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Hi.

I am writing an air rune crafter, and I decided to write a blog about it's process.
I won't update this every day tho'.

August

• 13. - 17. Wrote the basic things, and got it working. However, it was always lost after 3-5 loads. I decided to rewrite walking completely, so this will be kind of a massive script. Expect 2000 lines ;)
• 18. Started renewing walking. Damn it was a tough thing to get started with! It took about an hour before I even knew what the final WalkToAltar function was going to look like. Also made a couple of DDTMs, which I will test later. It's now about 1000 lines of code :) There will be so many DDTMs and Autocoloring functions, that i decided to make an own file for them and include it in the main file.
• 19. Finished BankToFalador-DDTM but didn't test it yet. Here are all DTMs I will make:
• BankToFalador
• FaladorToGates
• GatesToRuins
• RuinsToGates
• GatesToFalador
• FaladorToBank
These might still change. I also tried to make ladder autocoloring function, but somehow i phailed. I am not sure why, but i'll just try again ;) Thanks so much to nielsie for his GetWallColors function! Made a GetWallAngleDegrees function with his autocoloring + GetWallAngle-function from MapWalk.scar. Didn't test it yet either though. Now I will be focusing on DDTMs, and when I am finished with them, rest is pretty easy!
• 20. Removed GetWallAngleDegrees, it sucked :p I am now almost finished with all DDTMs. Now comes the annyoing part, failsafes! I am kinda stuck now with a maths problem, because i have hard time understanding the SCAR trigonometry system. It seems that degree 0 in SCAR is in West, not North, as it is in RadialWalk. Well, usually in trigonometry west is always the 0 degree, but to make things even more complicated, SCAR increases angle clockwise! But hey, this is just good maths practice! ^^
Here's all DDTMs that i have tested working:
• DTM_BankToFalador (long white wall)
• DTM_FaladorToGates (ladders)
• DTM_GatesToWoods (citywall)
• DTM_Ruins (road, i think i have to come up with a better solution)
• DTM_GatesToFalador (road)
The script is 1393 lines long atm. Still have at least these things to add:
• Autoresponder (Basically done, just alot of minor fixing left. Atm it 290 lines, will also be an independent include)
• Proggy
• Online stats system (If this is too hard then i just make it send email)
• Failsafes
• Failsafes
• Failsafes
• etc..
• 23. Fixed alot of bugs, and made the progressreport. I even got it do 4 loads successfully :p.
Here's an example proggy (not a real one! all numbers are random) Is it too complicated?
• 24. Phewt, i've been struggling with my FindFallyBuildingColor, and it still needs fixing! Blagh… I have trouble finding the gates of falador and my ruins dtm is not very good yet. But now I'm going to bed… Percentage stays at 45…
• 25. Things start looking good! I even got it to bank 3 loads :) Too bad I was brushing my teeth when it failed, so i really cannot tell what went wrong this time :-/ It says "Banking failed", but the character wasn't even near the bank.
I try it once more, then i go to bed.
• 26. Wow! I remade DTM_Gates and I got it bank 10 loads! :) Now i can say it's 55% ready! It failed because it went to sleep (duhh, I forgot to turn off sleeping feature!) and my computer went to screensaver and
"It has been 3 minutes and Runescape is not yet ready… Terminating." In fact, it couldn't have continued anyways because i ran out of essences :p Things yet to be done:
• Form
• Stats-system (maybe)
• Tweaking the walking, making it as humanlike as possible
• Finish my autoresponder and adapt it to the script
• Multiplayer testing
• 29. I've done alot of lil' tweaking, but just as much is yet to be done. Also tried multiplayer testing, but had some trouble with logging current player out o_O. I also wrote the autoupdate functions but I cannot test them before I've released the script on forums. I check every file (AiroCraft.scar, DDTMs.scar, Responder.scar) individually, so if only one of those files is outdated, you don't need to download all the files. I made my own Rest function and it raised essences/hour by 17% :) I also remade sleeping procedures, but I haven't tested sleeping yet. Percentage stays at 60%, until i get multiplayer work correctly, and until i get my first 2+ hours proggy.
• 30. Did alot of minor bugfixes again… Got a 52 minute proggy too! Dunno how long it would have come if i hadn't stopped it manually :p the percentage goes to 65. Multiplayer is still untested.

BEST PROGGY SO FAR

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[ AiroSmith 1.0 ]
[ by: marpis ]
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Stopped manually :) This starts to look good now!

Good luck :) Aircrafters are fun ^^

Haha, you might have some competition :)
I'm guessing fully color?
I might give reflection a go :)

T~M

Not sooo many people uses aircrafters, I think.
But writing them is fun as nielsie mentioned.

From: Sabzi
Not sooo many people uses aircrafters, I think.
But writing them is fun as nielsie mentioned.

I want it for myself >.<

T~M

I am making this one for my self too :) And yes, it will be full color ^^
I don't see any point in hybrid scripts…

The point is Air Crafters are hard because of the walking… if you use reflection and know how to use it it's a clap in the hands.

From: Hermen
The point is Air Crafters are hard because of the walking… if you use reflection and know how to use it it's a clap in the hands.

walking for an aircrafter isnt too difficult with color either, people just assume it is.

From: Hermen
The point is Air Crafters are hard because of the walking… if you use reflection and know how to use it it's a clap in the hands.

haha, with reflection it's < 300 lines and would be more accurate than color ^^
i still rather color in general.

Yeah walking is not that hard. We got stones, trees, water, road. Although mine is not so good at the moment but I got a better one on my PC. It has bugs to fix but nobody really seems to want it so I don't have enough pressure on me to fix them XD

From: Blumblebee
walking for an aircrafter isnt too difficult with color either, people just assume it is.

Well Walking can be hard for all non-stop if you don't know to do it :confused:

From: Sabzi
Not sooo many people uses aircrafters, I think.
But writing them is fun as nielsie mentioned.

With high enuf crafting level you can actually earn a good amount of money, even for P2P.

I finished mine :D
Just bug fixing.
Marpis, are you releasing yours?

T~M

From: NiiX
With high enuf crafting level you can actually earn a good amount of money, even for P2P.

I know. But still, the statement is true.
Not so many people uses aircrafters.

From: The Man
I finished mine :D
Just bug fixing.
Marpis, are you releasing yours?

T~M

Yea, but I really don't care if people don't use it alot. I just wanted to try making a huge script and i happened to need an aircrafter ^^
Will propably go to Jr. Members.

Yeh same, I make my scripts for the experience :)

T~M

From: marpis
Yea, but I really don't care if people don't use it alot. I just wanted to try making a huge script and i happened to need an aircrafter ^^
Will propably go to Jr. Members.

I will definately use it, if it is flawless. ;)

My little bot needs to do something other than fighting and clay softening. :rolleyes:

That I have finished that quest legit may not have been such a time wasting idea after all…. xD

If anyone misunderstood me then I don't want to force anyone against air crafters :) I just wanted to say I know it's a good skill. And I personally like aircrafters very much.
Anyway my story was that I wanted an aircrafter and I wanted to became a member.

And a hint for you Pure: look at my signature.
You see that I got an aircrafter, right?



Then don't use it if you want a flawless one :D But shhhh don't say it to anyone else. It's our little secret.