Homebrew [Request] Is there someone who can make a pixel art program/MSPaint clone?

[Jacklack3]

Yeah, there aren't very many good tutorials out there. I'm looking at some right now. If you look in the comments, I'm sure people have asked and have gotten responses. I usually look there when I don't get something

I think once i learned lua, ill be able to make a cleverbot thing!

 

[BringusStudios]

I know but every lua tutorial i search up starts with print("Something") then all the sudden have this crazy s$&%.

Well that's because you're studying LUA for PC. The structure of the code is same from 3DS to PC, but some functions are called and executed differently. print("") for 3DS is called more or less as Screen.debugPrint(0, 0, "", Color.new(255,255,255), TOP_SCREEN). It's all these changes that put a curve on 3DS programming, which is why I recommend learning a high level programming language like Python or Java first, so you can get down the basics of problem solving. IMO LUA for PC is meh.

 

[Jacklack3]

Well that's because you're studying LUA for PC. The structure of the code is same from 3DS to PC, but some functions are called and executed differently. print("") for 3DS is called more or less as Screen.debugPrint(0, 0, "", Color.new(255,255,255), TOP_SCREEN). It's all these changes that put a curve on 3DS programming, which is why I recommend learning a high level programming language like Python or Java first, so you can get down the basics of problem solving.

The more i see this, the more i think im not ready. I tried to learn python once...i got stressed and boreded out and just quited. This is why i suggested Scratch on the 3DS! Because its simple to use! But of course everybody disagrees.

 

[BringusStudios]

The more i see this, the more i think im not ready. I tried to learn python once...i got stressed and boreded out and just quited. This is why i suggested Scratch on the 3DS! Because its simple to use! But of course everybody disagrees.

Try visualizing this scenario:

Two men are holding 25 pounds of weight. The man on the left is really struggling to hold the weight, so he asks the man on the right to take 20 pounds of his weight for him. Now the man on the right has a choice. He can make the man on the left's life easier, but very much at his own expense. He would have to hold almost twice the weight he was comfortable with.

This analogy relates to how you say you want scratch ported. It would make it easier for you to make stuff, but it would take hours of difficult work on the programmer's part. Thats why nobody wants to do it.

 

[Jacklack3]

Try visualizing this scenario:

Two men are holding 25 pounds of weight. The man on the left is really struggling to hold the weight, so he asks the man on the right to take 20 pounds of his weight for him. Now the man on the right has a choice. He can make the man on the left's life easier, but very much at his own expense. He would have to hold almost twice the weight he was comfortable with.

This analogy relates to how you say you want scratch ported. It would make it easier for you to make stuff, but it would take hours of difficult work on the programmer's part. Thats why nobody wants to do it.

OK! I understand. But maybe it will happen soon...idk.

 

[knife emoji]

Wow that was quick!
Hopefully maybe this can go somewhere

 

[plasma]

OK! I understand. But maybe it will happen soon...idk.

You want it, you make it yourself. No one will make it because:
1) It isnt a viable piece of homebrew to spend hours coding
2) It is fucking awful
3) Again, its awful.

 

[BurningDesire]

You want it, you make it yourself. No one will make it because:
1) It isnt a viable piece of homebrew to spend hours coding
2) It is fucking awful
3) Again, its awful.

I have the strangest feeling somebody is going to kick his ass...

 

[plasma]

I have the strangest feeling somebody is going to kick his ass...

Kick who'se?

 

[Jwiz33]

OK! I understand. But maybe it will happen soon...idk.

Porting Scratch would be possible(source code: http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_1.4_Source_Code), but very hard and rather pointless. Try to start messing with a LUA homebrew on the 3DS. I learned what I know now in LUA from editing Sunshell and RPG Maker 3DS(and MicroLuaDS!). Then I made a few homebrew of my own. Feel free to look at my homebrew for reference or whatever.

 

[Megalegacy98]

I think once i learned lua, ill be able to make a cleverbot thing!

Try looking on lpp-3ds's documentary.

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I'm starting to have a lot of issues with this, and being a very novice programmer I'm not sure what to do. There's a good chance I won't finish this, it's having some weird flickering issues. Test it out and you'll see. Feel free to use the code.

Maybe I'll continue on this.

We'll see.

 

[BringusStudios]

Try looking on lpp-3ds's documentary.

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Maybe I'll continue on this.

We'll see.

If you do I think the grid is partly what's making it weird.

 

[Megalegacy98]

If you do I think the grid is partly what's making it weird.

The flickering?

 

[BringusStudios]

The flickering?

No, I have no idea what that is. The grid is lagging it up for some reason. It was much more responsive before I started using it.

 

[Megalegacy98]

No, I have no idea what that is. The grid is lagging it up for some reason. It was much more responsive before I started using it.

Oh.
I think I know how to fix the flickering.

 

[Sparkette]

Going good so far!

(sees top screen)

0.0

 

[BringusStudios]

(sees top screen

0.0

2sp00ky for ya?

 

[Sparkette]

2sp00ky for ya?

I don't know; the top screen looks spooked, so I'm thinking maybe I should be as well.

 

[Megalegacy98]

It's flickering because when you set grid to true and your doing the "while true do" thing it repeats whats in that loop. You have Screen.refresh and Screen.waitVblankStart in your while loop. The while thing repeats over and over again, it keeps refreshing. That's what's causing the flickering.

 

[BringusStudios]

It's flickering because when you set grid to true and your doing the "while true do" thing it repeats whats in that loop. You have Screen.refresh and Screen.waitVblankStart in your while loop. The while thing repeats over and over again, it keeps refreshing. That's what's causing the flickering.

Oh, good to know. I'm not used to working with lower level functions, Java is my friend .