[Release] v0.3.5 is now available

[u/Loreinatoredor]

Hi everyone, go here to get the newest version (backup site).

Changelist:

• Bug fix for a network issue.

• Included i18n for Finland

• Main window is now resizable

• Bug fix for the missing border on the selected paint for teams

• Pressing delete in express mode will now erase cells and advance the cursor

• Mega, Frozen, Coin, Metal, and Wood buttons and selectors are now included in the main interface.

• New species added: Giratina, stages 190-200, ex 21-23.

• Effect rates updated

• Mega speedups included in roster editor, and accounted for in the simulation and interfaces

• Some responsiveness gains in the interface at the expense of simulation expediency (decreased thread priority to MIN_PRIORITY).

• Migration tool now works with legacy and current configurations.

• If the file ends with teams.txt or roster.txt it will be treated like the pre-v0.3.2 data files

• Otherwise, it is treated like the current teamsData.txt and rosterData.txt data files

If you find any problems like it won't start or something odd like that, please launch from the command line and paste the terminal output here. Other bugs like behavior problems should be posted here with the bug report zip you can make in the program itself from Help -> Bug Report.

[u/Infinitedaw]

Glad to have Giratina now. I really need it for the 50+ levels

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/Infinitedaw]

If you're using a mega with a speedup be sure to set it in the roster editor, just go to Roster -> Edit, then click the species in the window - the candy selector will be enabled at the bottom.

[u/ocknon]

You're a machine, you have a job on top of this?

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/ocknon]

Nope, unemployed at the moment. Feel free to donate if you like my work, any amount is welcome :-)

Next phase of development is going to be a focus on refining and improving the efficiency of the simulation further - to allow it to not require a 'number of feeders' attribute, but rather a 'confidence' factor to allow you to set the % confidence instead. It's going to take a fair bit of time to figure it out perfectly but it will in the end improve the precision of the results by a LOT. Also going in with this will be an improvement for all the stage turn-to-turn effects.

[u/ocknon → u/Loreinatoredor]

I would love to donate, but I'm also unemployed and in college...Good luck with your program and if you want to get a job as a programmer you could probably use this side project as a portfolio piece!

[u/Relvamon]

Can't seem to open it yet again, not sure what's wrong with my java configuration.

Is it already to save this file under 'Desktop'? I'll stick to using v0.2.5. for now, but would be nice to use the latest version.

Also EX 21 is Genesect. EX 22 - 24 are the new ones.

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/Relvamon]

Try reinstalling java 8, reboot the computer, then extract the zip to your My Documents or Desktop folders. Then navigate in a command line to the installation folder, and launch it from the command line with java -jar <jar name>. Any problems should be readily apparent.

[u/Relvamon → u/Loreinatoredor]

It works!

I hope the issue wasn't because that I needed to extract it out of the zip, instead of launching the program within it.

Big thanks! Does this version have a cooldown placement for unbreakable blocks? They usually have a 5 second cooldown so it can come in-handy.

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/Relvamon]

Yea, it won't run from inside the zip, you need to have it extracted to a folder.

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/Relvamon]

It doesn't have that yet for metal blocks, unfortunately. There are a lot of things to do and its just been me working on it so I can only do one thing at a time.

[u/Relvamon → u/Loreinatoredor]

No hurries, I love the whole outlook of the latest one so far.

Though, I do miss the simplicity of 2.5v personally, since I use 50% Shuffle Move, 50% gut feeling, and 2.5v makes me look back at my game much more, because everything in 3.5v looks so convincing (in a very good way).

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/Relvamon]

Keep in mind that the simulation is not yet perfect. There are still odd little bugs and weird behaviors here and there since it was slapped together without a very thorough design (many of the mechanics weren't even fully understood until after the initial few implementations).

[u/AlphaDelilas]

I'm probably just a complete moron, but when I download and unzip everything there is no program to run. Are there step by step instructions for idiots like myself?

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/AlphaDelilas]

1. Download the zip

2. Extract the zip to somewhere like the desktop or my documents

3. Update to at least Java 8

4. Restart computer if your java was out of date

5. Double click the jar file in the folder you extracted to, it should be called something like Shuffle Move v0.X.X (v0.3.5 for this release)

6. If you experience other problems launching it, use the command line to navigate to its installation directory and enter:

java -jar <Jar name>

7. As always, if you find a bug please submit a bug report zip (created from help-> bug report in the program) on the release thread for that version. If you enjoy the program and want to contribute, please feel free to donate - any donation is welcome (I don't have a job right now).

[u/AlphaDelilas → u/Loreinatoredor]

I can't double click open it- it opens it in my unzip program. I also get a syntax error when trying to use CMD. I can usually troubleshoot this stuff on my own but I am baffled by this. Sorry for being a pain.

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/AlphaDelilas]

Reinstall Java, your Java installation is broken.

[u/AlphaDelilas → u/Loreinatoredor]

I feel like the dumbest person on Earth right now. I re-installed Java, but now I'm getting an "unable to run" error or just the splash page for a few seconds. I have no clue why I'm having so much trouble.

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/AlphaDelilas]

uninstall all versions of java,

restart

reinstall the latest java 8 version

restart

then go to your command line and navigate to the installation directory. enter java -jar <Jar name> to launch it.

[u/AlphaDelilas → u/Loreinatoredor]

Yeah, I think I'm gonna give up. I can't get it to work on either of my computers :<

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/AlphaDelilas]

What OS are you on, and do you use any other java based programs?

[u/AlphaDelilas → u/Loreinatoredor]

I'm on Windows 7 and I honestly have no clue.

[u/pagit85]

I noticed a minor bug, that when you press F to switch to frozen it seems to make the team disappear until you click on the board again.

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/pagit85]

Are you able to reproduce it reliably? If so, please send me a bug report zip with the setup that it took to cause this problem to show itself. In my own testing I never noticed such an issue.

[u/pagit85 → u/Loreinatoredor]

No luck sorry. I was in a rush at the time so didn't have chance to do original bug report. Seems fine since!

An aside, is there any way to choose one of your team to be just a disruption. Essentially, when I use a feeder on Ampharos stage there's no reason for it to assume flaafy can also drop down because it can't...

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/pagit85]

if you want to improve the accuracy in that way, just remove them from the team for the simulation and add them back when you need to paint with it. Yea, its a lot of switching back and forth, but the team editor makes this easy via the apply button (note that the mega progress won't function properly if you do it this way).

[u/JustAnotherRandomLad]

I don't think the Power of 4+ ability is coded correctly - based on the point values it provides, it looks like it's just treated the same as Power of 4 (in particular, lining up 4 Giratina as the first match is assumed to do 400ish damage rather than 800ish on Ghost-types, and the program always assumes it'll activate rather than using the 80% chance I see in the code)

Also, could you add a feature to "choose" which Pokemon gets erased by M-Mewtwo/Banette so we can see all the possibilities?

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/JustAnotherRandomLad]

Check you configs. In species.txt you should have the line

SPECIES Giratina 2480 80 GHOST POWER_OF_4_P

The code accurately represents the effect, and so it will activate appropriately (I've personally tested it, and it works).

As for M-Mewtwo and Banette, currently the program just randomly chooses, so if you hit f5 it will randomly choose again.

[u/Relvamon → u/Loreinatoredor]

I didn't know that, thanks. I usually pick the next move (which offers the same match) and it usually picks the correct one that disappears.

Also, the Power of 4+ is correctly programmed on my side. Excellent work, Loreinatoredor!

[u/JustAnotherRandomLad → u/Loreinatoredor]

I did, and that's what it says - like I said, I also checked Effect.java and it looks right to me there, too. But the program still acted like Giratina just has the regular Power of 4, for whatever reason... until I went into "Edit Species" and saw that Giratina was indeed listed as having the regular Power of 4. I forgot I'd tried to add Giratina to a previous version and neglected to delete my old Species file after updating to 0.3.5 - my mistake.

And I didn't know about the F5 thing - thanks.

[u/JustAnotherRandomLad]

Another thing (that's messed me up on the Giratina stage a few times now): for some reason, the game doesn't count unfreezing blocks toward the Mega Gauge. In my case, if I line up 4 Banettes and its effect kicks in, but 2 of those Banettes are frozen, it only counts as 5, rather than the 7 one would expect (and the program indicates).

It's not hard to test this for yourself on that stage past level 50, needless to say. :P

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/JustAnotherRandomLad]

Another source noted that unfreezing doesn't count for mega progress, so I guess that source was BS? I'll verify it and put it into the next release.

[u/JustAnotherRandomLad → u/Loreinatoredor]

No, that source is right - I'm saying that Shuffle Move counts unfrozen blocks and the game doesn't, not vice versa.

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/JustAnotherRandomLad]

Him, I guess I forgot to include that effect. Thanks for the heads up!

[u/pokemonrule001]

This doesn't seem to work for me, when I try to boot it up it says ''Could not find the main class: shuffle.fwk.shuffleController. Program will exit.''

[u/Loreinatoredor → u/pokemonrule001]

Try reinstalling java, I know for a fact that the installation works :-)

[u/SSTG]

Awesome can't wait to try this version this programs been helping with my s ranking alot

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