October 27, 200718 yr See the attached PDF for the heart of the exploration. First I had an idea, then I got a big piece of graph paper (roughly 36" x 24") and sketched out my ideas. For some reason a big piece of paper sometimes works for me when a letter sized piece won't, who knows why... From there came the digitalization, otherwise known as convincing Visio to show me something like what I so easily drew with pen and ruler. Then the longer document of explanation. And that's where the PDF comes from. As many of you know I'm part of the Stratsims gang http://www.stratsims.com and get the novel title of Lead Programmer. As well I have been and will soon again officially be an HC programmer. The two endeavours are mutually exclusive in terms of code, never has code for Stratsims gone into HC and never has code for HC gone into Stratsims works. Ideas and experience are another matter and they cannot help but cross polinate. Where is this going, well to credit... Modularizing a program isn't something I can really credit anybody with, it is a pretty natural progression in programming thought. I think Brains of HC and IRC fame has championed generic everything as much as possible so he deserves a lot of credit. The hours pondering Stratsims and CIC and all of the people that contribute to that also impacted and bore this document. But what made it spill out onto paper and electrons is HC and my understanding of the Harpooon system and how it is divided into pieces for paper and computer games alike. Oh, a good dose of prolonged sickness didn't hurt the creative juices either! With all of that out of the way, enjoy, provide feedback if you so desire. My intent was to map out something possible, not as generic as Brain's ideal, not fully compartmentalized to allow swapping out any one piece without affecting others, but something I view as attainable at my skill level given amounts of time I do not have (so it's realistically an exercise, not a template for something to actually be done but who knows ). HC_Restructure_Idea_Set_1___20071027.pdf
October 27, 200718 yr Author Tony,Download results in an error. Hmm, not here, more details like does right-click and save as work for you? It is a PDF created in Acrobat 7 Pro, displays fine in version 8 here. What Browser?
October 27, 200718 yr 8.1.1 Nice pictures and description Tony. Didn't see where pete logs on wanting to command a multi divisional air and sea assault on a hostile shoreline.
October 27, 200718 yr Author Nice pictures and description Tony. Didn't see where pete logs on wanting to command a multi divisional air and sea assault on a hostile shoreline. hehe, lots of critics, Rene didn't see where the greatly improved weapons handling is described either oh, and thanks for the compliment.
October 27, 200718 yr Nice pictures and description Tony. Didn't see where pete logs on wanting to command a multi divisional air and sea assault on a hostile shoreline. hehe, lots of critics, Rene didn't see where the greatly improved weapons handling is described either oh, and thanks for the compliment. I made my comment when i only had the drawing and no expalining text.... With the text it looks really cool but seeing/recognising even 50% of potential effects of this new structure goes far bejond my skills/knowledge of software.
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