segmented bosses

[Taco]

anyone know any good tutorials for those multi segamented bosses?

[Jaffob]

What's a multi segamented boss?

[Caesar]

Bosses made from multiple sprites?

[Looki]

Yeah, I think he means bosses like in those arcade games like metal slug, where the bosses consist of some guns that move back and forward

Anyway, I don't know a good tutorial for it, but I'd say that action points are useful for this, and some knowledge in sine functions.

[Caesar]

I've just knocked this up really quick. It's not perfect and there are far better ways to make multi sprite bosses.

http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1433177_eypan/boss.zip

Could do with a good tutorial myself (who knows, after seeing this poor example, someone may get off their backsides and make one).

[Taco]

: ) i mean like the bosses that are made of lots of circles. that try to make it 3d

[mobichan]

Are you talking about sprites that have segmented limbs (like 16bit Treasure games) where the limbs act like tentacles or snakes? Or something that is just a bunch of overlapping sprites where each overlapping part is treated individually and is destroyable (like the level 3 big ship boss in Rtype)?

[Taco]

like in the treasure games you said exactly.

[Taco]

by the way ceaser that example is pretty neat. thx

[Taco]

this is what i mean



does anyone know a good example of this?