This is fantastic. The feeling of movement is really nice. What kind of game are you making?
Tried that. I'm fairly certain I will have to write a new sprite material. Throwing that in my ToDo as its not essential at the moment.
Step one towards uniting the chopper game with the boat game!
Heh, digging it
Hopefully! xD However, doing all this stuff makes all of the difference!... That's what I thought... ;D
I love that what you're doing is totally unique. When it actually turns up, it'll be worth the wait!!
Well, I've been trying to create a placeholder animation thing for human characters in Spriter, using the existing platformer essentials animations as a base and drawing the parts in Inkscape to create this featureless 'green man' with more realistic proportions compared to the platformer parts (once again using said parts as a base, while redrawing them to conform to the new proportions) - I'd use the default parts, but I'm not terribly fond of their proportions, even the smaller head isn't small enough. The end result ended up breaking the existing animations, so I might as well start from scratch. Oh, and the character I made has a proper animated neck, too. The idea was sorta to create a 'Tron' like character with minimal features.
And then I tried to animate the parts. The idle animation seemed to work reasonably well. The walk animation... Eh...
Ya see, this is why I'd much prefer having a proper animation person to work with, haha. Even the parts don't look terribly good!
Yeah, I had a feeling that was the problem, wasn't quite sure how to pull it off without messing up the walk cycle, but... Somehow, I actually managed to pull it off.the head/body needs to bob up and down. there are great templates/tutorials for walk cycles if you google a lil bit.
Yep, I was going to say body motion but someone beat me to it.Yeah, I had a feeling that was the problem, wasn't quite sure how to pull it off without messing up the walk cycle, but... Somehow, I actually managed to pull it off.
Probably not remotely perfect, but it looks so much better. The pic you showed was a great example, it really helped a lot, thanks.
It even wraps round things! 
Many common oscillators do produce phase errors leading to Since for one scanline the u (Y'uv, uv croma information of the signal)Ropes are actually pretty cool. They are hard to control, esp. the end ofSuper Something Squad has... rope!! ...
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Edit: The RGB picture for comparison.
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Many cool things to come!
Yeah, I had a feeling that was the problem, wasn't quite sure how to pull it off without messing up the walk cycle, but... Somehow, I actually managed to pull it off.
Probably not remotely perfect, but it looks so much better. The pic you showed was a great example, it really helped a lot, thanks.
Yes. This is known as a Skybox. In Unity you can just provide the 6 textures and it'll wrap them around the camera for you.
Here is a Screenshot Saturday of our latest game.
Glad you like it. :+ What are you after with the shaders and stuff, somethingThat's super sexy
I think the next thing I'll start learning to use in GMS is the use of surfaces and shaders
Will be cool nevertheless. And I think the rope will also add some inclusiveYeah, it's a handful.
I'm not concerned too much about it being the best rope ever. And, if it does some weird things.. Well, that's part of the charm
The weight at the end of the rope doesn't directly affect the chopper. The attach point of the rope to the chopper just tracks the chopper. I'll add an artificial force when he picks things up. Trying to manage a swinging weight and flyability of the chopper would have been very difficult!
Here is a Screenshot Saturday of our latest game.
I dig this so much. This is excellent stuff!Edit: The RGB picture for comparison.
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Here is my first attempt for a CRT TV displaying a PAL video signal. The very
first version here basically implements the core PAL signal modulation/
demodulation process via two dual-sideband-suppressed-carriers, arranged in
quadrature as the engineers would say, with some special luminance and chroma
filtering applied to the Yuv color signal.
It's just a start, many things need to be done. For example, currently there
is no phase alternation (PAL :<=> Phase Alternate Line). Hence, the PAL signal
here is 'perfectly' demodulated, i.e. a perfect local oscillator with no phase
drift whatsoever is at the works, which wasn't the case back then in many of
the old TVs. I will address this point while implementing NTSC which basically
requires me to not display the same color twice on each scanline. xD Yeah, a
classic one.
slight color drifts on a scanline. Hence, a picture on an old NTSC TV shows
some graded color shading and there isn't much help of the system to counter
act it. Even the so-called Color Burst (sync pulse, or pilot tone (stereo
radio)) wasn't enough. For example, the right side of such an TV may slightly
be covered in a red tint (depending on the oscillator drift). But you know
what? PAL essentially has the same issue! So you can counter act the argument
now.
oscillator phase is 90 degrees ahead of v. Yet for the next scanline the
situation is reversed and u trails 90 degrees behind and so on. However, this
doesn't make the problem go away all of a sudden but it ensures that any
oscillator drift has an opposite effect on alternating scanlines. So where is
the trick? Well, you won't see the color drift while sitting on the other side
of the room! Your eyes basically blend the phase error away (within certain
limits, of course). That was the trick with PAL in yielding better color. But
the NTSC guys had a striking advantage; 60Hz (30fps even/odd, instead of 50Hz
PAL with 25fps even/odd) which made a difference in some games (fast games,
racing games). Anyhow, one can build a 60Hz PAL signal as well by lowering the
scanlines, which could be done by the PS2 (EU) for example.
Yet there is much more to do and I could write odds and ends about it, but I'm
not sure whether many here are interested in technical stuff even if they can
understand all of what's written. Anyhow, everything here will result in some
pictures, luckily.
Btw; There is also a ringing effect implemented you won't recognize from the
still image shown.
Many cool things to come!
Thanks you guys
As you have probably guessed, it's a 2D shooter. Left stick controls the pilot and right stick controls the gunner. There's a lot more to it than that though but I'd rather talk more about gameplay features as we are able to show them.
FWIW, I'm going with 64x64 for my game.
Is your game 2D? That CPU will not be able to handle much.
