Posts by Storsorgen

Greetings!

I'm using a modified version of DavidNs platform engine, and for some reason the character will sometimes "jitter" when using a movement speed of 70, but not when using a movementspeed of a 100.
I think it's related to the rounding up of a value or something, but I'm not sure
The formula is

On Loop horiz(triggered whenever horizontal input is happening

Set FloatX_( "Player" ) + ( ( Horiz( "Player" ) / Abs(Horiz( "Player" )) ) * ( moveSpeed( "Player" ) / 100.0 ) )
Set Player X to Float_X("Player")

Has anyone seen a similar issue?
TLDR: Float movement works fine with 100, but not 70.

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[MENTION=30815]Progject[/MENTION]

There is no need to make your own level editor today, the only reason why people made it was because the code reuse issue in the past but with fusion 2.5+ there is no need for that anymore. The workflow by using fusion out of the box is also way more convenient than spending all your time developing your own frame/world editor when fusion already have one!

If you wanna make big levels its no problem, fusion is one of this engines that have very smooth performance out of the box, even on mobile, if you use it correctly. The rule is basically, use as often as you can quick backdrop or backdrop objects and actives only for things you really need them, like player, enemy, moving objects etc. NEVER use actives for building levels, NEVER. Actives are very heavy on performance, as said above already you will get lot of stuttering motion and performance issues, especially on mobile, by using to much of them.

Look in the example.mfa, where i make a big frame (16000x2000) and plaster it with quick backdrops, as you can see the performance is very smooth, even on lower mobile phones.

You could also use an external editor for tileset level creation like ( Please login to see this link. ) and export your build level as a single png's (but i would not go over 2k for a single image), load it in fusion and set up you collision with transparent backdrops, this will also give you a very good performance. Its always better to use big prebuild world images instead of building your levels with lot of seperate tiles in fusion.

But as said above already it only really matters if you develop for mobile, tablets and desktop PC, for desktop PC alone you have mostly no performance issue, only if your game is really big with lot of stuff going on at the same time.

Conclusion: Fusion is very smooth and top performing with moderate use of big textures, plastering the frame with hundrets of small actives on the other hand is a big NO NO.

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I would say there IS a reason to use a level editor. When creating a level manually, you can't really assign custom data to instances of actives, whilst if you use a level editor you can.

Thank you very much for the help schrodinger!

Note: If I have several objects that share the same qualifier but are not the same object, it works. If there are more than one of the same object in the qualifier group, it does not work.

I don't really notice any blurriness in the background gg7gg7, have you tried using a software that takes individual screenshots every frame to see if they are actually blurred for you?

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Here, I added an example of the issue! You can click on a red square to delete it, and you'll notice that the collision then works.

Somehow, if I remove the Y axis comparison it also works. I do not know why this is. Any ideas?

Hm, I tried scoping using a forEach loop and a regular loop but it did not work. I'll try and make an mfa example and upload it.

Thank you for the answer schrodinger! I tried changing the qualifier reference to checking towards the object itself, but that did not solve the problem either. Do I have to put direct object references inside a foreach loop as well?

I added an image of what the code looks like ,should be visible now!
Any idea of how I get around the object scoping?

I'm mostly perplexed of why it completely ignores the X,Y conditions when I add another selector condition.

Okay, so I'm still having some problems with these.
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I'm using the method where I compare positions to determine whether or not I am colliding, and it works great!
EXCEPT, it only works when there is only one instance of the object the player is colliding with. I realize this is due to the object scoping somehow, because the code only works if the condition is true for "all objects". However, I just can't seem to figure out how to get around it. I tried having a fastloop for each instance of the moving platforms and giving them IDs, and then comparing the ID to the loopindex when testing the positions but this did not work.

I then tried to reverse the detection, asking if the platform was overlapping the player instead but that didn't work either. I then tried adding an additional criteria that one of the players detectors that is not used in normal collision is overlapping the moving platform, but that resulted in the overlap-condition overriding everything and ignoring the positioning conditions. Why would it do this? Any ideas how to work with this?

Ah yes, I guess the problem I was thinking of was when you wanna nudge something down instead of up, you have to do the loop backwards.

I understand Alexexhowl, I too would prefer a less cumbersome method but I don't see how it can be done without persisting each row before it is overwritten?

Alexexhowl: Won't that cause you to just copy the same value over the whole Array?

If I have an array

12113
23223
14414

And I say "write the y3 to y2" I'd end up with
12113
14414
14414
when the next loop is prepared, that is "move Y2 to Y1". The reason I use a second array as a temporary "holding array" is to avoid this loss on information, since either way I go something will be overwritten and lost unless it is persisted somewhere.

Greetings alexexhowl!
I have a function to do this in my level editor, for when I need to nudge things. Basically what I do is store the current array in a temporary array, and then write each position of the temporary to the current array +1, depending on which direction I want to nudge it.
So for example, if I wanted to move everything to the right I'd set it up like
TempArray = CurrentArray
On loop:
Write TempArray(XYZ) to CurrentArray(XYZ)(X+1) (this is pseudocode, but illustrates the general principle).
Does it make sense to you?

Hm, only drawback is that when things are scrolling both up horizontally and vertically at the same time, there is a distinct jittering of the screen.

That's actually exactly what I wanted, thank you!

Greetings! I was wondering, is there a shader or way to paralllax scroll the same way that the Sega Genesis did?

Currently, to get a satisfactory way of parallax scrolling parts of the background I need to use alot of layers, but it'd be nice if there was some sort of way to scroll "part of the screen". Is there such a thing?

Ah yes Ragem, you are right, it does work! Do you know where I can find the code for that particular piece of collision?

Hello Ragem! I bought your engine to get some tips for my own, and one thing I was curious about; You don't seem to have any support for vertically moving platforms that are not jump-through?

Greetings! Trying to do a sliding lines, match 3 game but I'm having some issues. I can slide the lines perfectly well, but for some reason the match-detection isn't working.

A really annoying thing I've found is that you can't access arrays directly in conditionals, which makes checking array neighbours quite confusing.
I've attached an example. According my thoughts, all matching colors SHOULD get the value "8" in the array, meaning that they should be removed, but for some reason it isn't working.
Currently matching is only enabled horizontally and on the right side from where you did the switch. Any ideas? Please login to see this attachment.