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  • I disagree about a chess game being really hard

    I think it would pretty simple actually

    Except for the AI, that would be hard

    I don't think there's been a chess game yet

    But I loved archon back in the c64 and amiga days, and had considered making a similar game myself for construct or android.

    I think you're thinking about the learning process the wrong way, though

    A burden?

    All the masterful masters of mastery on scirra that I can think of went through a period of asking questions all the time, occasionally simple noob questions, some more insightful.

    It is possible you're right and you just don't have the knack for understanding programming logic, but being from a board game design background I think you might have it in you, since you probably used to thinking in a step by step, rule based way about games. Start trying stuff and you'll probably have that Eureka! moment where it all starts to click. Do the ghost shooter tutorial

    Start a tic tac toe game, and if two seconds in you realize you don't know how to make an x appear where you click, then great, you have your first question. Good luck

    And just curious, you have an interesting name, may I ask which language/gender jurica is?

  • or give each one a private variable called "direction"

    Make one equal 1

    And one equal -1

    When you choose the xspeed to move

    Multiply it by direction

  • -player-is overlapping wall

    ---system compare--countmatching("wall") equal to 2

    ----------player-destroy

  • Interesting

    Also, I think the developer might be this guy:

  • Wow... that is very nice! I'd say multicore is an essential feature, otherwise you simply won't get the performance out of it, and quad cores are becoming more common, so a 4x speedup would be great. The resolution is a bit blocky, but the blur covers it up really nicely.

    Also, why hijack a sprite mesh? If you're using set distort map actions in the event sheet editor, that's going to hammer the performance unnecessarily. Why not have your plugin draw the mesh itself?

    I got the multicore working, I juust need to add the code to autodetect the number of cores

    As far as the distort mesh, I meant you could just set a sprite to apply it to like a behavior and it would do it behind the scenes without actions in the event editor. As far as why I don't do it myself. The only way id know how is to copy paste all the sprite code,

    Which I guess could work, but it'd still be cool for plugs to be able to hijack meshes, not just for this plugin. it would work well with davos ribbon plugin, for example

  • Totally off topic, but I always think alibash's sig is a redbull ad banner

  • thanks guys

    and you're welcome,

    btw here's the version with the blur effect so you can see how it looks:

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1013446/mantis/rocketblurred.rar

  • I think it's my favorite rnb song in years

    and it's insanely catchy, I find myself dancing to it even when it's only playing in my head

  • so first of all....sad story, but look at the brother, what a caricature:

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    and now look what someone did, I had no idea there was such talent in the world:

  • here goes a particle visualization, a very different look and feel, using the same parameters used for the smoke before, but using particles to visualize:

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1013446/mantis/rocketfluidparticles.rar

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  • goodness quazi

    you're f'in brilliant

    not too mention the eventing skill

    I can actually see how it all works, or at least how it can be done

    but that makes it all the more impressive

    the idea of taking it to that level of polish in what was undoubtedly some insane events sheets is just sickening

    if I have any complaints, it would just be that alot of the stuff isn't too intuitive, like the editor, but can't complain, I'm sure the deadline was pressing

    and good job davio, too. the music and art are perfect

    when you guys are ready to start an indie dev company with me, let me know

    seriously

    hope you win, man...not sure what the prize is, but I hope it's good

    if not, still worth it

  • yeah, it takes alot of cpu power though

    also, I was doing some experimentation, and horizontal plus vertical blur makes a big difference I'll upload that later

    also, the main thing stopping the quality from being at least a little better is construct won't let me split the sprite up into more pieces, also, I'm going to check with the devs again if they can add something to sprite to allow plugins to change the distort map

    right now for the smoke to be resolution 100x100 (right now it's calculating that, but it's only displaying 50x50, to do 100x100 it would take 10,000 calls to the set distort map action, construct is just not fast enough to run that many commands per tick

    the cpu overload would still be there but it would take alot less action calls if one step could set the entire distort map.

    also, this is only one method of visualizing the fluid, you could also have particle effects that come on when the is a certain density, or even no visualization for the fluid itself, but leaves blowing in the wind, or plankton being carried on a current through water

    the plugin just calculates the fluid, it doesn't display anything. what you're seeing on the screen is a sprite with a distort map

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