ENIGMA Development Environment

Hi guys,

I am now a co-maintainer on the AUR package for enigma and have fixed issues with the package after contacting the primary maintainer (CyberShadow), which were mostly caused by misunderstanding/miscommunication between said maintainer and maintainers of the main github repo.

So now all you archers can just type yay -S enigma-dev-git and not worry about anything any more!

Hey everyone. I have been dead for a long time. I've not spoken to anyone in this community, at all, for months.
Things have been tough for me. I haven't been able to keep up with much Enigma, but I hopped over hear to have a look at what's been going on.

I'm really impressed that there's now a Free BSD port. You guys have been doing really well and I admire that. Keep up the great work.
I will be back soon. I miss all of you. Robert, Hugar, Josh, Sam, Fundies, YellowAfterlife, Rusky, Daspirit, there are so many of you i can't even process my thoughts to put all of your names into an intelligible list.

You're all wonderful people. Thank you for helping me with work, thank you for helping me cope. Thank you for making Enigma, and thank you for being persistent and keeping the work up. I'm so happy to see the project still going strong.

I've missed you all. I hope you're all doing okay.

If you've been wondering what I've been doing, it's mostly just been UTAU

I love you guys, and sorry I haven't been around. I'll be back someday, I promise.

Hey everyone;
I recently completed a unit on web development at college and would consider myself quite knowledgable in HTML, CSS, JS and PHP (I have also messed with ASP.NET Core for an electron application).
I quite often check these forums etc and have felt like the website could be made to be more attractive to game developers.
I am not intending to criticise the current web design, I just feel like certain elements are a little bit old-fashioned, and I have one or two ideas in mind for the homepage at least.
I haven't got anything to put forth at the moment, but as Enigma means a lot to me, I want to make the face of the community and its website look more up-to-date as to not deter anyone who is looking for a "modern" software.
This would be more of a hobby project than something I'm looking to get much out of, but I'd like people's thoughts so I don't just develop something that nobody really wants or needs or cares about, since the current website is indeed functional, and there's not really anything wrong with it.
A lot of people also do not like redesigns of websites as change is always bad. Even if it's for the better, adds new things, takes away nothing, then it's still bad.
So, I'm more intrigued to know if anyone is interested in any of the ideas I have so I know if there's any point in creating them.
My main motive for this post is that web design has really grown on me, so I'd like to work on something I'm quite passionate about, and the biggest thing I could think of that I've never not been somewhat passionate about is Enigma, whether it is just usage of the software, ideas for my IDE (which is currently on hold as I'm intending to make it in Electron using an HTML frontend with ASP.NET Core backend), or other things such as this.

I'm going to start working on my ideas as of posting this, so if you're interested please post a reply including what you think of a redesign of the site and make sure you chip in any ideas you have. I'll post what I have either later this evening, or tomorrow, depending on what I get done, and what responses I get.
Part of me feels like I'm going to get negative responses because I seem to have a forte in accidentally offending people; my intention isn't to say "this web design is bad", it's more "I want to show some ideas I've come up with".

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you have a nice day 

EDIT: here's a display of a design I had in mind;

https://i.imgur.com/J7WtuMB.mp4

Hello, yes it's me again. Again.

Java decided to crash and I feel like this is more likely to be my pc and not Enigma itself but I doubt I'd get anything helpful back from Oracle.
crash report: http://pastebin.com/raw/3GMsNRGz


crash repots like this generally scare me so I haven't really read through it carefully, so I apologize if the solution is extremely obvious...
Have had a lot going on recently and I wanted to start working on something so I install Enigma on my new setup and.. yay.
I apologize for once again being a burden, I feel like I'm the person most frequently in this forum location...

EDIT: this is output by the terminal;

Java Version: 10800 (1.8.0_92)
Loading lib files in /home/hitcoder/enigma-dev/lateralgm.jar
01_move.lgl 02_main1.lgl 03_main2.lgl 04_control.lgl
 05_score.lgl 06_extra.lgl 07_draw.lgl
Calling `make eTCpath=""`
> make -j 3 -C CompilerSource
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/hitcoder/enigma-dev/CompilerSource'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hitcoder/enigma-dev/CompilerSource'
0
Process terminated
Initializing Enigma:
Failed to create make directory at /home/hitcoder/.enigma/
Make directory is: "/home/hitcoder/.enigma/"
Linking up to IDE
Implementing JDI basics
UnimplementedUnimplemented

Choosing language: C++
Reading GCC builtins
Read key `defines` as `cpp -dM -x c++ -E $blank`
Parsed `cpp` `-dM -x c++ -E "/home/hitcoder/.enigma/enigma_blank.txt"`: redirect=yes
TRUE




*********** EXECUTE
  `/usr/bin/cpp`
  `-dM`
  `-x`
  `c++`
  `-E`
  `/home/hitcoder/.enigma/enigma_blank.txt`



Call succeeded
Read key `searchdirs` as `gcc -E -x c++ -v $blank`
Parsed `gcc` `-E -x c++ -v "/home/hitcoder/.enigma/enigma_blank.txt"`: redirect=yes
TRUE




*********** EXECUTE
  `/usr/bin/gcc`
  `-E`
  `-x`
  `c++`
  `-v`
  `/home/hitcoder/.enigma/enigma_blank.txt`



Call succeeded
Searching for directories between "#include <...> search starts here:" and "End of search list."
Toolchain returned 9 search directories:
Creating parse context
Parsing settings...
TOINT: 0
TOINT: 0
TOINT: 1
TOINT: 0
TOINT: 0
TOINT: 0
Setting up IDE editables...
%e-yaml
---
keyword-blacklist: ""
inherit-equivalence-from: 0
angular-unit: 0
inherit-escapes-from: 0
compliance-mode: 0
scalar-precision: 0
inherit-negatives-as: 0
make-directory: "%HOME%/.enigma/"
inherit-objects: true
inherit-strings-from: 0
inherit-increment-from: 1
treat-literals-as: 0

target-collision: Precise
target-windowing: xlib
target-widget: None
target-networking: None
target-graphics: OpenGL1
target-audio: OpenAL
target-compiler: gcc

extensions: Universal_System/Extensions/DateTime,Universal_System/Extensions/Paths,Universal_System/Extensions/DataStructures,Universal_System/Extensions/MotionPlanning,Universal_System/Extensions/Alarms,Universal_System/Extensions/BasicGUI,Universal_System/Extensions/Timelines,Universal_System/Extensions/ParticleSystems

Creating swap.
Dumping whiteSpace definitions...
Opening ENIGMA for parse...
Unimplemented: '::'#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f1c5a098c50, pid=26700, tid=0x00007f1c5a93c700
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (8.0_92-b14) (build 1.8.0_92-b14)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.92-b14 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libcompileEGMf.so+0x1bbc50]  jdip::read_qualified_definition(jdi::lexer*, jdi::definition_scope*, jdip::token_t&, jdip::context_parser*, jdi::error_handler*)+0xf1
#
# Core dump written. Default location: /home/hitcoder/enigma-dev/core or core.26700
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/hitcoder/enigma-dev/hs_err_pid26700.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#
Aborted (core dumped)


I have ideas for a new IDE for Enigma, LateralGM just doesn't do it for me; it looks like Game Maker, don't get me wrong, and it's better than GM itself when running in Linux, but in windows it's horrible, it's clunky and it's unstable. I don't have any logical theories for these differences however; I still think it would be nice to have a new IDE, and I have plans for how it should look in my head, which I will spend time drawing and annotating for you all, but graphic editing software will make this a gruelling process, so I may make a concept design within Enigma, which if I can design it exactly how I want it designed, if some people would be nice enough to hook the functions up to the system of Enigma and all the compilers, I'd be really happy. I love Enigma, and it's community, and it's developers, maintainers and contributors. The whole project is amazing, and it makes me sad how nobody notices the whole thing, there is so little attention to this project, especially nowadays since people's lives are getting in the way of development.

I really think LateralGM has so many issues (primarily on windows) that are just a pain to get fixed, I have seen The ExDeus's future aspirations for the project and I personally really like them, I would like to see Enigma become much more independent; it does not need to continue with GM compatibility, it can be so much more, so much more potential is here.

Now, I understand people in this world tend not to have much time to do things in life, especially how most people in the community and contribution circle of the development of the project are getting older and getting more involved in life things, it's more and more difficult for you to maintain the project.
I have considered learning a bit more on Java to help develop LateralGM, but I really dislike Java's GUI handling; I hate the whole thing with the clunky theme setting, etc. I think something else should be used to make an IDE, not Java; Java has problems.
I read somewhere that one of the developers/contributors would like to see an IDE developed in Enigma; this implies to me that it would be possible, and if it's possible, I would love to get involved.

Now, here is the way I work with code, just in case people need this info to know whether or not they want to get involved in my idea for this project; I will probably end up making the GUI, and get stuck on certain things.

Good things:
 - I am very methodical, I have to be very careful in how I code things.
 - I have good concentration, I will work and work until something is finished. I have even forgotten to sleep whilst working because I feel that I need to finish
   things.
 - I can comment code that is presented neatly quite quickly, this does not need to be when I'm coding, it can be from code that hasn't been commented.

Bad things:
 - I can be lazy, but this is due to lack of motivation; I'm not good as a leader because I can never motivate myself, I lose interest if nobody else seems
   interested
 - Because I have to work until something is finished, often if I'm working on a function or similar, if I leave it and come back to it I forget where I left off,
   meaning that I panic and try to avoid having to finish it. Normally however, I can get on okay if I just remove the code that is unfinished and start over.

I don't know whether this idea is going to be condemned or praised, whether people are going to laugh at me, or even if people are going to dislike me because I'm coming up with a new idea when LateralGM is still being maintained; it's an idea, I'm not saying LateralGM is terrible, I can work with it perfectly fine on Linux, but here are the things I dislike about LateralGM just briefly:

The sprite editor/viewer interface is very nicely presented, much more informative than GM's. However, it's a little more overwhelming, but lacks being able to apply animation effects, which matters not to most, but occasionally I miss these features, especially having to apply the effects manually through the image editor I am using on whatever system (On Linux I use GIMP, but dislike it because it's just an overwhelming interface that I haven't yet got used to)

The code/script editor just has a strange appearence, the font looks too pixelated, the colour coding seems off, and I find it annoying having to press ctrl+space to get suggestions for functions - but I find having it appear automatically annoying within Notepad++, so maybe make it appear automatically after a small pause, and only on unfinished functions, but obviously I'm sure a few people find it fairly annoying, I can see why too.

You may be thinking "ugh, this kid is 15, he doesn't know what he's talking about.", which I understand why you would think this, sometimes I come across completely opposite to how I want to, and sometimes things I say don't make sense - at all.

Obviously this has an included poll, so vote whatever you think - I've never submitted or opened a poll before, I'm assuming you can post replies here, but my bad if you can't x_x

Thanks again everyone, it's great being here.

~HitCoder

My current sonic fangame project is on hold for now for some reasons that are unimportant here.

Anyway, onto the topic. I have made a 2D Minecraft fangame engine so far, and I added infinite world generation. The issue is that it really lags once it generates 5 to 6 chunks. A chunk is made up of X/Y 20,64 (this is measured in blocks, each block is 32 pixels, but I'm pretty sure the only info needed is the amount of objects, so a chunk is made of 1280 blocks), is that an insanely large number? Should I change the depth of the world or something? Is there a way to unload all of the blocks in chunks outside of the view? Should I somehow make it not use objects for blocks, but rather somehow come up with a method for using arrays that draw sprites? If I did that, would it make it run faster? Are there any other methods?

I have already tried deactivating all the blocks that are off screen; It crashes the game for some reason.
I have also tried making all blocks offscreen invisible and non-solid.

Any suggestions?

Also, sorry for large paragraph full of questions.

I've been developing a sonic fangame on the engine fixed up by Polygone, thanks! ^^

Anyways, I've been getting into using a program called "LMMS", or "Linux Multimedia Studio", and I've made two songs, they're on my soundcloud at http://www.soundcloud.com/hitcoder

Give feedback and please tell me how I can improve! ^^

I decided I'd try running Enigma whilst I was at school, not sure if the error is due to administrative privileges, but here's the log

Operating System: Windows 7
Version: 6.1
Architecture: amd64

Java Vendor: Oracle Corporation
Version: 1.7.0_65

Available processors (cores): 2
Free memory (bytes): 39582808
Maximum memory (bytes): 939524096
Total memory available to JVM (bytes): 63438848

File system root: C:\
Total space (bytes): 79499882496
Free space (bytes): 29201772544
Usable space (bytes): 29201772544

File system root: D:\
Total space (bytes): 0
Free space (bytes): 0
Usable space (bytes): 0

File system root: E:\
Total space (bytes): 0
Free space (bytes): 0
Usable space (bytes): 0

File system root: F:\
Total space (bytes): 0
Free space (bytes): 0
Usable space (bytes): 0

File system root: G:\
Total space (bytes): 0
Free space (bytes): 0
Usable space (bytes): 0

File system root: H:\
Total space (bytes): 7755034624
Free space (bytes): 6958698496
Usable space (bytes): 6958698496

File system root: L:\
Total space (bytes): 733905678336
Free space (bytes): 46595768320
Usable space (bytes): 46595768320

File system root: N:\
Total space (bytes): 34356961280
Free space (bytes): 28098347008
Usable space (bytes): 28098347008

File system root: S:\
Total space (bytes): 1073741824
Free space (bytes): 322502451200
Usable space (bytes): 141459456

File system root: T:\
Total space (bytes): 1073741824
Free space (bytes): 322502451200
Usable space (bytes): 141459456

File system root: Z:\
Total space (bytes): 1073741824
Free space (bytes): 322502451200
Usable space (bytes): 141459456

Stack trace:
org.lateralgm.file.GmFormatException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "mingw32-make.exe" (in directory "H:\ENIGMA\enigma-dev"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
at org.enigma.EnigmaRunner.make(EnigmaRunner.java:312)
at org.enigma.EnigmaRunner$3.run(EnigmaRunner.java:173)

I was going to use Enigma for an ICT project :/