Spare Code ? Dump It here.

Socks

I was thinking, there's a thread for 'Free Art and Graphics', but there is also probably quite a lot of interesting little bits of code that gets generated by people but doesn't end up being used for anything, various dead-ends and experiments that end up just sat in some folder gathering dust.

It might be a custom font engine that you ended up rejecting or a clever proximity detector that didn't quite fit in with your game . . . . . so maybe there is scope for a thread where people can post interesting ideas and experiments that they didn't end up using - but might be useful for others ? They may even be just useful little demos you've made for other people.

I don't know about anyone else but I have tons of this crap ! Here's my first donation:

A kind of furry worm thing, with a fresnel effect, that just wonders around the screen, it wasn't quite what I wanted to do but I thought it looked quite interesting so it was spared 'death-by-bin™':

http://www.mediafire.com/?f381s5rw79zj3p8

Socks

Here's some code I used to push the colours through the spectrum for something I am working on, it's not a 100% accurate colour spectrum - if you are able to visualise the maths in your head you can see that the spectrum is 'smeared' out a little (meaning you never get 100% pure colours) - but for a cheap and quick bit of code it does a pretty decent spectrum:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y836v844vhv943d

All the values are drive by 'self.time', but you can drive them by anything you want, like rotation or actor position or a slider (for colour selection) etc etc.

Socks

Boring but useful for the æsthetes out there - two ways to do a smooth glitch free interpolation - good for fading up / down images and fading in and out of audio with out the annoying little 'kick' at the end of the fade.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gucb7w3phmcjbb8

Socks

Circle thing, might be nice for something:

http://www.mediafire.com/?q6t7df0ua3dd1xd

Version 2:

http://www.mediafire.com/?fz8xild8x7ccv1n

creativeapps

Wow @Socks thank you so much for that.

Socks

This was going to be a logo / intro / splash screen thing, but I dropped the name 'magic'.

(Pick up the ring and throw it at the word magic).

http://www.mediafire.com/?rsjpo66jgzqrwr2

shark1505

Socks, how in the world did you create the word magic out of squares?

Socks

Socks, how in the world did you create the word magic out of squares?

Using magic.

PBEmpire

lol. Thanks for this wonderful thread. Might post some stuff here.

Socks

Might post some stuff here.

That's the idea, any interesting little ideas you've come up with that might be useful to others (or maybe just interesting to look at), doesn't matter if it's just a square block you've managed to get to spin in an interesting way or a nice pattern you've generated with the spawning behaviour, it's all good.

tolicat

These are awesome. Thank you Socks!

OskarDeveloper

Nice work!

mrpacogp

You Rocks Socks!

beefy_clyro

Quality thread ... Bookmarked

IsabelleK

Very cool thread, and ideas inside the projects

gyroscope

Ditto; excellent stuff, @Socks :-)

LumpApps

I dump my free stuff here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xj0iqhdzn9e3j11/fJ47v8qkTi
Have fun.

Socks

I dump my free stuff here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xj0iqhdzn9e3j11/fJ47v8qkTi
Have fun.

Nice stuff !

TimBOSSDev

Thanks so much @Socks ! You're awesome

IsabelleK

@Socks is awesome, @LudwigHeijden is awesome, this @thread is awesome, @GameSalad is awesome - I love everything, and everyone

MarkOnTheIron

Nice initiative @Socks and nice pieces of code you have there, even though the "magic" trick (kudos for the patience on it) gives me the impression of being a little too heavy on performance.

I should have something that I used for myself or as an example for others that I could share. Let me see...

Found them:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8244920/AccelerometerSimple.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8244920/CoverFlow.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8244920/OnOff_Button.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8244920/Windshield.zip

MarkOnTheIron

Some other project files that could be useful to someone:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8244920/ActorColors.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8244920/LineRotation.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8244920/OrbitRotation.zip
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8244920/SceneRotation.zip


Also I collected some demos I made in the past here:
http://markontheiron.com/gs_demos_templates.html

mrpacogp

Very interesting things we can found there.

Chakku

Socks, how in the world did you create the word magic out of squares?

@shark1505

Believe it or not, but @Socks actually positioned 1x1 actors to form the word "magic" ! That would be a cool splash screen, but it would take forever to position 1x1 actors in the particular color and position for one, but it's also very performance heavy, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Thread looks nice.

Chakku

Socks

. . . even though the "magic" trick // gives me the impression of being a little too heavy on performance . . .

Yep, it's a real processor killer although it might be a viable idea post-Lua (that's a guess) - a little streamlining will probably get it working fine on iDevices too.

I should have something that I used for myself or as an example for others that I could share. Let me see...

Found them . . . .

Excellent, I'm going to take a look right now !




[EDIT . . . some really useful stuff in there, it's interesting to see others use a completely different way to do something]

Socks

I dump my free stuff here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xj0iqhdzn9e3j11/fJ47v8qkTi
Have fun.

Love the lightening, really works well, I might have to steal that !!!

Socks

How would I go about editing the size of that?

It's very easy, everything is controlled by the two constrains of the 'More Weirdness' actor.

Constrain self.position.X - 200*sin( game.Time *100)+512
Constrain self.position.Y - 200*cos( game.Time *100)+384

This is the path of the circle.

Constrain self.position.X - AAA*sin( game.Time *BBB)+CCC

AAA = radius of the circle
BBB = speed of movement
CCC = centre point of the circle

And along with that would there be a way to make it shorter? as in not take as long to go all the way around the circle?

Change BBB to a larger value, but bear in mind that you will then need to reduce the amount of time the spawner is working for.

So if you double the speed - from 100 to 200 - then you would need to change the timed spawning from For 3.6 seconds to For 1.8 seconds.

Socks

Quick example of iPhone size - play around with all the values to come up with something interesting for your needs.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1919ausbfo0s82k

Socks

Nice wobbly joining line for something:

http://www.mediafire.com/?7e7ui697zwv4704

Socks

Orbit thing:

http://www.mediafire.com/?j93zerqyx7ccjaf

Wobbly circle thing:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ykk9gc2owc18vxk

HoneyTribeStudios

Boring but useful for the æsthetes out there - two ways to do a smooth glitch free interpolation - good for fading up / down images and fading in and out of audio with out the annoying little 'kick' at the end of the fade.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gucb7w3phmcjbb8

Seems to be any value over 1.0 gets rid of the kick? Strangeness.

Nice find, cheers.