Top-down Shooter, Shaky Crosshair.

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23rd January 2013, 08:50 PM
mugenman

Top-down Shooter, Shaky Crosshair.

I'm having issues with simultaneous movement and cross-hair positioning. I have the cross-hair set to YMouse and XMouse always, but upon walking the cross-hair is shaky during camera movement. I can't seem to understand why. The cross-hair seems to shake while you walk if you're not actually moving the mouse. I included the source file below. Can anyone diagnose the issue? Help greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Game Source [I guess I can't post URLs? Not sure why, maybe I need more posts...]:

Code:

www.newgrounds.com/dump/download/efd5961c8a04f3abf7d900b0de987044

- Wayne
23rd January 2013, 09:06 PM
Jeff

I think you need a registered product to post files or URLs.

I gotta go find an unRARer program before I can take a look and I might forget before I do :(
23rd January 2013, 09:27 PM
mugenman

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff

I think you need a registered product to post files or URLs.

I gotta go find an unRARer program before I can take a look and I might forget before I do :(

I do in fact have a registered product. I've registered MMF2 and purchased the flash exporter. I Didn't realize I could include those in forum settings. Good point, I probably should have zipped the file.

Here's a link directing to a zip archive rather than a rar:

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/downl...2f361c8d02ad8f
23rd January 2013, 10:53 PM
Jeff

Hmmm, I am having a hard time seeing the shake but I think I can notice it a little bit.
Sometimes its due to the order of events in your game but that doesn't seem to really make any effect.

You might need to look into some fastloop movements to really get this looking smooth.
23rd January 2013, 11:24 PM
Popcorn

Yeah, I couldn't figure it out either.. But you could try make another visible crosshair in another layer, with the x and y coeffcients set to 0 so it will not scroll. Then hide the other crosshair, but keep that as the one you use in the code. This should get rid of the shaking.
24th January 2013, 12:16 AM
mugenman

Quote:

Originally Posted by Popcorn

Yeah, I couldn't figure it out either.. But you could try make another visible crosshair in another layer, with the x and y coeffcients set to 0 so it will not scroll. Then hide the other crosshair, but keep that as the one you use in the code. This should get rid of the shaking.

That worked perfectly! Thank you very much Popcorn. And thank you too Jeff.