how to do an infinite loop scenery?

[maelgaldino]

xHello guys!

I have a huge doubt about to make scenery loops. For ex.: A zombie tsunami's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDmI4fZpBNo) style of game. But really have no ideia how to do it properly. I'm sorry if there's already another topic open for this purpose, but I can't find it here. Thanks!

[schrodinger]

There are many ways to accomplish that.
Easiest one (imo), also open to creation "randomness" (for which I have a particular predilection )
could be dividing the scenery in big active "slices", giving each slice a peculiar name, and adding that names to a list object.

Then, after setting up slices scrolling, you coud check when a slice has completely entered your frame (right side got in),
then create object by name - pick a name at random from the slices list.
That would be infinite and random.

Obviously, if undesired, you could get rid of randomness just by making an ordered list and reading it increasingly.

[Ziplock]

Parallaxing:

Create a new mfa at 320 x 240.

Click on frame 1, click "settings," and set the "virtual width" to 10000. Insert an Active Object and set it's movement properties to "eight directions."

In the event editor, set the condition Always: Storyboard Controls -> Scrollings -> Center Window Position in Frame -> Relative to -> Active Object

You should be able to run this and see a 10000 pixel horizontal scrolling app in a 320 pixel area.


Ctrl+K to bring up the "layers" toolbar. Click the folded paper icon to add a new layer.

Click the new layer and add a "quick backdrop," set it to motif in its properties, and set it to a random width and a height of 240. Click the layer and select "wrap horizontally." Then change its x-coefficient to something between 0 and 1 (like 0.75, 0.23, etc).

Continue to add layers in this fashion ad nauseam.

Make sure your active object layer is the foreground layer #1, but drag your layers around to see how it works.

[Chaussette]

here's a great tutorial for this kind of game !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I05TDijQx-Q