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[RowanFN]

The code for gradual turning towards direction is:

image_angle+=(sin((direction-image_angle)*pi/180)*8);

Change 8 higher or lower to make it go faster or slower, respectively.

so with this code, where abouts should i add it, and which one should i get rid of... i'm not with it today lol

and once someone has this mouse movement type thing, i think it should be uploaded again as an extra tut add on maybe....?

[thatshelby]

Instead of 'image_angle=direction', put that code. Also, I don't think it's necessary to upload something for mouse-movement-to-direction. It's beyond simple, and there are countless others for it. Let this one focus.

[Coffee]

Wow, really nice job there. 8/10

[Slinky]

I have a stomach infection right now, so when I saw this topic it was so awesome that I literally sh*t my pants.
I know that was weird.

Very, very cool. This is awesome and thank you.

[ej510]

How do I make a the sprite have side designs????

[Fihrilkamal]

Thank you very much coffee, Slinky, and all. ej510, I'm sorry but I'm not understand what do you mean with side designs?

[RowanFN]

think they meant like if you have a car, you have a bottom, then the side would be doors etc and then a roof, but its hard to draw that on a flat image.... or something like that, and can you do a coded version instead of D&D?

[Fihrilkamal]

If this is what side sprite design means. Then it will require a lot of layer, and need a lot sprites. If you want to make a good looking sprite then you'll need to test and draw the sprite again and again until it looks good. You know I spent more than 2 hours to draw that organic boy example.

[Slinky]

I see! So you have to do each layer pixel by pixel. Whoa.

[RowanFN]

kinda makes sense, and should be cool to give it a shot,

but a coded version as well would be handy,


...on a side note i still cant do the flipping mouse thing.... dam....

[ej510]

If this is what side sprite design means. Then it will require a lot of layer, and need a lot sprites. If you want to make a good looking sprite then you'll need to test and draw the sprite again and again until it looks good. You know I spent more than 2 hours to draw that organic boy example.

Thanks Fihrilkamal for helping and for this AWESOME Tutorial!!!!And thanks RowanFN for explaining what I meant.

[ej510]

kinda makes sense, and should be cool to give it a shot,

but a coded version as well would be handy,


...on a side note i still cant do the flipping mouse thing.... dam....

what flipping mouse thing???

[RowanFN]

No problem,

and the flipping was just a word, i just still can't solve making him move towards the mouse...its becoming a bigger pain than i thought

[C_Pike]

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No problem,

and the flipping was just a word, i just still can't solve making him move towards the mouse...its becoming a bigger pain than i thought

in the step event, key up, and key down events, put:
image_angle+=(sin((point_direction(x,y,mouse_x,mouse_y)-image_angle)*pi/180)*8);

re-size the boy sprites so they are square, then rotate them so they all face right. Crop them and re center the xy coordinate.
in the up down event, remove the +90, -90 from the image_angle = direction, and in the key down event make the speed -5

----edit
just did this it and it works btw

Edited by C_Pike, 10 June 2011 - 05:17 PM.

[RowanFN]

ahh thanks man, was the code that was needed, with point_direction and that, course lol

Thanks a load, and does work perfectly, now this is gunna be good

[gmx0]

Been done before, especially sub's RTS examples and my Zombolocaust: Nazis and Zombies game.

But I do admit, that mech robot looks really cool.

[Fihrilkamal]

Been done before, especially sub's RTS examples and my Zombolocaust: Nazis and Zombies game.

But I do admit, that mech robot looks really cool.

Thank you, I think this method was a new method at first, but I just know that there's many people have done this before already

[teej]

Yeah brilliant, I remember those fake 3d before... but thanks to you for rekindling the method. Someone with great 2d sprite skill can make something special with this method.

[Fihrilkamal]

Yeah brilliant, I remember those fake 3d before... but thanks to you for rekindling the method. Someone with great 2d sprite skill can make something special with this method.

You're welcome teej! Yes I agree with you, with this method we can produce high quality 2.5 D graphic. And, did you notice the HUD or User Interface system in this example? It is actually not affected by the view rotation nor zooming, and it's simply uses d3d_set_projection_ortho() function.

[thatshelby]

Does this work with the view_angle variable?