Reboot Comp Entry - WestIsBest

[MrmediamanX]

Time for some alpha channel grenada sorting.....

Still chipping away at it? come back to the light side oh coded one return to the language of legend .... the blitz.

[3DzForMe]

I've still got a place in my heart for B3D 😁

[Xerra]

I reckon if you switched to GMS2 then you could put together West is best in a couple of days. Just saying :-)

[3DzForMe]

Couple of days.... That's not how art evolves, a good game is like a fine wine..... 

[3DzForMe]

I confess, ended up just drawing a new grenade with an alpha channel on the background - trying to add a transparent background to my existing greande eluded me.

Now, grenades flying OVER the background seemlessly

Next, second guns bullets not stop Matrix style when a consecutive bullet is fired.

[3DzForMe]

Bazooka button invoked - increasing the chance of killing P2 before the wagon disappears of the bottom of the telly..... I mean monitor.

Its been a while since I coded on a 14" fergusn colour telly

[3DzForMe]

a little vid of guns1, 2 and the grenade launcher (eh, that'll be his arm then - its low-fi remember) working:-

Next, to get some sound invoked, dead mans click, booms for the grenade going off etc....

And the obligatory boot hill music as a player pushes up the daises.

[RemiD]

making some progress 


maybe add some particles of impact ?

[3DzForMe]

.  maybe add some particles of impact ?     

@Remid, you've read my mind. Over the last few months I've been thinking 'I'm sure I bought a particle editor with AGK......', although it's been taking me forever to get the game mechanics operating properly...... 

[3DzForMe]

@RemiD - you're an inspiration - getting my suede around the AGK particle editor - although I suspect its hi-rez explosions will complement my low-rez two gun text:

[3DzForMe]

OK..... Got the particles compiling into a fork of West is best..... Post getting some new sporty gear in the sales.... Can I render some particles along with my sterling 'bang' gif..?

[3DzForMe]

The short answer for rendering particles into a 2D environment is I give up for now - going to try something achievable and invoke some sounds.

Advice on particle physics into 2D environment: https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/225812


[EDIT]  Not one to admit defeat, managed to get my head around some particle physics 101 stuff:

Hyperlink

So, no work done on sounds - however - got my suede around the synatx for some particle physics ness, sweet.

[RemiD]

The short answer for rendering particles into a 2D environment is I give up for now

actually it is very easy to render flat particles in a 2d game (in a 3d world)... you just have to position each particle on a different layer (plane) so that they can't intersect.

for a simple game like yours, you don't need to use a single surface system, so if each particle is a separate entity, and if each entity is on a different plane, no manual zordering should be necessary...

the zordering issue appear when the triangles with alpha texels are in the same surface...

if you post a code example of your problem, i can take a look and suggest an improvement...

[3DzForMe]

@RemiD thanks for the offer of help.  I didn't opt for trying to code the particles directly as I recalled I'd purchased a particle generator with my AGK Studio purchase a few moons ago.

Happy to report my initial foray into the particle editor has been quite fruitful, although the imagination is doing backflips now - requirements creep, oh yeah!

For now have been toying with P1, P2 size after some suggestions from iWasAdam..... AGK is ace

[Xerra]

Think you need those players further away from each other else it's going to be a slaughterfest