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  • there we come to the next problem, airborn takes place in a world of flying islands - so i don't only have to be able to jump into the world and then die or respawn or whatever, i need to be able to jump between two floating islands. but so far i'd be happy to get the basic jumping done, which i am right now a bit of clueless

  • yep less crashes than with 99.91 on my end

  • i as an artist have to tell you, the other way around isn't easier either - i have no problem in finishing art to a decent and market ready level, but finding coders which are able to count on is hard, and if you found someone like that its most likely that he is filled with work and doesn't have too much free time

    so basicly to bribe someone like me to do the graphics for you, you#d need to sell me your game, this doesn't need graphics, it just has to work and i should be able to see that its worth putting time into

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  • jumping on the introduction train

    Hi i'm Steffen,

    Thomas Mahler brought me to construct as i was searching for a simple to use engine to do some game prototypen that doesn't force me to hire a coder for simple prototyping tasks.

    I'm a professional 3d character artist working in the games and moviesector for over 9 years now and i'm currently working on a game universe with the first version going to be made with udk.

    Unluckily our team consists of mostly professionals which makes certain things easier, but as everyone is in a studio and under production pressure (deadlines, crunchtime etc) it can happen that nothing moves on. As one of the biggest thing we'd need is code and out coder is sitting in the final stage of Brink, we are in such a nothing goes forward stage.

    So i wanted to try around with contsruct if i could do the whole adventure part in 2d, basic movement, player-npc interaction, basic quests, items etc. to get a feel of the pacing.

    Turns out its still harder for me as artist as i hoped it would be but hopefully i will still get some stuff done in 2d.

  • You can download a manual that i put together here -

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10216310/Costruct%20Manual.rar

    regards

    chrisbrobs

    thanks man! will dig deeper into that, though some screenshots might be helpful

    nevermind screenshots loaded longer than the text :O

  • i just did that yesterday, so you can definitely import a collisionmask

    import a sprite, switch to collisionmask, import again - done

  • Here's something I'd like to see (maybe even in 1.0?)

    Having the sprite be visible while you're working on the collision mask.

    why don't you just import a collision mask as well as the sprite itself? or do you mean you are painting the sprite inside construct? While this is possible i guess there are better/faster solutions around, i always thought of it more of a dummy solution to create some testcases or something, nothing too complex.

    • From my little experience with construct, i'd agree to the multiplattform exporter, iphone/android as cell platforms, as standalone and browser applet for PC/Mac/Linux, and possible the wiiware,psn,xbl
    • a possiblity to preview anims other than clicking from frame to frame or starting the game, especially to check the Hotspot

    -more to come when i worked a bit more with it

  • huge score on the multiple previews!

    i totally agree, thanks!

  • Ok i have it pretty much working, and already stumbled in the next problems.

    I feel really silly for asking that much of you guys as this tool is supposed to be very easy and i feel stupid for not getting along that much with it

    I can jump now and tweaked to a more or less "realistic" scale, its more of a hop but works when in movement, i don't want the player to be able to jump like 5 meters high and 10 meters wide. So what he does right now is jump pretty much as highas he is, 16px high platforms or no problem, 32px high should be a problem.

    But what happens right now is, i guess pretty much because of the lack of sorting and the needed smaller collision volume, is that the player can move way too far over the ledge of a surface.

    But see your self:

    http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/wip/neox/jumping.exe

    <img src="http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/wip/neox/jump2.png">

    http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/wip/neox/jump2.png

    of course one sort of fix would be to stop the player from jumping, pretty much like nintendo removed it from zelda atfer the links awakening i guess. but i can't take the air out of airborn, jumping, height and a windy feeling is part of the world and even if its just a small 2d prototype to get some planning done for the 3d version, it should somehow work out. And i feel pretty bad for not finding a way on my own

    The next issue is that i can't find a way to a: rotate the base like the 8direction behaviour does and b: then read that out to apply the according animations to the player sprite, i did this with the 8direction behaviour and i worked out really nice but i really have problems finding a way to do that with the custom movement behaviour.

    I played aroudn a lot more with some of the other premade premade plugins, and i have to say so far its a great piece of software you created here, if only i'd just be a bit more technically oriented

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    Edit

    hmmm just thinking as i don't have the need to sort the plateaus right, might it not be a more elegant/simple solution to just place some triggers around the plateaus rim, when on the trigger, looking in the right direction play some sort of generated animation that ignores the collision for the time of the animtion? so i don't have to care for depth based 3d fake solution?

    So is there a way to play some sort of anim, moving the base dependent on the trigger, X units to the side and Y Units down? same would work with jumping "up" a plateau, just playing the anim ignoring the collision of the rim of a plateau for the time of the animation?

  • Hmmm are there any documents that go a bit deeper into custom movement? i found a very small text about it in the wiki, but thats pretty much it

  • thanks guys for the fast backup!

    i don't think sorting will be much of an issue as i right now am planning on doing it pretty much the same way zelda did with minish cap http://gotymedia.gamespy.com/2005/image ... ishcap.jpg i guess they added this border basicly because of removing the need for sorting the platforms

    but the jumping part definitely gives me some good pointers, i already thought of another way of doing it, i will play around with both ways further

    thanks again!

  • Hello everyone,

    i'm currently playing around with construct building the basic movement patterns for some sort of RPG prototype, in fact i'm trying to build a 2d prototype of an already existing 3d game but as the coders are bound to strict crunchtimes its hard to get moving in 3d, so to test basic gameplay features and develop vertains things i'd like to use construct.

    Of course some things will change when moving to 3d, but basic stuff such as dialogues, shops, and riddles can still be planned in 2d.

    So far so good, what i have is the basic 8 direction movement working with animations, i have some plateaus working so i collide with them the player stops.

    As our 3d game is heavily based on a feeling of air, space, wind etc. jumping around on small plattforms is a huge part of the game. so what i have to be able to do is jump from one plateau down to another for example.

    basicly the 8 directions movement doesn support jumping as the plattformer does. I tried pluggin in the plattformer movement as well but it didn't work out as the player is falling down to the next blocking sprite.

    So what i need the jump to do is take the direction of the current movement and the current speed, then play some sort of jump animation (a sine or something, just a jump arc basicly). read the direction of the player out, toggle the collision of platforms to let the player pass through when standing in the right direction and if he jumps from a plateau not just move him horizontally but also move him down by X blocks (height of plateau).

    here is a quick demo graphic, i for now am using simple zelda sprites, once the base works i can exchange them with our actual content

    <img src="http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/wip/neox/jump.png">

    http://nonpublic.airborn-game.com/wip/neox/jump.png

    link for full size

    hope someone can help me

    thanks in advance

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