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🕑 Added 2019-08-11 19:52:24 +0000 UTC

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Changer

Stencyl is weird with it's variables. It's integers overflow in the low billions, and floats overflow in the quadrillions. And unfortunately I can't use types of variables aside from the ones used in the engine or the save system wouldn't work right.

Wild Bill

I see, integer overflow issues. I'm guessing you don't have any arbitrary precision libraries available in flash, and rolling your own could be complicated, yes. Couldn't you just use a float though? Even a single precision float can support up to 300 sextillion, and it's not like you need perfect accuracy.

Changer

Basically, I had to fix an overflow problem where willpower would flip into the negatives when going into the high quadrillions. so, I had to make up some code to add a new variable which represents "quadrillions of willpower", and have all the math in the game treat the two variables as two halfs of a single variable.

Wild Bill

Ah, 'K. How complex are we talking, out of curiosity?

Changer

yeah, it was related to the game, and it took a while but I think it's solved as of about a week ago or so.

Wild Bill

Was that complex problem related to the game? Did you get it figured out?

Changer

I am going to be trying my best to conclude the elf kingdom in this update. I only have a couple days left though, so I'm not fully confident on that. Trying to solve a complex math problem at the moment before I start tonight's dev stream.