Mikal's Recent Forum Activity

- Mikal
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- 11 Nov, 2018
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Cool, clean UI, looking forward to seeing more.
- Mikal
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- 11 Nov, 2018
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Cool art, is that second image animated? To the embers/sparks cascade down around the PC, would be nice to see that.
- Mikal
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- 10 Nov, 2018
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Normal Map & Sprite Bake Studio (Unity 3D Model Animation -> Sprites. Added a Normal Map Shader pass to Sprite Bake Studio to generate Sprite Normal Maps.)

Tech for lighting a Bambi forest fire like scene.
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- Mikal
- - Joined 22 Apr, 2016
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- 9 Nov, 2018
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Added the option for the hard Spotlight effect to all three lights in version 1.4 (latest versions with examples on the addon repo.)
- Mikal
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Hack the NormalMap effect to get a hard edge, so it looks like a spotlight effect, based on some fun stuff from jmw327 (@jmw327) on Twitter that was shared in the Construct Discord. Andre' also made a really cool version.
- Mikal
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- 9 Nov, 2018
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Hack the effect to get a hard edge, so it looks like a spotlight effect, based on some fun stuff from jmw327 (@jmw327) on Twitter that was shared in the Construct Discord. Andre' also made a really cool version.

Here's the _hack_ to the effect.fx if you want to play with it:
//Determine distance (used for attenuation) BEFORE we normalize our LightDir float D = length(LightDir); //Hard limit for NormalMap, beyond this distance, go dark D = (D < dLimit) ? D : 1000.0;
- Mikal
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- 6 Nov, 2018
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Really cool. Can something like this be achieved with this effect?

https://twitter.com/jmw327/status/1058881134849863682

It may be able to get close. You'll really need to carefully create the normal maps (in terms of anticipated light direction) for each plane of the building to make it work (and the building would need to be made of multiple sprites and normal maps.) Not a trivial amount of artist work.
- Mikal
- - Joined 22 Apr, 2016
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- 6 Nov, 2018
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macube mOOnpunk tatogame Try again, it wasn't properly 'published' before.
- Mikal
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- 4 Nov, 2018
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Please post any website issues to the website issue tracker.

Done.
- Mikal
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- 2 Nov, 2018
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Fun stuff, I remember this game, it's so satisfying to carve out rooms. One of the most interesting things is emergent behavior of your monsters vs the incoming "PCs" - what are you thinking in terms of AI, etc.? It feels like you can actually go stronger here then the original - if C3 had access to some the latest ML/DNN tech, etc. hmmm...
- Mikal
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- 2 Nov, 2018
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Ashley - I submitted a new addon, but it's not showing up in the addon repo general listing (it's an effect.) I can directly link to it, but it's not part of the general or effect list.
Here's the direct link:

construct.net/en/make-games/addons/194/normalmapextended
- Mikal
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- 2 Nov, 2018
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Working further on the C3 runtime example, I have a new version which looks to work well across platforms (iOS, MacOS, Windows) and uses the Viewport* and Platform.DevicePixelRatio expressions, but does not use the confusing (and to be deprecated) Window* expressions. I updated the link above with the new C3 runtime example.

Updated for C2, C3 runtimes and added to addon repo

construct.net/en/make-games/addons/194/normalmapextended