nchima's Forum Posts

  • I realise that maybe my original lengthy text post wasn't cleat enough. So I've uploaded a capx project file (r139) of my project. Maybe that'll be more clear and someone (looking at you RamPackWobble) can have a look at it and have luck figuring out how to incoperate one of RamPackWobble 's lighting methods with fare accuracy and without a heavy strain on memory, cause I'm clearly stuck. it would b very much appreciated.

  • 1) Okay I must be getting old, I don't get the 75% off joke. (2) I can't break up the walls, considering the number of "rays", I'd have to have very tiny walls to have a accurate distance() calculation. (3) I considered the pre-made overlay, like you did, but the rooms are next to each over so the pre made over lays would just be next to each other, which is pretty much the same as just having a full grid, but with more work. (4) I considered sticking it in the how do I forum, but it didn't seem 100% percent accurate. Like I said, sorry for breaking forum posting rules. If any moderator is reading this, please move it to the appropriate forum. (5) with reference to the paragraphs bit, please don't mock my dumb phone, I can't work with the scirra forums' fancy text editor ... I still don't get the 75% off bit.

  • Hello Construct community. I'm new to construct and game dev in general, so please pardon if I violate some construct forum norms. I recently came across RamPackWobble 's Land of Light and Shadows tutorial: .The first 2 parts aren't necessary to my game, but the 3rd is. If you haven't read the tutorial please do, it's amazing. So here's my problem; I tired incoperating the lighting system into my platformer stealth type of game. The idea is the layout (think of it as a building) is divided into various segments (rooms) which have to sneak though. All the segments (rooms) in the layout are dark, unless, a light is on, in which case the room is lit. The light stays in that segment (room) only, obstructed by doors, walls, and solid ground. Some light may sip into the next room if the door between those two rooms is open (ie solid disabled). A well placed obstacle can also create shadow. I tried 3 methods listed in the his tutorials, (1) the line of sight full grid method, (2) line of sight full cone method, and (3) the cast light arc method. The line of sight cone method was my least favourite since its possible for light from one room to move into another room, therefore you'd have cones overlapping each other, and remember the whole layout is dark meaning a cone would have to be created for each light. In the end (in my case) im better of using the less complex method and using the line of sight full grid system, covering the whole layout in a grid of lights which are activated when an on light has a line of sight to them (which I also tired. I'll get back to that in a moment). I tired the cast light method, which seemed promising, except for a couple of things; (1) the walls and ground which the rays of light collide into, are long, and there origin is in the center. This affects the distance() functions which is used to calculates the distance between the light from which the ray sprite is drawn, and the obstacle (wall, ground) inorder to adjust the width of the ray of light to not go beyond the obstacle. Because the distance() function uses the centre of the obstacle to calculate distance between my light and my obstacle (a long wall). So while one ray will have an accurate width setting, the light rays won't, which creates a very ugly mess. this could be solved if I construct had a collision-point parameter which I would use in the distance() function. It would seem that the best method of me to use is the line of site full grid method you devised earlier, it's actually quite good, my only gripe with it is that, having that full grid in my game with everything else that I have in my layout seriously degrades the performance, especially on slower machines (which is odd for a 2D game, with barely anything really taxing in it). If this method was less memory intensive (or processor, or whatever it is, I'm not an expert) I'd use it (if the more skilled programmers in this community could find a way to optimize this method). Is there anyone reading this, following my chain of thought, and capable of helping? Mr RamPackWobble, can you help? I'm so close to success... Sorry but due to the device I'm using, I can't upload screenshots or a capx file, I would really have loved to see if you could help. I just hope there's some amongst you capable of helping, even without. I know I've broken some forums posting norms/rules, again, sorry.

  • TELLES0808 Professionals. I like the sound of that. But pros can also be a little double edged, wanting to give as much as they take (or maybe its just my assumptions). Anyone thank you too. Will explore start exploring in the morning.

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  • Ragevortex hmmm... Okay. Sounds easy enough. Will start my adventure when the sun comes up.

  • Thank you I'll give deviant art a proper try some time. Although, at first glance, it looks like a deep artists community. How would one even approach an artist on deviant art?

  • I'm new to Construct 2. And game development in general. I have to say I love the Scirra Construct community, the tutorials, the forum, and members always willing to lend a hand with construct related stuff is rather encouraging. That said, it's hard to find aspects/types of game developers other than programmers here (artists, designers, for example). I'd like to know if there are any forums/communities on the web, that are as helpful as the Scirra Construct community but with other types/aspects of game devs? Right now I'm in urgent need of artists (but your suggestions don't have to be limited to communities of artists, I'd love to find communities of game fiction writers, designers, and or other types of game developers). Communities with people that want to work on game dev teams, (or help out,) work on games that'll potentially never see the light of day, just for the fun of it, much like the Scirra Construct community.

  • I'm new to Construct 2. And game development in general. I have to say I love the Scirra Construct community, the tutorials, the forum, and members always willing to lend a hand with construct related stuff is rather encouraging. That said, it's hard to find aspects/types of game developers other than programmers here (artists, designers, for example). I'd like to know if there are any forums/communities on the web, that are as helpful as the Scirra Construct community but with other types/aspects of game devs? Right now I'm in urgent need of artists (but your suggestions don't have to be limited to communities of artists, I'd love to find communities of game fiction writers, designers, and or other types of game developers). Communities with people that want to work on game dev teams, (or help out,) work on games that'll potentially never see the light of day, just for the fun of it, much like the Scirra Construct community.

  • I need help creating with Construct 2 events and logic for my little game. Is there anyone that can help me. I'm hopelessly stuck. <img src="smileys/smiley7.gif" border="0" align="middle" />