Chess (multiplayer)

[jolly igloo]

Yoooo when you gonna release

Chess in a realm would be crazy lmfao

[hazy edge]

we still need a game menu, and other stuff like local customization

[jolly igloo]

Gonna have different style sets?

[hazy edge]

yes

[fresh socket]

I love it

[jolly igloo]

Can't wait lol

[silk pelican]

WOAH. How did you manage to play the move instantly without a slight flickering? I’ve already made a few chess computers for MCPE, but I’ve never seen that happen before in any of my experiments.

[drifting arch]

npc ui

I guess

or disabled screen anims - form

[silk pelican]

You won’t believe what he did it’s actually genius

It’s not that tho, that would still have the flicker

[drifting arch]

bruh

I see this flickering

look on phone buttons on top to pause chat emote

he could use e.g. form values and then use them in HUD

[hazy edge]

[dark shuttle]

Action forms I presume?

[dusty cypress]

how do you update the form without any player interaction

[hazy edge]

i used actionforms and moved everything to jsonUI

[dark shuttle]

It is multiple forms right?

[hazy edge]

yeah 3, black side, white side and spectator

[dark shuttle]

So all the logic for moving the pieces is in the JSON UI?

[hazy edge]

the entire chess logic and movements come from the ScriptAPI, and the rendering is done using JSONUI

[dark shuttle]

All the pieces are buttons, and places to move to are form buttons right?

[hazy edge]

all the pieces are just HUD images, but the places to move and movements are form.buttons

[dark shuttle]

So are you adding/removing buttons? If yes then how are you opening a new form each time?

[hazy edge]

it will first render the board and both players will see the piece when moved

then when interacting with it will first update the form then make the move

[dark shuttle]

So it is opening a new form each time an interaction happens?

[hazy edge]

yeah

[dark shuttle]

And you removed the animations and stuff with JSON UI so it looks instant?

[hazy edge]

since i also added "suggested moves"

[hazy edge]

yeah

[dark shuttle]

Ah, ok cool thanks

One more thing, would that break other custom ui forms?

[hazy edge]

no dont worry

as long as they dont name the form Chess:black or Chess:white

[dark shuttle]

So it uses modifications?

[hazy edge]

these server_forms use bindings

[dark shuttle]

So if I had a different form where the UI relied on the name being "Stats", both addons could work fine?

[hazy edge]

yes

[dark shuttle]

Ah cool

[hazy edge]

same things for the actionform

[next narwhal]

Cool

[eager stratus]

Amazing

[rugged cave]

i still didn't get it how are you able to change the view after second player plays? Are you closing a form in some kind of interval to refresh UI?

[drifting arch]

^^^^^^^^^

[hazy edge]

the entire GUI is in jsonUI so anything you see on the screen has nothing to do with Script API other than what it sends to update the HUD

[rugged cave]

ya, but how do you update that GUI stuff? let say you send a actionform, than other players playes his move how do you update that move to show for the first player?

oh, so you are using HUD to update a board?

[hazy edge]

yes

[rugged cave]

oh i get it now

really coool

[hazy edge]

thank you

[rugged cave]

so somehting like title or what?

[hazy edge]

exactly

[rugged cave]

coool, really powerful

i wish the JSON-ui stuff were more easy or better documented

[hazy edge]

i actually lost hair in rl bc of the stress JsonUI caused me

[rugged cave]

I have learned like just 5% of it and i am done

💀

at least some kind of conditional rendering i know

you are the true hero here lol

[hazy edge]

no it's not me it's @neat anchor

the one who taught me everything

[dusty cypress]

no but like how do you trigger json ui to change the board

when the other player moves their piece

does that close the previous form?

cuz it didnt do that when i tried from what i remember

had to interact with it to close it and open a new one

[hazy edge]

it doesnt close the form made with scriptapi

[dusty cypress]

then how do you update the form

?

wdym

do you like send a title or a chat message or something and use that to conditionally render a different image or something

orrr what

im confused

[hazy edge]

yeah

[dusty cypress]

ah

wish we could communicate with json ui more easily

[rugged cave]

he is using title to update a HUD overlay and buts are just a action forms

its really coool

[dusty cypress]

yea i get it now

thought it was something like this but hoped they found a different way

[hazy edge]

it took me 5 sleepless nights so now my brain is not capable of handling a normal conversation

[dusty cypress]

understandable

json ui makes me want to

https://tenor.com/view/jump-out-window-suicide-quit-gif-14954656

[hazy edge]

same

[rugged cave]

ya lol

[vocal hazel]

I think it’s worth designing the Minecraft chess style. You can make not just pixel figures, you can make them in the form of mobs, for example, black: king - evoker, rook - vindicator, horse - rаvager, bishop - pillager. But still, what you did is truly brilliant, it especially seems impossible for those who do not understand scripts (like me)

[hazy edge]

this is still a work in progress

but i would prefer replicating the original game so that people who dont play minecraft dont get confused

[neat anchor]

looks beatiful!

[hazy edge]

Now, A.I implementation was made possible thanks to @silk pelican , who generously contributed to the project out of love for it

I'll probably post it tomorrow since i havent fully converted to his Chess engine

[summer vortex]

How did you live update the form

Without reset

@hazy edge

[silk pelican]

Technically not a live form

[summer vortex]

oh interesting

thx for tryn to explain it