thanks, I'm like 2 hours into this tutorial. I just want to see it through to the end now, lol. i can't restart. haha
Does console tell you anything?perhaps reference problems ?=)
No errors displayed at all. I turned off and took a break for now
Okey, i guess your using buttons to move the Bird. Check that the controller script i attached to the button and the correct action is chosen, like jump() or what the method is called.
Script was still attached to the bird and still didn't move. Lol
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Honestly, 2 hours into a tutorial is nothing... and the one you were trying is way over-complicated for the end result. I'd just start a new one or try the resource above. You'd burn way less time in the long-run IMO.
His tutorial is three hours but it's probably taken me 5-6 to complete it😂😅. Just let me do this. I need it.
Nice! Congrats! If you post a link it'll be at least 1001 ;)
What I found out is that working only on what's needed can lead to having a lot of features implemented at like 80%, and then you have a game that is technically working but feels wonky and incomplete... I like to work by looking at "cost" (how much time and effort is needed to add something), next to "value" (how much of an effect it has on the game) and I also take in mind priority (how important it is at this point in development, which is a fuzzy thing at this early stage where everything is important.)
Grats!! I've seen it here and there on places like Twitter and it looks really cool :)
Thank you!
I attached everything he did the exact same way and his worked just fine. What kind of debugger do you suggest? Where do I get them from?
Thanks a lot. I've been using the Visual Studio Code.
public class NeutralPlayer : State
{
AnimationClip idleAnimation;
PlayableGraph animGraph;
public NeutralPlayer (AnimationClip idleAnimation) // constructor
{
this.idleAnimation = idleAnimation;
}
public override void onEnter()
{
base.onEnter();
AnimationPlayableUtilities.PlayClip(actor.animator, idleAnimation, out animGraph);
// the animationClip is played as soon as the state is entered, the graph animGraph is created by the AnimationPlayableUtilities utility.
}
public override void onExit()
{
base.onExit();
animGraph.Destroy(); // destroys the graph, when this state will be re-entered it will be re-created from scratch.
}
public override void onUpdate() { }
public override void check_transition()
{
if (actor.controller.collisions.tDown && myInput.getButtonDown(0,inputAction.Cross))
fsm.changeState<Jump>();
}
}public abstract class Attack : State
{
public AttackHelper attackHelper;
public ComboTree comboTree;
PlayableGraph animGraph;
public Attack(AttackHelper attackHelper, ComboTree comboTree)
{
this.comboTree = comboTree;
this.attackHelper = attackHelper; // the helper class
}
public override void onEnter()
{
base.onEnter();
myInput = InputManager.inputManagerinstance;
isDone = attackHelper.isAttackDone = false;
attackHelper.unsetFlags();
attackHelper.setAttackCollider();
AnimationPlayableUtilities.PlayClip(actor.animator, comboTree.getCurrentAttack().attackAnim, out animGraph);
}
public override void onExit()
{
base.onExit();
attackHelper.clearHitCollection();
isDone = false;
animGraph.Destroy();
}
public override void onUpdate()
{
isDone = attackHelper.isAttackDone;
if(attackHelper.isActiveFrames)//checks if the attack is active
attackHelper.checkAttackHit(comboTree.getCurrentAttack());
}
public override void check_transition()
{
if (myInput.getButtonDown(0,inputAction.Square))
{
if(attackHelper.canMoveToNextAttack && isDone == false)
{
if(comboTree.hasNextLight())
{
comboTree.moveToNextLight();
resetAttackState();
}
}
}
if (isDone) // if the animation is done return to neutral, isDone gets its value from the AttackHelper helper class
{
comboTree.resetTree();
fsm.changeState<NeutralPlayer>();
}
if(attackHelper.canJumpCancel && myInput.getButtonDown(0,inputAction.Cross))
{
Debug.Log("JUMPCANCELLING");
fsm.changeState<Jump>();
}
}
public virtual void resetAttackState()
{
onExit();
onEnter();
}
}
Hi all, first time posting in here! I'm a 3D artist and animator kicking an idea around for a game.
I've been researching and experimenting with ways to make a game with clay-like, malleable characters in 3D (Unity). The goal is to make characters that can morph and blend between a variety of very different shapes. I've looked at metaballs, raymarched SDFs, marching squares, and several other techniques but these techniques are really performance heavy if I'm targeting something like the Switch.
Apologies if this is too technical, but the two techniques I'm leaning towards are:
1. Vertex Texture Animation from Houdini into Unity - This allows me to convert essentially anything to a polygon mesh, including liquid/melting sort of objects, using the shader to move the vertices around.
2. Alembic / geometry cached animation - Updating the geo every frame stop motion style. This gives the best results visually but I don't know if it can be optimized enough to target the Switch.
I could also look at rendering out stop-motion style animation as 2d sprites, since I'm going for a 2.5D style platformer. Ideally I'd like to keep it 3D geometry though.
Edit: Here's an alembic exported from Houdini to Unity as a test.
Are there any other techniques I could look into, or any tips on optimizing morphing geometry? I can post some examples I've done as I get further along.
Thanks. Only other jam participants can rate it as far as I know.
Thanks. I definitely see the potential of actually developing it further. Not sure if I've seen the switching idea before but the diving in shadows part is from a stealth Splatoon game idea I had a while back.
Cool, I'll continue with the vertex animation path and see where it goes. Do you have any info or links on baking the morph to vertex color rather than using a texture? The position map that houdini exports is a very odd looking map so I'll have to see how that can be baked into the mesh. Thanks for the help!
Havent posted here in a while, but I'm always chugging away on my games.
I made a trailer for DOT a few months back. It honestly looks quite neat now. way better than the previous trailer.
Due to google's new policy of requiring all android games to have a 64bit version, I had to make the decision to upgrade the engine from GMS1 to GMS2.
Which incurred a relatively heavy pricetag, because i had to re-buy the export modules. On the plus side, GMS2 is so much more pleasant to use than 1. Worthy upgrade I think.
After regaining the ability to port to android, i decided to take a crack at optimising the game. On PC it runs perfectly, but some of the later levels were chuggy, even dropping the PC frames from 500+ to less than 60 at times. Obviously, for such a basic looking game it had to be changed.
The optimisation efforts were a GREAT success.
As it turned out, collisions were the main problem, namely with vision cones. In a level with 10ish enemies, the collision logic for checking if a vision cone was hitting a wall was doing a check 660 times a frame, and since there were hundreds of wall instances in a level, it was hugely slowing down the game.
I decided, since the game is gridbased, to use a grid system.
Basically getting all walls to register the fact they are indeed walls in a grid data structure. each tile is 32x32, which corrisponds to 1 cell of the grid.
So now vision cones only had to do proper collision checks against "interactive objects" and just do a simple lookup check on the grid. I rewrote a lot of the movement logic to take into account the grid system too. Walls will now essentially register on the grid, then destroy themselves. massively reducing the instance count of any given level.
This rose the framerate of a later level from 15fps on android, to over 70fps. It runs so buttery smooth now.
The game is "feature complete" in that it works. technically, i just need to make the final boss, and I have a fairly basic game with 18 levels available.
But it feels like it's missing something. I'm not sure what though... I think it's missing "charm"? I can't really pinpoint what it is, but there is something it needs.
I wanted to add in some sort of basic story, but am having massive writers block, and i'm not sure if that'll even improve it at all.
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In addition to that, i'm still working on my fangame, "Super Pokemon Eevee Edition".
Finished the 8th gym, and creating a train set piece. The train is the only way to reach "Victory Road" where the final boss of the game lies, but a snorlax is blocking the path, so you need to find a flute, to wake the snorlax, to board the train.
After numerous redesigns, I quite like how the train looks now. And well, like all train sequences, something interrupts the journey.
I wanted to do a full uncharted 2 style derailment sequence, but that'd just take too much work.
I'm planning the next update to end after the train set piece. And then the following update to reach the end of the game.
wow. Can't believe i'm almost at the finish line. quite eeiry since i've been working on the game since 2010... never though a pet project would spin into this whole thing.
Hey guys, here are a few recent characters I've made for the Zelda-like game I'm working on. Any critiques welcome!
Thanks a lot buddy. By unsettling, do you mean scary? I am channeling some of my favorite Zelda's for this project. Pretty excited to see things come to life!
Scary might be a bit strong word? Maybe scary-lite? I think you've done well with the atmosphere if you try to emulate those games!
Hey guys, here are a few recent characters I've made for the Zelda-like game I'm working on. Any critiques welcome!
Hey guys, here are a few recent characters I've made for the Zelda-like game I'm working on. Any critiques welcome!
Thanks! Good to know it is scary-lite hehe
Whoa thanks! That comparison means a lot! :D
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