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Hey Guys,
Try doing something like this to start off with, it's a good way to work out angles and how to space out the animation.
http://www.mastersystem.org/misc/star.gif
^ These are the stars that you need to collect to stay alive in my game, so no-one steel it! :D - It took me about 15 mins to do this animation so was much simpler and a better place for people to start I guess! It consists of just 4 frames.
RipX
You could have done it in about 3 minutes in a 3D program :) It would require some slight touching up to make it perfect though.Quote:
Originally posted by RipX
Hey Guys,
Try doing something like this to start off with, it's a good way to work out angles and how to space out the animation.
http://board.flashkit.com/board/
^ These are the stars that you need to collect to stay alive in my game, so no-one steel it! :D - It took me about 15 mins to do this animation so was much simpler and a better place for people to start I guess! It consists of just 4 frames.
RipX
Nice star though. Why the black BG? :)
you are right RipX, it's not that easy to write something like that (without 3D prog, but what about the pixelisated look if you use a 3D prog, you still have to convert it...)
i'm curretly redoing my character, adding some details, correcting the walk animation by myself..
i have something in mind, RipX you should know what i'm talking about, master system man; a shinobi 1-like game.
(maybe your engine is perfect for that :-)
Well, thanks for the comments, I know it would look far better done in a 3d program but I haven't got a damn clue how to use those damn things, I mean look at Donkey Kong Country!!! Anyway, It looks good and I suppose it shows more work has been put into the sprites! :p
Anyway, I put it on the black background cos I knew the flashkit forum color would clash and look daft, my version is transparent!!
RipX
Sure marmaotte, the shinobi game sounds like a good idea and would work well with my engine, and yes I do have the original Master System version, I don't know if you mean for us both to do it or not, If you mean for us both, then I'd have to decline in favour of my game, but if you need help with your tile engine or testing etc, just shout me and i'll surely try to help you!Quote:
Originally posted by marmotte
you are right RipX, it's not that easy to write something like that (without 3D prog, but what about the pixelisated look if you use a 3D prog, you still have to convert it...)
i'm curretly redoing my character, adding some details, correcting the walk animation by myself..
i have something in mind, RipX you should know what i'm talking about, master system man; a shinobi 1-like game.
(maybe your engine is perfect for that :-)
RipX
ok, i think it's better than before ^^
now even with an animated gif it looks good. some tiny pixel changes are missing though, but i'm satisfied of the movment.
http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_exchange/running.gif
That looks much better than last time!! :D
I just updated my swf too: we seem to time everyupdate together! lol
http://www.mastersystem.org/misc/run_ani.html
RipX
lookin good marmotte, though i think it would be a little more realistic if the arms didnt extend so far.
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good sprite art and pixel skill
yeah really nice marmotte :) .. Ripx, I like your one eyed alien :D
Yeah, someone got it right! Thanks. lol - I've sat tidying it up even more today, cos I'm a perfectionist saddo, anyway, I don't know if anyone has reaslised they can now make the character move in my swf!!! :)
RipX
thanks people ^^
it will be better animated with a background i think.
RipX, i have a question: how do you manage to put your enemies in your tile based game?
are they attached depending on your position in the stage? how do you check that? i know how to do it, but it's a little bit cpu intensive, no?
or maybe it's just me, i never created a tile-based interactive world...
A thousand times better :) That weight thing looked as though it did the trick, he has much more realism now.Quote:
Originally posted by marmotte
ok, i think it's better than before ^^
now even with an animated gif it looks good. some tiny pixel changes are missing though, but i'm satisfied of the movment.
http://board.flashkit.com/board/
Ripx, I think your little fella moves to slowly, other than that hes cool :)
Well cos the engine uses gotoAndStop I won't load them straight in when the initial map is generated, this will cause problems later with things appearing again once the screen is scrolled off and back on, So what i'm going to do is make a seperate array to hold the stars and enemy plotting data.
Now i'll use the new array to load the enemies and stars etc into the container clip in their relevant places and basically use the _visible method for the enemies and stars. If I pick up a star for example, I'll make it goto to a totally empty frame and because this won't change, it wont reappear! :)
RipX
markp.com, thank you ^^
here's another running animation, with several pixel changes, it looks a tiny bit better i think.
RipX, i wish i could draw an engine as "perfect" as you. i always did art based games, that's why i'm not too good with tile based... i have to improve ^^
http://board.flashkit.com/board/
http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_e...nning_back.png
ok, the reason it doesn't look quite right is because it's all so perfect and squared off! Try to use the bevel tools to soften out some of the edges and hard lines. Also those tiles you have in your example arn't the best, If you think about the essence of tile engine games, they were all trying their best to eliminate monotonous looking levels. This meens that using the same tile over in a row wouldn't look as good as adding a tile with a cracked crate for example, now on the cracked crate you may but a piece of newspaper in front of it to add some variety?!?!?
On that point, the most of each different tile, should be exploited to the fullest. One thing that I would totally notice on your example is the wall in the background, you need to make some broken bricks/grafiti or windows! It does look so much like a Master System game!!!
I'm not saying I can do it but i've been looking at tile games and worked this out!! :D
RipX
oh, no prob RipX, it was just here to have a background environment, i'm aware it's not good for now ^^
but thanks anyway, of course if i use such a background later it will be infinitly more detailed, believe me. my goal now is to have a functional character.
btw, that's right it look so much like a master system game, but... mmmhhh, why not after all?
i'll see when the character will be finished...
about the character, i added a stop and stand animation to my swf, i'm satisfied with it (semi-awful background included also :-D)
http://board.flashkit.com/board/
http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_exchange/stand.gif
http://www.marmotte.levillage.org/_exchange/running.swf
The new animation looks great but the character seems to "grow" when you stop running in the swf!
RipX
well, not really growing, but stopping... look at his legs...
Yeah looks good! Looks like he's looking up, getting ready for some action, or sussing out the situation :)Quote:
Originally posted by marmotte
well, not really growing, but stopping... look at his legs...