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[Natho]

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Title: Realistic Platformer Water Tutorial
Description: A tutorial on how to create a realistic water environment for platform games.
Type: .gm6 source file (zipped) with .pdf written tutorial.
GM Version: 6.1 (registered)
Link: Download
Filesize: 23 kB
Screenshots:[1]
Other Info: GM6 file only features water settings and water collision.

Your feedback is greatly appreatiated. And be mindful, this is my first attempt at a tutorial and it any bugs or errors you report will be fixed. I also plan on updating this file with more in due time. Thanks

Screenshot

Edited by xot, 15 April 2008 - 01:10 AM.

[smegamario]

Simple and easy to understand... I like it. Some more animation would be good... but I can add that. 10/10.

[cronus616]

not bad. it works and looks nice.
as smegamario said, easy to understand.
love the pictures of the platformer on the pdf.

[Natho]

not bad. it works and looks nice.
as smegamario said, easy to understand.
love the pictures of the platformer on the pdf.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks for the replies, took me about 20mins of tweaking the water to get it right for my platformer, then i figured later id have a go at writing a tutorial, so i chose it. I put alot of work into that platformer to make it look good but unfortunately the movement in it is a bit bugged. But atm im working on adding things like buoyancy to make objects that would be lighter float, for example barrels, but im not having much luck. Ill keep yas posted. THanks again

[GameRG]

Thanks for the replies, took me about 20mins of tweaking the water to get it right for my platformer, then i figured later id have a go at writing a tutorial, so i chose it. I put alot of work into that platformer to make it look good but unfortunately the movement in it is a bit bugged. But atm im working on adding things like buoyancy to make objects that would be lighter float, for example barrels, but im not having much luck. Ill keep yas posted. THanks again

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice! I liked the alpha stuff!
Would a good idea be setting the buoyancy as a variable in create, and using things like check if it is under 0.3, 0ver 0.31, so on and so forth. And the speed it sinks depends on a variable like weight.

[Sindarin]

Very nice, maybe you could add distortion to the objects that are in it.
That can be done with surfaces and it isn't very hard.

[x-death]

well a screenshot would have been nice!
but i downloaded it anyway and its great 100/10

[Natho]

Lol, i could of thought of a nicer way to ask for a screenshot but ok. Ill upload one in a sec. Thanks for the Feedback guys ill look into the buoyancy. Cheers

[Vyzer]

Real water doesn't fade into the air.

[Natho]

Real water doesn't fade into the air.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No, but its clear at the very top...

[Blue Leader]

That's pretty neat. Pretty simple to understand too-- even for me. XD

Though, any chance for a "splash" when an object collides with the water?

[x-death]

That's pretty neat. Pretty simple to understand too-- even for me. XD

Though, any chance for a "splash" when an object collides with the water?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

all that really is is just a sprite really i would think

Lol, i could of thought of a nicer way to ask for a screenshot but ok. Ill upload one in a sec.

ha sorry in not that good at finding nicer ways of saying stuff but screenshot looks great hope this remains to be a great example and i hope everyone loves it!

[Natho]

ha sorry in not that good at finding nicer ways of saying stuff but screenshot looks great hope this remains to be a great example and i hope everyone loves it!

I would of hoped so, but it seems we were both wrong

Just thought id bump this and ask if anyone has any questions or requests for this topic. Thanks

Natho

[Bazza_Boy]

Do i give credit????

[TonyBase]

The coding for this was, well, it was alright, you could've made this in a much easier way, but the use of that function, sprite_get_alpha_from_sprite(), that was pretty nice. The effect was very beautiful, so I'm most likely keeping this and seeing if I can make this better, myself. This achieved the desired effect, easily, though, and I congradulate you on a very nice and pretty example. Good job.

[Pengun X]

Does anybody have a copy of this file so that I could look at it? The original link is dead.

[FRIDG3]

-sigh- dead link.

[max_r_61270]

Could you relink this? I've been working on water for a long time and & can never get it right

[why789]

relink please

[Fruckert]

The OP is a little over 3 years old, guys.
I don't think it's going to happen.