Is it possible to code logic where the player's movement on the screen (4 directions) can leave a trail. When that trail closes in shape, it creates a closed shape that kills enemies inside it.
For lack of better example, heres a naughty (work safe) game for MAME cabinets that executes that mechanic:
(Snail removed this link)
Imagine this, but on a 2d canvas and without the naughty stuff
Can it be done? How
I am way over my head with this
It is certainly a challenge. I dont think that anyone has ever done it before in fusion
I am quite curious of how it can be done. Btw sorry I couldnt provide a less sleazy example. The name of the game is "Dancing eyes" btw. if anyone knows of similar mechanic in another game, please drop a message
its not going to always be a square. How do you draw the shape once you have the points figured out?
any example files ?
Its really hard to imagine how it would work by just looking at formulas.
Any tutorials on using the surface object? I cant seem to find any
Ok nevermind, I figured out how to draw the polygons with the Surface object. The real issue is that the game will only work on windows
Are there any hopes of having the Surface object ported over to Android?
ok the surface object is too memory intensive and my polygon shape gets cut off by the boundaries of the canvas.
This is not going to be useable.
Can I set the polygon points and then create a polygon out of them with the automatic canvas size?
Is there really no way to do it without the surface object?
Damn I wish mmf had something similar to this:
If I were to do it, I'd go with the suggestion of using active objects.
You'd have to record the movement to determine all the sides of the shape. The hard part would then be to figure out how to split the shape into different rectangles. Once you have, you need to create a tiny pixel-object to draw each rectangle. Use a loop to create and scale all the pixel-objects to the rectangle size and then check if they overlap any enemies.
That is an interesting proposition. Create the shape out of triangles. Still not sure how to do it- getting the three vertices at the correct positions just by scaling the triangle and rotating it
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