Raket - a 2D run and gun platformer

Hmm, not much to report on now, seeing as how it's just the base movement engine. I don't much like the controls the way they're set up, but if you're making a customizable control scheme then that's okay.

well, it's a bit more than a movement engine -- it's a weapon/character select engine, too

And I'm not a fan of the blur, at all. I don't know what it is, maybe it just looks crappy on my machine but motion blurring just never looks right in any game I've ever seen. It's way too choppy.

Here's a screenshot (linked for size).

Is it supposed to look like that? Could someone with a good computer post a screen of what motion blur looks like for them?

weird..

this is what it looks like to me when dashing (most blur possible in the game atm -- walking around, you're moving slower, you'll have less blur)

<img src="http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/blur.jpg">

here's blur while walking:

<img src="http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/blur_walking.jpg">

but i'm definitely not set on keeping motion blur. once i get more art assets in there (and put in enemies/shooting etc), i'll be tweaking the other options. i think soft motion blur like what you see in my screenshot can be great, but i'll need to make sure it's not having a negative effect on framerate etc. and i'll probably just set it as being optional anyway.

Woah, that's pretty crazy deadeye. I think its broken for you. Do you get a low framerate?

Motion blur here just looks like a softening of the edges.

I have no idea what fps I'm getting for this game but it seems to run at an okay speed. And yeah, every game with motion blur looks like that for me. Even the rain demo, to a certain extent. I wasn't ever really sure if that was how it was supposed to look (which would mean you were all crazy for thinking it looks good... not a completely unwarranted assumption lol jk ) or if it was just my computer.

I guess it's my computer. Good to know you aren't all crazy. Still, I wish it would work for me

this is what it looks like to me when dashing (most blur possible in the game atm -- walking around, you're moving slower, you'll have less blur)

<img src="http://upload.dfyb.net/uploaded/blur.jpg">

Ah. Yeah, there's a big difference there. The screenshot I took wasn't even when dashing, it was just plain walking speed.

Am I going to have to make it my personal mission to send deadeye a whole new computer, piece by piece through the mail? I will if I have to!

~Sol

i get the same thing as deadeye, and im only gettin about 3 or 4 fps

wow... something's up with the motion blur. is it supposed to increase the number of ticks in a given time period? my dash and other things use private variables that increase each tick, and even with the same framerate, changing the motion blur has a blatant effect on my dash etc. i know i should utilize time delta, but is it supposed to increase the number of ticks in a given time period?

Yeah, read up on the TimeDelta article. Motion blur works by actually boosting the framerate and drawing, say, 5 screens (for 5x) and merging them each time the screen is updated. So instead of events running maybe 75fps normally, with 5x motion blur it could be 375fps. In this case you have no choice but to use TimeDelta.

I don't think anyone appreciates how important it is! Use TimeDelta! (/goes to put it in sig...)