Character moving between frames seamlessly?

[chrilley]

Hello,

I am making a platform game using a level editor I made. The way you roam through the world is gonna be much like Castlevania SOTN.

The problem I am facing right now is how to make the player go between rooms/areas without any position glitches. As it is right now the character is re-positioned to a target position in the new frame when he leaves the previous frame. It looks really bad.

Since the rooms also can vary in frame size plus that they might have more than one entry adds to complexity of the issue. Any ideas or suggestions?

[nivram]

If you would consider one large frame that could possibly take care of the problem you are having.

Marv

[chrilley]

It will not I'm afraid. It'd change the whole idea of the game I had in mind. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[Chaos]

Okay, here is what I am doing for Core of Innocence - I have an active invisible 'sensor' object above each entry to another frame, upon the player passing through - I have it record the X or Y (depending on left to right, or up to down) once you zone over, it fades out breifly - loads new frame, and then sets the same X or Y position of the player in relation to the sensor over the door in the new room. Then it fades right back in and you are ready to go!

I'd write an example but I'm at work for another 5 hours yet.

[Blackwolfdave]

I had the same issue and I'm here to help you out!!! well it's just a way to do it and it works fine to me first you need a backdrop on the gap that leads to the other room make it fit exactly in both frames the origin and second frame,now go to the properties tab and check the y position if it's a horizontal transition and x if it's vertical now on the events make this
if it's horizontal:
(this goes in the first frame)
x position of(your character)>=frame width ----- set global value A to "y position of(your character)-the y position of your backdrop" and set global string A to "the name of the room"
(this goes in the other room)
"start of frame" and "Global string A=(name of your room)"-----"set x position of(your character)to 0" and "set y position of(your character) to (y position of backdrop+Global value a)
that works great if you want to do it like SOTN I'm working on a videogame like that =P it will work if you place the door in a bigger frame good luck =)

[Chaos]

I'm curious to see how that works Dave because to be honest I have no idea what you just said! haha - do you by chance have an example I could look at?

[chrilley]

I am a little confused. If you two could throw together an example it'd be a great help!

[Blackwolfdave]

yeah I can but tell me how to upñoad it here =P

[chrilley]

Sure, you go to the file archive make a thread about it, attach the file and then come back here and post the link to your thread there!

I suppose you could also use this site http://mfa.aquadasoft.com/

[Blackwolfdave]

ok guys here you go, this method is great if your frames are different size but if they're same size you should use chaos method
View MFA
http://mfa.aquadasoft.com/view/1280089360-room_transition_castlevania_style