Tokinsom's Forum Posts

  • No one is paying $2900 because no one will make over $100k. If by some miracle you do, you pay what, less than 3%? Quit be so incredibly selfish; if you had team mates you`d be paying them A LOT more. Maybe even half of your profits. Just saying.

  • That's just how point sampling works; it rounds to the nearest whole pixel, whereas linear sampling anti-aliases the sprite for smoother movement/scaling/rotation. Most 8 or 16 bit games didn't even use scaling spare like..Yoshi's Island or Metroid: Fusion and other GBA/DS games. Definitely not NES Megaman.

  • Oh, my bad. I use it in conjunction with the color replace shader so I can retrieve colors from palette images instead of entering the RGB values by hand. It's a huge time saver. I suppose it is sort of a niche feature but there are probably more useful things that can be done with it.

    Also thanks for adding the color replace shader! I was getting worried for a second there :)

  • Hmm well in CC I used it for swapping palettes and even rapid palette shifting on 3+ objects at once without any noticeable performance hits. Didn't seem to affect performance whatsoever, really. Can upload a video if you want :) I suppose it might be worse in C2 though. I understand your concern about people misusing it, but there are already many things that can cause performance issues if not used properly. Perhaps a warning could be issued if it really is that bad?

  • So the 74 shaders we got in r100 are totally awesome and so forth (no, really, I've been messing with them for like 2 hours straight ^^;) but there is no color replace shader as seen in CC. There were 6 paramaters; old RGB and new RGB. It was perfect for changing certain colors on a sprite, and palette shifting (think NES Megaman / NES Megaman charging).

    Is anyone else in need of / willing to write such a shader?

    (To my knowledge "set color" is the closest effect so far, but it affects the entire sprite. Cloning the sprite numerous times, erasing 1 color each, stacking them, and applying the set color effect seems to be the only option right now, but that's pretty inefficient.)

    Also, the Image Manipulator object in CC allowed you to retrieve the RGB value of a point on an image. Like if the color was solid blue on the x,y coordinates (5,10) it would return 0,0,255. It was great for using actual palette images instead of entering the RGB values by hand. Is that possible in C2? I haven't really kept up with the 3rd party plugins so..

  • Yeah I was wondering the same thing. Every game I've looked at has some drawn-out tutorial with VO and automation which pretty much turned me off from he whole thing. Very tedious :\</p>

  • Well I was told Image Offset wouldn't even be possible until shaders are added, and figured it'd be easier to implement as a shader than build in to the Tiled BG itself.

    As far as it only working on Chrome and FF...well, ya don't really want people playing your game on other browsers anyway ^^; Plus there's the .exe exporter (and Mac/Linux possibly) which I'll probably use exclusively for various reasons.

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  • True but that's a bit tacky and harder to pull off for something like "scrolling" fog on the topmost layer. I'm more interested in using it for tilesets, anyway. Individual frames is not the answer.

  • With the introduction of WebGL shaders in r100, will we be seeing the return of the "Image Offset" feature Tiled BGs had in Construct Classic as well? It was ideal for tilesets, infinitely scrolling backgrounds, etc.

    Better yet, could this be implemented as a shader that could work on not just Tiled BGs, but other objects as well?

  • 1)This should be in Tools/Resources

    2)Use GXSCC and chiptune artists will hate you forever. This is fact.

    Juuuust saying.

  • Kind of a crappy article if you ask me. It's somewhat misleading and incredibly vague.

  • Scirra has officially said that PhoneGap is unsuitable for making games.

    Should probably remove it from C2 entirely in that case.

  • LAN preview is pretty much useless. It's a quick way to see your game "running" on a mobile device but that's about it.

    If you want your C2 game on mobile devices you should look into CocoonJS. That's where it's at :)

  • There are thousands of musicians offering these services already. It's kinda what they do lol. Having a direct service like this on the Scirra site would be kind of cool I guess, but also impractical.

  • Practice practice practice.

    ..and observing other pixel art.