zatyka's Forum Posts

  • I couldn’t resist entering MiniLD 50 once I found out the theme was Demakes. I ended up with Super Jump Man, a demake of Super Mario 64. It contains a single, relatively large world, with 7 stars to collect. The game definitely has its flaws, but I’m quite happy with how it turned out. Keyboard and Xbox controller are supported, the Xbox controller is a far better experiences in my opinion.

    If you know the move set for Mario 64 (triple jumps/high jumps/long jumps/etc), you'll pick the controls up easily. I hope you enjoy!

    Play the Game

    Ludum Dare Page

    Keyboard Controls:

    Arrow keys to move

    Down to Crouch

    Z to Run

    X to jump

    C to attack

    R to restart

    M to Toggle music

    Xbox Controller (requires Chrome or stand alone version:

    Left Analog

    L or R Trigger to Crouch

    X to Run

    A to Jump

    B to Attack

    Start to toggle music

  • erec91

    I haven't written any tutorial. I'm happy to answer questions regarding how it works, but writing a full tutorial is not something I'm interested in at this time.

  • zatyka

    moral dilema on what? you created it didnt you?it is entirely up to you.

    and i have seen your tutorials and you ROCK!

    so i do not understand why not share knowlege and help people out as long of course they deserve it and give back to the community.

    but anyways thank you for your time and effort.

    i will try my best to figure this out

    Cesarzevil essentially bought the capx from me by translating the tutorial. The moral dilemma is giving away a capx, or information about the capx, that he spent his time/effort for. It's like someone hiring an artist to do graphics for a game, and the artist selling the graphics to someone else. Cesarzevil and I didn't discuss exclusivity, so you can make the argument that the capx still belongs to me, but it's his as far as I'm concerned. You can always petition him to share/sell it.

    I'm glad you're finding my tutorials useful. I'm generally happy to help people out, especially if they contribute to the community, but this is a special scenario.

  • FYI - I updated my earlier post to reflect an improved capx that attempts frame rate independence.

    arthymon

    You can delete X elements of the array to clear it, but be sure to leave at least 1 X element with valid coordinates (usually the starting position of the character). If you completely delete the array, the game will read a non-existent element as 0.

  • DUTOIT

    cesarzevil did this translation, and I sent him the Capx. I'm not sure what he did with it after that.

    Roccinio

    If you want the Capx, you'll need to request it from cesarzevil. I find myself in a moral dilemma. While I'd like to help you, I feel somewhat obligate to not divulge how the movement works despite there being no agreement between me and cesarzevil to that end. Hopefully a high level overview is enough to get you started. There are 2 states to the movement:

    • The rope is firing - Increase the rope's width until it collides with a surface it should stick to.
    • The player is pulled in the direction of the rope - Once the rope is attached to a surface, calculate the appropriate force to add to the player's dx and dy so it moves towards the point in which the rope collides with the surface.

    It's more complicated than that, but this should be enough to get you started. Make sure you're familiar with loops and basic trig, as they're integral to achieving the effect.

  • For each sprite, use their Y position to project the X intercept coordinate of the force field. If Sprite.X is less than the projected X, move it to a layer above the force field. Otherwise, move it to a layer below.

    Demo

    Capx

  • edgaredgar

    Have you considered using separate sprite object(s) specifically for collision? Each potential collision polygon would need to be programed in, but it would give you more flexibility without a huge file size increase.

  • The problem is with your events. When not moving, you're continually starting the animation to it's current frame. So if the instance stops moving while it's frame is 1, your events will continually set the animation frame to 1, making it look like the animation isn't playing at all. When the Pacman instance is moving, events are no longer continually setting the animation frame, so the animation plays normally.

  • There is no way currently. This has been requested once or twice before, but I don't think there has been a response from Ashley. Hopefully it's on the to do list.

  • Ashley

    I tested the above capx with r157. It looks like the appropriate tiles are available when making the tilemap larger, but when making the tilemap smaller, tiles that fall outside the object's dimensions are still displayed. When the above Capx is run, I would expect the top tilemap instance to only display 1 row of tiles.

    Is this intended behavior for the tilemap object?

  • Link to .capx file (required!):

    Capx

    Steps to reproduce:

    1. Add a tilemap object to the project.

    2. Create an instance of the tilemap in the layout.

    3. Add events to re-size tilemap.

    4. If making a tilemap instance larger, add events to set tiles that should now be visible/available. If making a tilemap instance smaller, add events to set the tiles that should no longer be visible/available.

    5. Preview the Capx

    Observed result:

    The visible/available tiles do not change at runtime. The debugger confirms the width and height of the instance changes, but the visible tiles suggests otherwise.

    When running the above capx, the top tilemap instance displays a 2nd row of tiles. The bottom tilemap instance does not display a cactus at tilemap position 0,2.

    Expected result:

    Resizing a tilemap instance at run time updates the displayed/available tiles according to the instance's new size, similar to how the tilemap instance behaves in the editor.

    When running the above capx, the top tilemap should only display a single row of tiles since the instance's height was reduced to the height of a single tile. The bottom tilemap should display a cactus at tilemap position 0,2) since the instance's height was increased to 4x the height of a single tile.

    Browsers affected:

    Firefox: yes

    iOS: yes

    Operating system & service pack:

    Windows 7 64 bit SP1

    iOS 7.0.4

    Construct 2 version:

    r156

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  • FYI, there's an excellent userscript created by BadgerPriest that generates a performance chart on any LD author's page. Here's a link to his post with the file, and basic installation instructions. With the script installed, here's what my author page looks like:

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  • I ran into this limitation with one of my projects. I got around it by changing the canvas size to match the image size, taking a snapshot, then going back to the normal canvas size.

  • You can take dt into account when recording player movements and replaying them with another object. Take a look at this example. The example is for a braid-like rewind effect that takes dt into account when recording/rewinding. It could easily be modified to create a doppelganger effect. Instead of "rewinding" the recorded movement data, you can just replay the recording on a delay.

    If the game's frame rate differs greatly when recording vs. rewinding, the replay can look choppy, but you could probably smooth it out by tweening the recorded data.