Well to be honest, I don't know lol. My monster PC lives at my friends house since I am there frequently, I get to use it more there than if it were at home. I will check it out next time I go to visit him, which will most likely be Friday night at this point. I'm guessing around 400+ fps?

~Sol

Your title screen is already really awesome! However it is a little static and some objects fading in and out or moving around never hurts

Yeah I already made (by complete accident) a cool plasma effect that I will put on the end of her gun arm. I was also thinking of having some homing missiles chase the mouse cursor around, and then when you click they will home in on the "target" and explode... so you might click "start game" for example and the missiles will smash into the "start game" and blow it up, then the game will start.

I still like the effect you achieved with this screen... I can stare at it for hours!

~Sol

Nice one link! Cheers for that.

GG fellas. Will download later today when I get home

A workaround could possibly be to use invisible "detector" objects which are spawned relative to the number of "ramp" objects. The detector object would not need to be loaded from a file, it would be built into the runtime, therefore the collision mask would stay as "per-pixel". You could then tie the detector to the object being loaded from file using some simple events (detector.xy = object.xy).

This was a trick I used to apply (when I used MMF2) to objects that I wanted to collide with other things using different effects etc. for whatever reason.

~Sol

Cheers deadeye

1. I get that same error on another PC I have as well... I have no idea what it is or what causes it, but yeah, the game still works anyway. The other 8 or so systems I have tried it on, it works fine. Weird :/

2. I tried locking the angle, but then I get the same problem I had with trying to get her head to do the same thing.... she will only aim to the right no matter which way you face. It's like the angle is locked based on the original direction the sprite is facing or something like that. If you could throw together a real fast CAP file of something working where you can still move around at the same time I would be grateful beyond belief!

3. I could easily change the arm to the other arm... never really thought about that acctually... it would certainly look less awkward when aiming to the rear. I tried making it so the character looked in the direction of the mouse (which would have simply turned her around when you aim "behind"), but then it starts rotating it on 360� even if I turn rotation off... and I have decided I want to stick with just plain left and right... so aiming at the mouse won't work, at least the way I am trying to get it to work. :/

4. I have been meaning to adjust the speed of the missiles to make them faster. The play area will be much larger in the final game, so her fast movement speed won't make the level seem so small, but trust me when I say, you will NEED that speed once you see what is coming after you It's one of those things I haven't bothered to tweak even though it takes 2 seconds lol.

Cheers heaps for the input... I will start trying to make adjustments to things, but I am hoping to work out the angle restriction thing, yet still be able to change directions as well. If you want I can always send you the CAP file so you can check out what I have done so far etc, or I can make a quick simple example and see if we can work it out. I'm seriously stuck on that, hense why I made due with another idea (which hasn't quite turned out just right).

Thanks again mate!

~So

So like, I heard Rich was making that online multiplayer plugin

~Sol

So, I'm working on my game, and I have it set up to where it will load the tile-sets for maps externally. The problem arises when the images are loaded during run-time using the sprite's "Load animation from file" action. Whenever they are loaded like this, the collision mask remain unchanged, even when they are set to per-pixel. This poses problems when the loaded tile is a ramp, but the collision mask remains a square. Is this by design, or is this a bug that needs to be fixed? Thanks.

I do believe you can change the collision mode during runtime as well... have you tried that, or did you try to change the item properties in the design view?

You could always make a psuedo motion blur effect... kind of like the Johnny Cage kick from the original Mortal Kombat game, where it basically shadows an image as it moves along. You could do this with a copy of your sprite that has the fade effect applied to it, and have your main sprite "spawn" the copied fade sprite as it moves along.

I will be making something similar for my characters "dash" attack, so if you aren't sure what I am talking about, check my thread in the Creations section in the next few days... It is on my to-do list for the next few additions.

Whoa!!!

I did not know it was that expensive...Nevermind for now lol I'll stick with my Paint.NET and GIMP lol.

Well, for more simple work you can always get Photoshop Elements... it has most of the main features of Photoshop but leaves out some stuff that will typically only be used by very advanced users or professionals. I use it for commercial design work as well as doing stuff like spriting, so I have the expensive version. You should be able to get elements for around $150 AUD (I guess it depends where you live) as opposed to the $2000 AUD or so for CS3.

Sorry if this has been asked already, but I couldn't find it anywhere...

The minimap would be even more awesome if you could insert little graphics or icons in place of the plotted "dots". I know you can make certain things different colours and all, but having main objectives as a ! or T for "target" etc would be very useful. Not sure how hard this would be, but if it's easy enough to just throw in there somewhere I would be extremely grateful.

~Sol

I am trying to reproduce the problem, but so far I have not had a crash or anything... can you make a step by step description of what you did to make it happen so I can try to reproduce it?