World Loader - Link your worlds up!!!

[arty-fishL]

beachbum111111 gave me a really good idea.

Wouldn't it be great if you could link worlds together?!

So I created a small, but powerful tool to do just that.
It allows another world to be loaded at runtime.

WATCH THE NEW VIDEO TUTORIAL!!!

I forgot to mention in the video tutorial:
The worlds must be in the same folder/directory.

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This is useful for linking different levels or parts of a game together, without bloating up the size of each world. This can aid in greatly decreasing lag and it allows for infinitely long worlds. An example of where this would help could be in jediaction's Halo - the generator (or Halo 2).

When you run the world the next world should load whenever this method gets activated, providing the next world actually exists.

When posting linked world on the Alice Community, post them all together and instruct users to download them all into the same folder as each other.

WARNING - if you are developing the world, make sure you save before playing, because this automatically bypasses the ask to save dialog before loading the next world. Also, do not rename the tool object in the world or it wont work.

I hope this helps you.

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UPDATE 2 - v2 : fixed a script bug
UPDATE 3 - actually v2 this time
UPDATE 4 - (OLD) VIDEO TUTORIAL HERE
UPDATE 5 - v3 : fixed another script bug

UPDATE 6 - v4 : new and revised features added. It can now:
- Detect non-existing worlds and gives the user the choice of locating the world.
- Detect loading failures and displays an error message.
- Carrying over variables is possible (see video tutorial), so your score etc doesn't get lost.
- Going back to a pre-defined world in the sequence of links when any loaded world is stopped is possible (see video tutorial).

The loadWorld method has been renamed to load_world .

UPDATE 7 - NEW VIDEO TUTORIAL HERE
UPDATE 8 - v5 : Variables other than strings should carry now

[room14]

I haven't seen it yet but HOLY F**K!

EDIT: agh. it gave me an error...

[arty-fishL]

Originally Posted by room14

agh. it gave me an error...

Please post the error in full (pastebin it or something to make it smaller). I want to squish all bugs, and I cant find them all when I'm running Alice under different configurations to everybody else.

[nickster654]

yea it gave me an error too


Error during simulation.




Alice version: 2.2 5/26/2009



Throwable that caused the error:

Traceback (innermost last):

File "edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.property.ScriptPrope rty[name=script,owner=edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.res ponse.ScriptResponse[world.worldLoaderTool.event.__Unnamed0__]]", line 1, in ?

File "<string>", line 8, in ?

NameError: Thread

[arty-fishL]

Originally Posted by nickster654

yea it gave me an error too

Ah, sorry about that, that's a one line simple fix. Hopefully no more bugs will pop up after this. Updating in a minute.

EDIT - there I've updated it, try it again please.

[jediaction]

Well, I hope you can fix it. I am excited for this!

[madden]

Hmmm. I am also getting a error. Perhaps make a video tutorial? Sounds very awesome though. I have been waiting a long time for this exact thing.

[arty-fishL]

Originally Posted by beachbum111111

Will it work with MAMA?

No, python scripting is different in Mama and I'm too confused.

Originally Posted by madden

Hmmm. I am also getting a error. Perhaps make a video tutorial? Sounds very awesome though. I have been waiting a long time for this exact thing.

OMG FFS, I just checked it, it never saved properly, so the update was exactly the same object.

OK, I'm updating again, this time I reduced my Alice to the settings you should have it at and tested again. This should be fine.

Tips for avoiding bugs:
- Don't run it the second the world starts.
- Don't rename the files.
- Don't rename the object.
- Make sure to save each world first or it wont be able to locate the current directory.

From now on I'm hoping for positive comments

[madden]

Bah, Sorry man, I'm still only getting errors. Does it matter if I put ".a2w" at the end of my worlds name? Because Alice isn't letting me. It says it doesn't let me place "." in the name.

[DensetsuNoKaboom]

Do you have to upload every world in the chain to the forums? Or only the first?
EDIT: Errors. Blah. Something about syntax errors.