smooth scrolling back ground anyone??

[magnetos]

i have been trying a while now but i can't seem to make the background scrolling smoothly any ideas or maybe some example??

look at the gsame at
http://digilander.iol.it/magneto1/test2.swf
still in development

you ll see the background flickering everytime its duplicated


well hope somebody can help

thanx a lot

magneto

[OkieDokies]

Thats your whole problem! A scrolling background:

I'll give you credit for one thing, and that is that the artwork is fairly decent. Other then this, you could fall asleep playing this thing.

I just don't see any fun in something that performs rather pathetic; slow movement, terrible key controls, a scrolling bg that moves on the count of each second. *sigh*

Give a frame rate of 50, make the movie transparent, and LOSE the scrolling background!

I guarantee you a much speedier performance.

[mbenney]

mate, all i have seen you do is abuse people on this board... do you actually have any work of your own to prove you dont just talk out of your @$$

[magnetos]

ok i accept the critics (although very rude)
you have to consider 2 things though

1 ) i am a newbie
2) the game is still at its early stage is not finished yet
3) you din't really answer my question you just tell me to forget all about it
4)like mbenny said "do you have anything better that i can compare it to???"or are you all mouth?
5)i lied the things to consider were 5 (including this)

see this my first attempt on making a game in flash
and i'll do it my way wether you like it or not dude!!

well

hope anybody can help with the question anyway

magnetos

[mbenney]

well as much as i agree that that guy is a complete twat, he does have a point. scrolling backgrounds take up a LOT of cpu. and (at the moment) a scrolling bg doesnt give much to your game, if you took it out it would let you have without slowing down...
1. better background artwork
2. more graphical enemies with better flight plans

oh, and another tip, make the enemies bullets a separate movie clip with separate hitTests because if you hit the bullet then the ship blows up too, it just doensnt look real. and tone down the sounds ... they are a bit overpowering (especially the explosion) this is not abuse, just criticism and encouragement, you have a good base here.
keep it up
./m

[magnetos]

thanx mbenney i much appreciate your imput

i have a p3 600mhz and it doesn't seems too slow to me
i guess if you have anything less it would look slow
but i am not really worry about that for now
what i am really worry is the game designing
you right about the scrolling background but i think it looks nice nevertheless..
as for the bullets you are absolutly right i'll have to fix that (somehow)

i ll work on this for now and then i'll work on the boss
level


i don't know much AC so i learn some as i go along
but i willing to share my work
so if anybody wants to help is welcome except of course the "twat"

i still want to make that scrolling background working!!!
even if i am gonna have to use a static one later on!!

if you or anybody here has any url with game similar to mine please give it to me i would love to see some other people work and learn a few tricks

ciao

magnetos

[DJ-Anakin]

i have a game with simmilar concepts. its at:

http://www.monkeyclean.com/games/battleofhoth

I have not updated it in about a month, so it is way, way better now. like i said, i just havnt uploaded it.. workin on one more bug...

nyways.. check it out..

[magnetos]

nice game dj anakin i like it

i wonder if i could take a peep at the fla?

thanks

magnetos

[neosound]

i know your problem!

you dont have the background resetting at the right moment...
you have you figure out when do you reset the background so it creates the illusion of a continuous background...

other than that, the game was sweet...

[mbenney]

DJ-Anakin, i really dont get your game! is it playable yet?

[magnetos]

ok guys i have the main ship which fires a laser(mc)
everytime i push ctrl

but i am having some problem making the anemy ships firing
continuosly with their own lasers

can you help me???


thanks a lot guys !!!


magnetos

[DJ-Anakin]

benney, like i said earlier, i havnt updated it in about a month. its just been one of those side projects, and its goin slowly. its way cooler now. if i can say that. way cooler? hmm.. anyways..

magnetos, i got just about all the coding from here on the boards. i just ised different codes that i had already made, and integrated alot of them with ones i had from here. the code wouldnt make sense if anyone else looked at it. i REALLY need to clean it up. but, everything pretty much came from here, or can be found out ala the boards.. maybe ill work on it later today.. one thing that has really een slowin me down is that the atst walks too slow. thats cause i originally drew him out in flash, at a size of about 300 x 700, then when i made the game i just resized the indivdual MC's. so, really i need to go redo it much smaller and reset all the tweening of the movements.

one more thing. for the laser firing, try using a random number generator, say 1-4, generate a number say, every 2 secs, if the # is 4, fire.. if 1, 2, or 3, don't fire.. just an idea

monkeyboy
[Edited by DJ-Anakin on 08-19-2001 at 03:01 PM]

[Denni]

I actually thought this was pretty good. Yes, the scrolling thing is always trouble, but just like everything else, it can be overcome. Keep working on it. Also, setting your framerate at 50 is stupid. That doesn't solve the problem, so don't listen to that crap.
The main prob with this is the image itself. Filesize is a major keyfactor.
Anyways, good luck
Denni

[magnetos]

hey guys no prob i solved the problem
the picture is a mc which has a mc inside which has the jpg picture inside

i used the transform tool and i made sure that all the instances were all the same size

works fine now
hope this can help somebody

ciao
magnetos

[danny71]

Just to add to this thread...
If the scrolling Bg was removed the appearance of flight would be lost.
I think it looks friggin killer.

[magnetos]

Originally posted by danny71
Just to add to this thread...
If the scrolling Bg was removed the appearance of flight would be lost.
I think it looks friggin killer.

well thanks danny for resurecting this thread it makes me feel alive again