EDIT: Also, in case you were wondering, i am using Construct version 99.83

i think there's issues with that version, does it still happen in 82?

seems to work under the same principal as quasiblobs, although i assume theyd use a custom made shader with better control over attributes than a simple Colourise. all you need really is a shader than can control whats displayed using a hard falloff curve, and the overlapping of the gradients creates the meta-ball effect. a custom shader for quaziblobs would be of great use because then you wouldnt have to layer a bunch of effects to get the desired colorings ect, colourise is really limited but i used it because well, it was the only option, and i played with other effects and blob colours for different shading levels to get the optimal look. with a custom shader this PJ type effect would be 100% possible. if anyones interested in writing it id be gald to help em know what the specifics about what it needs to do are, and write a tutorial so everyone can know how to do the effect.

Don't get my post wrong. The reason we were trying to avoid your method was simply, you'd done it already. We were curious what other ways could work.

Game art as it relates to Construct (such as how to import and best optimization practices, etc.) or art in general?

Construct related things really, optimization and so on. Art in general would be reserved for books I'd insist on selling

I think I said in the now deleted duplicate thread about using separate hitboxes. So yeah, seems to be the best/easiest way.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of art related tutorials would folk here find the most useful?

Art, not animation. Learn to walk before you can run and all that.

Ah, it was 91 seconds, didn't realise (I don't think I ever trigger it because being an admin disables it). I set it to 30 seconds. Hopefully that's more convenient.

Edit: moved to Open Topic

Awesome, thanks Ashley! I'd mention the time limit on searches too, but I know lowering that does put a strain on the database, lol.

There used to be an ability for the 3D Box to steal sprite images as textures, but I think it was changed/fixed at some point.

Ha, I remember this. A bunch of us had a long convo about it in chat a while back and tried to come up with methods of doing it in construct (while trying to avoid Quazi's method). Ultimately Davo came up with a pretty much working solution of sorts, and with a special effects shader it could certainly come close.

Some good stuff there! Just giving the thread some love since it seems to have been ignored, and some of the newer users who wont have seen the thread, might find these useful in their games.

I got tired of waiting for a Crocodile Dundee reference, so i made one myself.

Welcome back from walkabout Davo!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/666516/Hopabout.exe

Haha, that's brilliant!

> I never understand people who just *skip skip skip skip* all the way through, then wonder why they think "THIS GAME WAS CRAP!" It's like putting a DVD in... pressing play.... then skipping all the way to the credits.

>

Some games make me feel like I'm watching a DVD.

That can't be right.

I'm not thinking "THIS GAME WAS CRAP!", I'm thinking "WHEN DO I GET TO PLAY?"

That's it, exactly. Nothing wrong with cut-scenes if that's what they are, a cut-scene. It's when it's a short film in the middle of the action and can't be skipped that gets annoying.

yes my first gfx remake was barbarian then batman.

I've also remade the gfx of gordiantomb for tdbsoft (like barbarian)

and i am currently working on a goonies remake

you can see and play it there:

http://www.thegoonies.zxq.net

For popeye, no, this is not the spectrum one with screen sized sprites but the nintendo one playable on MAME.

Review in french here: http://www.grospixels.com/site/popeye.php

I want to add some extra levels ... if you are interested .... )

Ahh shame, the speccy one was great, never played the Nintendo one. I would love to help, but alas I've got too much on, otherwise I'd jump on it like an alcoholic jumps on a bottle of JD. I love remakes of these old games!

Remember the uproar Barbarian caused back then too? I wonder what the censors of the day would make of todays games