Setting up your environment to Work on the editor

[Blizzard]

I noticed when I was trying out the dimming of the layers. xD

[Ryex]

Za? I only added pygame dependency just now. until my commit a few seconds ago (magical 200) all pygame stuff was commented out...

[Blizzard]

When I tried running wxgltext.py the other day, I got some error messages of not being able to import some pygame stuff so I figured that I had to install it. Once I did, everything worked fine. True, it took a while until it started (probably Python byte code compilation), but the point is that it worked after I installed pygame.

[Ryex]

I just realized that the RPGutil.py in the test/code/rmxp folder had be copied out before I commented out all the pygame stuff. I fixed that yesterday
but I added the code back in to the cache.py file as I needed the hue rotation. I actually have no Idea if it works though...

*goes to try a test*

[Blizzard]

Will we be able to make an release build without pygame dependency?

[Ryex]

we could If I can figure out how to do the hue rotation using PIL instead of pygame.

but then we would be stuck using pyglet to play sounds which need the user to have AVbin to play files other than wav

Pygame doesn't require AVbin but it can only really play ogg and wav. mp3 can crash if the format isn't exactly right

so really, I would say if we can we should but I can't really figure out how to do the same hue rotation in PIL at the moment. the second I do I'll remove Pygame completely

[Blizzard]

If there is no way to do it automatically, we will simply implement it manually.

[Ryex]

oh yes I know, I'm working on it now.

[Blizzard]

Alright. Best you check out how it's done, i.e. how the coloring system with hue-saturation-brightness works.

[Ryex]

Ok I've implemented the change hue function in PIL the function is close to 3 time slower than pygame though (0.308 seconds rather than 0.167 seconds) but at the same time we don't need to distribute with  3.5 MB library that we are only using for one ten line piece of code. :/

EDIT: assembla is having server problems ... it's committed now, yay!


EDIT2:
ok this is freaking epic I just managed to DRASTICALLY reduce the amount of time needed to rotate the hue of an image with PIL and woudn't you know it it take twenty times a much code... oh and numpy .

Spoiler: ShowHide

the times on the left are from my new PIL function, the right the old loop and set each pixel separately PIL function and as you can see its even faster than the pygame version.

how awesome am I?

[Blizzard]

Sometimes code can be optimized heavily if you separate some specific cases and process them in a more optimized manner rather than doing all of it in a general way so you end up with more code. If that makes any sense. xD

[Ryex]

actually I did it by doing the color calculation manually. before I was usieng the ability of the pyhton colorsys module to do the RGB to HSV calculation which meant I could only do pixel at a time which meant I had to do a loop through every pixel.

with the exspanded version I did the calculation my self and uses numpy to to the operation element wise on the c level. much faster that way.

[ForeverZer0]

Using a script to iterate pixels is always slow. That is why I didn't bother trying to implement a Ruby version for transitions when I wrote that custom resolution script.

[Ryex]

On F0's Discovery of http://pytools.codeplex.com/
I have abandoned Eclipse and created a Solution in visual studio using python tools.

it WAY better.

[ForeverZer0]

On F0's Discovery of http://pytools.codeplex.com/
I have abandoned Eclipse and created a Solution in visual studio using python tools.

it WAY better.

I was ecstatic after finding it last night, lol.
The improvement is huge, and it feels good to be back in the IDE I am familiar with.

[Blizzard]

I'll remember this. I never liked Eclipse.

[ForeverZer0]

I've decided to use matplotlib for generating and setting curves for parameters. I'm sure we can find some other neat uses for it as well. The license is based on the same one that Python uses, so thats good, too.

I've updated the main post, but here's the link to save you time:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.0/

Download the file:  "matplotlib-1.1.0.win32-py2.6.exe"

[Ryex]

Sounds good.

[Ryex]

In VS Tools>Options>Python>Interperter Options there is a button called "generate completion database" This will get auto-completion working properly in Python Tools

[Ryex]

I'm moving to python 2.7 see first post for details