★★★ Video Tutorial: Realistic Slopes for Platform Games ★★★

UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
edited January 2012 in Working with GS (Mac)
An idea on how to get a more realistic feel while going up and down slopes.

Hope you enjoy.



Darren.

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  • ozboybrianozboybrian PRO Posts: 2,102
    edited January 2012
    Great Stuff Darren! The point you made about circular and rectangular taught me something I never realised before :D
    Keep bringing the vids! I liked your GS for noobs vid to, I learnt a couple great things off that to.

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  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    Cheers Brian,

    If you have 2 rectangular platforms next to each other and on the same Y axis it could still cause a rectangular hero or mask to collide which is why i always have circle.

    It seems these videos are not very popular judging by lack of comments so i will get my head down with some work for a while now.

    Darren.
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Im sure many will find this useful, just probably not many working on platformers. Its a good tip nonetheless, I'm quite some way through a platformer, if i knew this at the start i would of probably worked it like this but have all my artwork done as is now.
    Its something i would certainly try on future projects though so thanks for the tip .... now back to work ;)

    Cheers
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  • The_Gamesalad_GuruThe_Gamesalad_Guru Member Posts: 9,922
    edited January 2012
    I'll add this and the beginners one to the Unoffical gsguide. If it's embedded on your personal site I will link it there just like I do with tshirt's video that are embedded on his site.

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  • bazookaBenbazookaBen Member Posts: 318
    awesome video, is this template for sale at DBA? can't find the link
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    @bazookaBen .. Its not a template thats why, its a how to video showing you everything you need to do it yourself for free :)
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  • bazookaBenbazookaBen Member Posts: 318
    edited January 2012
    i'm trying to apply slopes to the free platformer template here http://www.mediafire.com/?odhem2f2hga43w5

    but i can't seem to get the circle mask aspect running. probably that is why ineed a working template as a guide. been banging my head for hours trying to figure it out
  • bazookaBenbazookaBen Member Posts: 318
    what i did was i altered the black walls in the platformer template above to a certain angle, saved it as a slope actor. changed the hero mask to a circle type, if the hero collides with the slope, it inherits the same wall properties, plus it rotates the hero to the same angle as the slope - making it seem the hero is moving upwards naturally. somehow it still doesn't work , hope the chefs here can help
  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    I will ask Wayne to upload the project file so you can download it for free.

    Darren.
  • simo103simo103 Member, PRO Posts: 1,331
    thanks Darren ... was busy until now but this is very helpful and appreciated (as are the other templates).
  • bazookaBenbazookaBen Member Posts: 318
    looking forward to the template!
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