Scrolling Question

ZackGS

Hey guys.

I have scrolling set up in my game and it works fine.

1) I am using two 480x30 images to give the illusion of the floor scrolling
2) My main character doesn't move, just does a animation to simulate it.
3) My enemies do move from right to left until they reach the player or die.

However...

When my player isn't moving and the background isn't scrolling, they move toward the player at the expected speed, however... if i am moving and the background is scrolling, it looks like they are barley moving at all ? (they do get closer, but the speed looks nothing like it was before i started to move)

I have tried making them move faster when i move but to no avail? Why is this such a big issue ? Any workarounds ?

Thanks in advance

ZackGS

bump..

tenrdrmer

how much have you increased the speed?

I would try adding the full scrolling speed to the current speed.

ZackGS

tenrdrmer said:
how much have you increased the speed?

I would try adding the full scrolling speed to the current speed.

Yeah, even doubled and tripled it, doesn't seem to make any difference.

Photics

Are you trying to do Parallax scrolling?

If this is a problem about enemy movement, do you have a maximum speed set?

ZackGS

Just basic scrolling. background moves left then resets.

The guy moves fine when the background isn't scrolling, when it is scrolling it looks like he is barley moving though

Note : I am using the move rule at 100 speed. My enemy moves at 100 speed also. I tried setting his speed to 200 when the background was scrolling (and more) but it seemed to have no effect

Photics

ZackGS said:
Note : I am using the move rule at 100 speed. My enemy moves at 100 speed also. I tried setting his speed to 200 when the background was scrolling (and more) but it seemed to have no effect

That can't be right. That's the correct solution to this problem. So the question is... why isn't that working?

I'm going to send you a possible solution to this.

ZackGS

Photics said:
That can't be right. That's the correct solution to this problem. So the question is... why isn't that working?

I'm going to send you a possible solution to this.

My thoughts exactly, Thanks, help is appreciated

Photics

ZackGS said:
My thoughts exactly, Thanks, help is appreciated

I'm going to post it here... as private messaging ruined the formatting...

A multiplier might work...

In the move behavior

100+(100*game.scrolling)

If right button is down
change game.scrolling to 1 (use a real or integer, not boolean)
otherwise change game.scrolling to 0

So if the game is not scrolling, there is no multiplier. With negatives and different values for the multiplier... something other than 100... maybe you'll get the effect you're looking for.

ZackGS

Photics said:
I'm going to post it here... as private messaging ruined the formatting...

A multiplier might work...

In the move behavior

100+(100*game.scrolling)

If right button is down
change game.scrolling to 1 (use a real or integer, not boolean)
otherwise change game.scrolling to 0

So if the game is not scrolling, there is no multiplier. With negatives and different values for the multiplier... something other than 100... maybe you'll get the effect you're looking for.

Thanks I will give it a go

ZackGS

Edit : it turns out i was being a moron. The idea i mentioned above does actually work. I stupidly had Max speed checked and set to 100. Never remember doing that, but changing that to the correct 200 speed fixed it.

Thanks anyway guys and sorry for being such a tool :P