[merder]

i never before used sprites before so i thougth is better to try it with someing safe like rain or snow so i decided to use snow.
so now i have a few questions.
1. are spritea on the same layer as the overlay?
2. could anyone give me an example engine?

[Val]

1. Sprites can be either below or above the overlay; by default, they're below, but you can set them to be above by setting "spr#_overlay" to 1. Keep in mind, though, that they're ALWAYS above the playing field.

2. ask lancer

This post has been edited by Guy: 24 September 2006 - 01:21 PM

[hob nado]

merder: An engine you might look into is the rain engine in Honor Quest 2. There's a dark and rainy board towards the end of the game - since it's an old game, of course, it uses the overlay, but you could probably apply the same principles really easily to using sprites.

Or if you want, use the start of Weirdland 6. I ripped that engine off several times =)

[merder]

Esdemo1, on Sep 24 2006, 01:42 PM, said:

Or if you want, use the start of Weirdland 6. I ripped that engine off several times =)

its a missing game. so i cant look at it for a reference not to mention ripping the engine.

This post has been edited by merder: 24 September 2006 - 03:42 PM

[Tixus]

Yeah..You kinda didn't release that one, Es.

[hob nado]

Oh, I released it back in the day. If it's not up, well, I'll see what I can do. Probably better to get the engine from HL2, or just roll your own - local counters make it much easier to do now.

[Goshi]

Here

http://www.digitalmz...?showtopic=3255

EDOT: It looks like the link is dead though. Get to work Es.

This post has been edited by Goshi: 25 September 2006 - 01:50 AM

[Pyro1588]

here's a quick rain engine i whipped up in a few minutes. it's basic but it should give you an idea of what to do.

char edit '€' to 1 1 3 2 6 4 12 8 8 0 0 0 0 0
char edit '�' to 0 0 2 2 6 4 46 28 8 54 0 0 0 0
char edit '‚' to 0 0 0 0 4 4 111 28 8 54 65 0 0 0
char edit 'ƒ' to 0 0 0 0 0 0 99 0 0 34 65 0 0 0
set "commands" to "(-1>>1)"
set "drops" to 100
. "number of drops"
set "vch0,0" to 128
set "vco0,0" to 11
set "vch1,0" to 129
set "vco1,0" to 11
set "vch2,0" to 130
set "vco2,0" to 11
set "vch3,0" to 131
set "vco3,0" to 11
loop start
set "spr&loopcount&_refx" to 0
set "spr&loopcount&_refy" to 0
set "spr&loopcount&_width" to 1
set "spr&loopcount&_height" to 1
set "spr&loopcount&_overlay" to 1
set "spr&loopcount&_vlayer" to 1
set "spr&loopcount&_x" to random 0 to 79
inc "spr&loopcount&_x" by "scrolledx"
set "spr&loopcount&_y" to random 0 to 24
inc "spr&loopcount&_y" by "scrolledy"
set "spr&loopcount&_cwidth" to random 5 to 10
. "the distance it will fall"
put c?? Sprite "loopcount" at "spr&loopcount&_x" "spr&loopcount&_y"
loop for "drops"
: "do"
wait for 1
loop start
dec "spr&loopcount&_x" by "('spr('loopcount')_cwidth'>=3)"
inc "spr&loopcount&_y" by "('spr('loopcount')_cwidth'>=3)"
dec "spr&loopcount&_cwidth" by 1
inc "spr&loopcount&_refx" by "('spr('loopcount')_cwidth'<4)"
if "spr&loopcount&_cwidth" = 0 then "#killdrop"
loop for "drops"
goto "do"
: "#killdrop"
set "spr&loopcount&_off" to 1
set "spr&loopcount&_refx" to 0
set "spr&loopcount&_x" to random 0 to 79
inc "spr&loopcount&_x" by "scrolledx"
set "spr&loopcount&_y" to random 0 to 24
inc "spr&loopcount&_y" by "scrolledy"
set "spr&loopcount&_cwidth" to random 5 to 10
put c?? Sprite "loopcount" at "spr&loopcount&_x" "spr&loopcount&_y"
goto "#return"

edit: fixed for scrolling

This post has been edited by Pyro1588: 25 September 2006 - 06:24 PM

[CHEZZY]

Wow thats heavy rain nice engine though!

[Bramble]

Oh this is such a waste of time. Just make the background white dots with a separate robot to make the snow char scroll downward.

(hee hee)

[T-Bone]

Bramble, on Sep 25 2006, 07:16 PM, said:

Oh this is such a waste of time. Just make the background white dots with a separate robot to make the snow char scroll downward.

(hee hee)

hahaha that's what I do.

EDIT: Wow... Pyro your engine crashed my MZX haha weird. Think its the multible chars or something. Least it worked for others.

EDIT (2): Actually it has nothing to do with the char edit command. Strange enough, after I removed those lines of code it still crashed. Wonder if has something to do with the clipboard saving or maybe its a problem with MZX. But if that were true Chezzy wouldn't of been able to test it.

GASP! I wonder what it could be!

This post has been edited by T-bone6: 26 September 2006 - 12:27 AM

[merder]

the dot char scrolling is also used( in battle) but the sprite snow i'm using in towns and such where the snow some times goes over the overlay(he houses roofs and the talking engine(can be done with simple ma in mzx(scrolled x/y + something))the only annoying part is placing the talkobjects so the don't overwrite the rooftops and such.

[edit]i tried the engine but my robotics editor did't allow the multi char editting commands(for the rest it woked fine).

This post has been edited by merder: 26 September 2006 - 06:10 PM