Posts by SolarB

Hey all, sad to have disappeared for so long but happy to say that 7 years later seemed like a good time to do an update to IsoLight 😆 Anyway, it now has a demo game frame, major fixes to the editor, animated tiles, jumping, smooth scrolling and optimised shadow system. Yes indeed there was a bug in v1.0 where the arrays for the example frames wouldn't load properly. This is fixed in v1.1.

Thank you so much to everyone who bought v1.0, incredibly appreciate the support! If you were one of those people, please DM me the Clickstore username you used to buy IsoLight as well as the purchase date and I'll DM you a code for itch.io.

To everyone else, IsoLight is up right now on itch.io at Please login to see this link.

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Included:

- NEW! Demo game
- Editor
- Core engine
- Pathfinding example

UPDATE NOTES:

- NEW animated tiles
- 2D array now works as it should! Fixed the issue where blocks were overwritten if behind a new tile.
- Updated player movement:
- NEW jumping
- horizontal penalty
- wall sliding
- collision detection
- NEW smooth-scrolling player camera
- Updated saving and loading
- Walls angled away from the light shade correctly
- Slightly more optimised shadow system

Check out the video:

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Hey thanks for the breakdown! Glad my example came in useful

Nice work, congrats! REALLY curious how you managed the extension-less pathfinding for so many objects - I'm thinking some sort of staggering system?

the return of NastyMan??

@muddy I like to be able to see a bit more than a few events on screen, but totally agree it's weird having two very similar interface elements.

Step into the 21st century with this dark skin.

Inspired by most, if not all, productivity and design apps of the present.

Things I can't do:

Bevelled borders colour - it would be super appreciated to have the colour of these exposed in the skin editor! But if anyone knows how to change this please let me know.

Black border around comments in event editor - also would love to know if there's any way to get rid of these.

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Download below.

Enjoy!

Super cool.

Simple marching ants type dotted line example, follows angle to mouse from origin. Can be used for aim line up etc.

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Distance and speed of dots (ants) can be adjusted using values.

Hey, thanks for checking out my example

Unit overlap has always been the bane of developers, I think I read somewhere that even the Starcraft devs came up with hacky ways of overcoming this and you'll still see unit glitches here and there.

Maybe the best way here is to somehow check if there's a unit already on a tile and to stop the nearest unit(s) from moving there. I'm not sure how this will work and unfortunately I don't have the time to experiment but if anyone has any ideas please share.

Wishlisted!

Congrats dude this is awesome.

Ultimate Fullscreen is available in the extension manager.

Thanks, it's really just a test to see how many objects each engine handles. Fusion's HWA, on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S5) at least seems to handle transparency and colour pretty well, it's the objects that cause the slowdown, I tested this by just creating static actives, even with nothing happening the framerate tanks after about 250-300.

I am a big supporter of Clickteam and Fusion 2.5 and this post is not meant to be negative in any way. The information here will come as no surprise, the purpose here is only to share my experience.

I ran into some issues developing a project for Android and decided to spend two days setting up this test and re-creating it in another product.

Now I'm torn trying to make the decision whether or not to pursue my main project in Fusion.

The test took me less than 10 minutes to make in Fusion:

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Making the test in the other product took an entire day of learning the environment, learning some code, and putting it all together. It was a huge headache but I'm grateful for the learning experience.

So, either I stick with Fusion, continue working within its amazing and simple coding environment but limit the scope of my project or I spend countless hours scratching my head trying to figure out scripting and an unintuitive environment for a major gain in performance and flexibility.

I will most likely continue using Fusion and supporting Clickteam but I really hope there will be major performance increases for mobile in either F2.5+ or F3.

The result of this test are in this video (basically the Fusion test runs at 17fps and the other product handles it at 60fps):

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A cool way to make a nice psychedelic effect.

2 examples, the second building on the first.

I've spent the past week trying to isolate the issue with no success. The app runs great at 60fps for a few minutes before it slows down to 45, then further down to the 30s.

There's nothing special happening other than there are around 250 objects. It works with no problem sometimes but then I add a simple event that should cause no issues, build the apk and the issue returns.

[MENTION=6268]Fernando[/MENTION] could I please PM you the file or apk?

Build API: 27
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S5

Update:

Following advice in another thread instead of creating and destroying objects they are now "reused" ie. all objects are created at the start of the frame and nothing is destroyed (file attached).

This seems to solve the issue in this simplified test but I'm still having the same trouble in my actual game.

I will further attempt to isolate the problem.

Meanwhile any idea why creating/destroying objects causes this slowdown?

At first the framerate is fine with the amount of objects created but after some time the framerate begins to drop. This is evidenced by the Minimum FPS counter gradually falling.

The sequence and amount of objects is controlled (objects are created and destroyed according to a set pattern) so it seems strange that this should happen.

Could this please be looked at?

Thanks so much.

File attached.

Build API: 26
Phone tested: Samsung Galaxy S5

This is a cheap and dirty way to do it X)

Set some global values to be 4 and 2, then set another value to generate a number, then set the value written to the array to be the value (floor or wall) selected by the random number.

Used some MOD for the outline walls, there's probably a better way to do it but I'm not a maths genius :pacman:

No worries, thanks Simon.