Tokinsom's Forum Posts

  • Wow. Minitroid's entire world map was 20000x20000 :P

    The size of the layout shouldn't affect anything, just what you put in it.

    I'm not sure if it'll work for your game but since mine use hundreds and hundreds of tiles I just stretch a canvas across the layout, then paste all the tiles into the canvas, then load the image from the canvas into a sprite object (because webgl and canvas don't go well together) and then delete the canvas and tiles - effectively turning hundreds of performance-killing tiles into 1 image.

    You don't want that 1 image to be too big though, so for the really big levels you might want to make a grid of canvases & sprite objects instead of just that one.

    Sounds crazy but I get a smooth 60fps with a bunch of particle FX and everything this way, whereas I used to get ~30 with just the tiles.

  • +1

    Being able to change the parallax origin at runtime will make parallaxing BGs for Metroidvanias (or any game with multiple rooms per layout) much easier. Currently I'm making my own with events and families and it's kind of a pain with the different object types and so on.

    It'll also allow you to set the parallax origin to the middle of a room or layout like it should be in the first place ;)

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  • Sounds like your graphics are too big or you're using too many tiles. Layout\layer effects are substantially better performance-wise than applying them to individual objects. How big are the levels? If your tiles don't NEED to be tiles I recommend pasting all of them to a grid of 1024x1024 or 2048x2048 canvases, then loading those images into blank sprite objects in the same fashion, then destroying both canvases and tiles.

  • Seems as responsive as ever. What browser are you testing the game in?

  • I'd deactivate the platform behavior, set a var to 1, and while that var is 1 move your player by angle(self.x,self.y,enemy.x,enemy.y) until collision, then restore platform behavior and set var to 0. Bada bing, bada boom. Don't forget to pick nearest enemy.

  • NP. You still have to add the file in the editor once but you can overwrite it outside of C2 afterwards.

  • Arima Actually you can use "Request URL" to get a project file by string e.g. "Room_A_1.tmx"

  • I'm gonna get a lot of flack for this but..

    It's not that those in this community don't have talent, skills, good ideas etc. or never made a large-scale game before. It's that C2 isn't designed for large-scale game development by any means. It's designed with the single hobby developer in mind.

    Everything about C2 is internal. The level editor, the event editor, the objects, the animations, the textures, the sounds. It's practically impossible to use C2 in a team and you know what teams offer? Large-scale games.

    We don't have massive areas and entire worlds or even (good) tile-based games because you can't use external level editors.

    We don't have heavy dialogue,inventories,world-maps,customizable characters, etc. because you can't really use external files. Project files are a temporary workaround at best.

    We don't have lots of sound effects and music because you can only import .wav PCM which must then be converted into an unorganized project-bloating super folder of sounds.

    We don't have solid, bug-free, ready-to-distribute games because all of that relies on 3rd party software seemingly shoehorned into C2 and forgotten about.

    "Oh, well just use a project folder instead!"

    Nope. You still have to add everything to your game inside the C2 editor else it's not recognized. So if you're in a team of 5, all building levels - each member will need a C2 license - all of the project's plugins - and the latest build, just to put his or her levels into the game. That applies to *everything*. There's SVN but that sounds like even more of a nightmare and I still don't see how C2 will pick up anything if it is added outside of the editor.

    That's not to say it isn't currently possible to make a large-scale game in C2 - I'm working on 2 right now - but it's a dreadful process and I'm not sure we're going to get much farther without a number of changes and additions to C2. I've already had to cancel two others.

  • 2) Just add 2 conditions.

  • Hey Ashley Sorry to bump but do you think this can be added soon? My team has been waiting patiently for over a month and it's getting to the point where we can't make much progress on our map without it. I don't like being nagged about it either ^^;

  • lol..The physics behavior is working pretty well with this, actually. All I need to figure out is how to get the ball to maintain a constant speed.

    Still open to event-only movements though, or perhaps something using the custom movement behavior.

  • Sounds a bit redundant don't you think?

  • I've been trying to make a ball movement similar to what you'd find in a breakout game and..wow, it's more difficult than I expected. Thing is, every example and tutorial I've found uses the bullet behavior which, unfortunately, is too wonky for an actual breakout game; the ball tends to "stutter" and teleport in tight areas and the bounce is not always accurate.

    That said, I was wondering if anyone has programmed or knows how to program their own ball movement with just events. I read through a few flash tutorials and came close, but I couldn't get an accurate bounce off the walls and bricks, just the paddle. Thanks for any help!

  • 1) TMX Importer (Can't make any of my games without it!)

    2) Canvas (Very useful for a number of things.)

    3) Sprite Font (Makes bitmap fonts super easy.)

    Would love to see official versions of these as they all have their quirks, especially with the latest C2 releases :<

  • procrastinator Well the player grabs the ledge every time now but it's not perfect.. your .capx might still be useful!

    — Will check out the example soon, I have to update C2 first.