though?

Why not this?

  if (key[KEY_UP])
    player.move(UP);

  if (key[KEY_DOWN])
    player.move(DOWN);

  if (key[KEY_LEFT])
    player.move(LEFT);

  if (key[KEY_RIGHT])
    player.move(RIGHT);

its easyer to read and understand for new programmers

example num1 = num1 + num2;

num1+=num2;

the first one is easer to understand.

Fair enough.

Hows this look?!

In my eyes, it looks like a whole lot of if statements.. I mean this would all be inside the main logic function (for in-game anyway) and there's still an assload of more stuff that needs to go into it, but is it fine?

its ok for a base i guess

http://agdn.netfirms.com/main/html/zelda.htm

Could someone explain this:

void Player::draw(BITMAP *bmp)
{
    draw_sprite(buffer,(BITMAP*)data[GUY000+frame].dat,x_pos,y_pos+48);
}

And this:

    if (dir==LEFT)
    {
        x_pos-=4;
        if (frame<4 || frame>5) frame=4;
        if (x_pos<0)
        {
            x_pos=(GRID_X-1)*TILESIZE;
            map.scroll(LEFT);
            screen_x--;
            map.getGrid(room,screen_x,screen_y);
        }

Is he using seperate bitmaps from the datafile, or sheets? I want to use sheets. And how is he going through the frames to make the animation?

That's a little redundant.