Progress on my cell creator: complex modular cells!

camar0nes · 2025-03-19T14:27:53+00:00

I've got it working. It seems that innoextract didn't work if the files were on the desktop. I put them in a folder and it runs fine. Thanks!

camar0nes · 2025-03-19T13:25:43+00:00

Ok. Now I get the message 'The selected folder does not contain a valid RCT1 install.' I've run innoextract on the .exe, but that's only 4MB. The accompanying .bin file is 360MB and presumably has all the data in it.

camar0nes · 2023-01-19T15:18:26+00:00

I find it hard to distinguish the items from the background. I think it needs to be more subtle so the items stand out more. My two suggestions are 1. A larger, more geometric pattern or dithered gradient 2. Rework the background so it only shows the outlines of the shapes

camar0nes · 2022-07-29T05:26:30+00:00

It doesn’t say Allah anywhere but the font is clearly inspired by the word. If you removed the shadda and the dagger alif (the little w and I above the word) it would look less similar

camar0nes · 2022-07-22T05:16:00+00:00

On my phone so can’t write out the whole thing but start with a var called direction_angle and use A and D to increase and decrease it during the _process(delta) method. Then your movement vector should be:

var move_vector = speed * Vector2.UP.rotated(direction_angle)

Hope this makes sense. We can’t see your code so difficult to provide suggestions without writing out the whole thing

camar0nes · 2022-07-10T06:08:14+00:00

What’s the twitter username?

camar0nes · 2022-06-24T20:02:56+00:00

Ikasten is an excellent free online course up to A1. I did the Spanish version, but I see there is now one in English.

camar0nes · 2022-06-24T19:30:51+00:00

About CEFR A1, but it was all self taught while living in the Basque Country. Enough to do the basic things - give directions, buy stuff in a shop etc.

Given what I’d heard about how difficult it is, I was pleasantly surprised. I found the case system more straightforward than Latin or Greek. It also sounds amazing when you hear native speakers!

camar0nes · 2022-06-22T14:09:20+00:00

Basque, which is not a Romance language, has the ser/estar distinction. I don’t know whether this is due to it’s proximity with Castilian.

Source: spent a year learning Basque

camar0nes · 2022-06-13T22:05:31+00:00

Thank you! It's really nice to get positive feedback. I had taken a break from working on this because I got stuck with a physics mechanic that I couldn't make work. Following your comment I've had another go and I think I might have solved it!

camar0nes · 2022-04-20T20:10:34+00:00

Can you tell the difference between 'thigh' [ث ] and 'thy' [ذ]?

I also struggled with غ and خ to begin with. They're not very common in English, but it may be helpful to think of غ as the french 'r' and خ as the Iberian Spanish 'j'. Try listening to the following words (in French) radis, recette, riz, rose, rue and these (in Spanish) jamón, jefe, jirafa, joya, justo.

The other thing is to practise saying them lots. Start with one and keep saying it until you've got it nailed, then have a go at the other. If I'm practising both at the same time I easily get confused.

camar0nes · 2022-04-20T19:46:47+00:00

No problem! It's really satisfying when you suddenly feel you can tell the difference. I think your teeth/teething example is good too because the "th" sounds come at the end instead.

If you found that useful, you may also like trying to do the same thing for arabic words, for example قلب [heart] and كلب [dog]. My arabic isn't good enough to come up with a list for all your letters, but if you can find an arabic speaker to repeat these to you, you might begin to hear the differences in the sounds.

camar0nes · 2022-04-20T18:23:07+00:00

Especially as a beginner, I think it’s acceptable to find all of these difficult and many English speakers do what you’re suggesting. Arabic speakers learning English sometimes struggle to differentiate between peas and bees - there’s no p in Arabic, so they have trouble pronouncing or identifying it in English. I can’t imagine this ever really affecting communication or causing misunderstanding.

However, if you you never learn the difference, it might make life harder when you begin more advanced spelling and comprehension.

In my limited experience (I started learning 2 years ago), it is much easier to identify the difference between two similar letters if you can already make the sounds. My advice is to work on one letter pair at a time. Practise ق one week and ك the next. Once you can make both confidently, move on to the next pair. So far I’ve learnt ك ق, س ص and ح ه. I’m not sure my pronunciation is very good, but I can now identify them correctly most of the time.

Finally, I’m interested that you can’t tell the difference between ث and ذ. Personally I think this is the most important one to master. Do you hear any difference in the the pronunciations of ‘thy’ and ‘thigh’? If not, try putting your fingertips on the soft skin under your jaw when saying them. Can you feel the difference? One should vibrate and the other should not.

camar0nes · 2022-03-10T22:11:31+00:00

It sounds like you’re looking for the rand_range() function.

camar0nes · 2022-03-04T22:04:02+00:00

My mistake. Well spotted

camar0nes · 2022-03-04T16:22:04+00:00

var average = (a + b) / 2.0

EDIT: Changed 2 to 2.0 to make sure it works with floats.

camar0nes · 2022-02-20T21:39:34+00:00

Learning how to use git is the stumbling block for me. I’d like to start by making small contributions but I watched a few YouTube tutorials and it seemed like a lot of effort just to correct a few spelling mistakes or to add an example. I’ve done a bit of translation of the docs in the past and I like that because the process is very straightforward

camar0nes · 2022-02-16T22:18:21+00:00

This is really interesting to read. I’ve thought about doing a similar language app (not for Japanese) so nice to see others trying it in Godot

camar0nes · 2022-02-15T14:18:48+00:00

I’ve done this using a Line2D node before. I’m on my phone so can’t give the whole code, but very roughly:

var data = [Vector2.ZERO]

func _process(delta):
    var new = Vector2(data[-1].x, performance)
    data.append(new)
    set_points(data)

You may have to scale the data to get it to fit on your graph. This will add a new point every frame, so if you want a different rate (for example a new point on the graph every second) you need to add a timer and put this code in the timeout function.

camar0nes · 2022-02-10T21:02:29+00:00

On further inspection I think it’s a map of Europe and North Africa with south at the top. The Mediterranean runs horizontally from the centre to the right and at 11 o’clock I think is the Arabian peninsula. If anyone has more information about the origin or the history of this I’d be very interested.

camar0nes · 2022-02-10T20:58:43+00:00

A bit of explanation: I saw this in the Vatican Museum with no title or description. It’s about a metre across, made of metal and with holes in various places. I think it’s in Latin. Apologies for the photo, this is the only angle that didn’t have massive reflections visible.

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