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zzz
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Black Ethereal, Now you can move the camera up and down!
And I´ve increased the fps when the grass is displayed.
And I´ve even made a small flash that appear when the sword hits the enemy!
Tomorrow I´ll make the monsters die and loose their souls!
Muahahahahaha!



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Still very impressive, zzz! Your animations are very good indeed and I'm rather impressed by the look of your collision too. Very well done, it can be tricky

As for GUI's, if you like the screen uncluttered, it's often quite nice to have any visual readouts fade off when not being used, and then re-appear when they are used. For example, fade the health bar off when you're safe and then fade it back in when you get hit, or regain health. You could have a button that manually forces it to reappear also.
But who am I to talk - your game looks ace and you seem to know what you're doing with it

You're coming along brilliantly!
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Enemies can now be killed, and their souls can be absorbed with the sword!

Still, I have to fix some blood or smoke when the enemy dies. And an animation when soul is absorbed.

@ Tinkergirl
Is it possible to make those fadings in DBC?



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Nope, unless you play a bit with lights.

Also a possibility is color the object slowly to black. Disadvantage is that you can't work with textures.



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I don't believe so no. However, another option would be to have the health bar slide on and off the screen. When you are safe the health bar can be to the left of the screen and then move right until it is fully visible when enemies are around.

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zzz, you're using DBC? o_O

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Quote: " zzz, you're using DBC? o_O"


Yeeesss, this fact has been established several times....

Oh yeah, and with regards to the health bar, I'd load an image of the 'full' health bar and, for every loop, make a clone of the original image and paint over it with black so that the desired 'current' health is achieved.
Then, paste it on the screen with the ',1' flag at the end of paste image to turn on the "black=transparency" option...

We don't need no stinkin' sprites!
(I personally always paste image manually...)

16-colour PNGs pwn.
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Quote: "Quote: " zzz, you're using DBC? o_O"

Yeeesss, this fact has been established several times....
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I just found that quite shocking for the level of graphics he's using.
He appears to be using mesh deformation too

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Steve Fash
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*fantastic*
looking forward to a demo
Keep up the great work !
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Quote: "I just found that quite shocking for the level of graphics he's using.
He appears to be using mesh deformation too "


I really dont think the programming language applies to the quality of the graphics. If hes good at moddelling, it doesnt matter.

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Quote: "I really dont think the programming language applies to the quality of the graphics. If hes good at moddelling, it doesnt matter.
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Well, they can be higher poly in DBP, I think 'cause it's faster.

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zzz
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Quote: "I just found that quite shocking for the level of graphics he's using.
He appears to be using mesh deformation too "

No mesh deformation...
Thank you guys 4 all those healthbar suggestions!
I´m thinking of using something else, hopefully something more originally than hearts...
I can also say that the thing behind the soulhunter logo, is a soul.



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Quote: "I really dont think the programming language applies to the quality of the graphics. If hes good at moddelling, it doesnt matter.
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I know it doesn't matter if hes good at moddelling.
I was meaning, that DBC supports much less polygons and as Manticore Night said, DBC is alot slower! And as I said before, it appeared as if he was using mesh deformation. But he has said he is not.

@zzz
Are you using limb animations then?
Or are you using interploration animation?

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Posted: 15th Dec 2005 22:11 Edited at: 15th Dec 2005 22:11
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New screenshot!

Things that I have done:
Main coding(steer, jump, etc.)
Each monster got their own health
Monsters can be killed
Souls can be absorbed by the sword
Soulhunter have a health and can lose health.

Things that I have to do:
Blood thingy, when monster dies.
More enemies.
More things to jump on
Trees, dungeons.
Levels
Save function(will be imported from "the digger")
Intro movie
And more...


Why´s there a cloud over my head?



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Why indeed. But who cares, it looks cool...!


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Tisk tisk, I go away for 2 weeks come back and hardly any advances in the game, chop chop, don't keep me waiting too long

*Rant Part*
Blood effect when monster dies shouldn't take more than 1 or 2 minutes coding it then creating textures etc.. 1 or 2 mins...

More enemies, if you've coded the game in the right way it should be no problem to add in more enemies by switching one variable

More things to jump on - depends how many objects, probably be on going until you've created all the levels.

Trees, dungeons / Levels probably 2-5 hours...

Save function(will be imported from "the digger") - takes about 1 minute to code

Intro movie - should be done at the very end, like most games.. can take from 1 second to 5 days depends how you want it.

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Quote: " Tisk tisk, I go away for 2 weeks come back and hardly any advances in the game, chop chop, don't keep me waiting too long"


Sephiro,
Shutup and go away for another 2 weeks ya loser. Theres been a lot of progress.
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Posted: 16th Dec 2005 02:21
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Yea, besides he was GONE for 10days.

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Posted: 16th Dec 2005 11:29 Edited at: 16th Dec 2005 14:00
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Yeah, and I have to go to school too, and when I´m home i´m too tired to code...
And we only have one computer in my family.

With more enemies I meant different types.
And the save thing will be imported(or recoded) when I have specified all variables.
And the blood will be brought to you today!



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Posted: 16th Dec 2005 16:22 Edited at: 17th Dec 2005 17:02
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Here you go guyz!
Monsterblood as I promised!
And a soul...

Tomorrow I´ll make a small demon-dog.



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Sweet!


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zzz: Didnt know you had a WIP! Very impressed with this!
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that monster just got owned!
Nice blood.
The soul is cool too.

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Hrrm, the demon-dog became a demon-pig...
Maybe I´ll make some changes on it...





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lol

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coming along better than i thought it was , keep it up the steady progress and i'll be expecting a short demo around christmas time.

But it doesn't take 1 entire day to make 1 enemy... yeye you said you have school big woop i work from 4:30pm - 2:00 am and i still have time to code / bar crawls

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I´m not a machine...



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Quote: "But it doesn't take 1 entire day to make 1 enemy... yeye you said you have school big woop i work from 4:30pm - 2:00 am and i still have time to code / bar crawls "

Some of us do have lives outside of programming...

I love the blood effect, and the soul. The Demon pig looks very nice.


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Great job!
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zzz couple questions for you:
1.) give a rough estimated date for a demo.
2.) how many DIFFERENT types of monsters will there be per level? or shall that vary... if so roughly?
3.) What happens when you get to have soo many soals collected in the sword? a power-up attack?
4.) When going to different levels/dungeons will it be like morrowind style... or shinobi style or your own unique style?

Morrowind style being all the maps are available free to walk around to different parts

Shinobi style being - mission after mission unlocking new areas, If you've played the game you'll have a better under-standing of what point i'm trying to get across.

*Side comment*
"I´m not a machine..." of course your not *pats him on the head*

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Quote: "1.) give a rough estimated date for a demo."


A tip/suggestion to zzz: 'When it's ready' is the traditional reply to this question...

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@ Sephiro
1) As blanky said: When it´s ready.
2) More than two, that´s for sure.
3) Maybe, good idea!
4) Shinobi style, maybe? I haven´t played those games...

I´m not a machine...
I´m great lord of darkness, so stop patting my head!





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Those are wonderfuly stylized trees.


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Thanx, Bizar Guy!
I found a new grass texture! Do you guys think it´s better than the old one?
[Edit] I managed to increase the amount of grass and the fps! (Not shown in the screenshot)




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It's scary looking

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zzz, you're doing great The progress your showing is amazing - and you're getting stuff done really really quickly! Don't be worrying about people being all demanding - they're just excited about your game But keep going as long as you're having fun - there's nothing like feeling like it's a chore to put you off.

And, as a side note - I like the new grass texture better
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Thank you Tinkergirl!

I´ve recoded the save function from scratch and now I have to do the loading part.
Right now I´m working with a GUI.
[Edit] Gui=done!



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Maybe I give you too much screenshots, but here´s the GUI!
[Edit] scroll down!



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Thats some foshizzle ma nizzle work!
But really, take away that.. erm... text and it looks great
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Yeah i´ll make a new screenshot...



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There you go!




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Grass looks ALLOT better. From what i've seen you've started to progress at a fast rate i'm almost impressed

Keep up the good work

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Quote: "i´m almost impressed"

Thank you very much!



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Grass looks quite awesome mate keep it up!


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Thanx, Hawkeye!

I´ll try to use cel-shading(Thank you Bizar Guy!) as glow effect for ghosts or faeries!

This will be the last boss... Just joking!

[Edit] Today I´ve been fighting a really weird bug. I fixed it, but it can appear again. It´s really really weird and unlogic...

[Edit2] That freak-bug is now totally defeated, I figured out how to fix it when I was sleeping...



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Your welcome!!

Nice cell shaded model! Do you plan to texture it?


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Yeah, cel-shading is something that I haven't thought of in my game yet, but I'm considering it. Looks nice though, love the HUD!!
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This is one sexy looking WIP! I like the feel of originality it conveys, and you seem to be making progress in great strides. I can't wait for a demo

Keep up the good work!

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@ Bizar Guy: No, I just did it as a test.

@ Xenocythe: Thank you! I´m going to try making several of layers with outlines(on some objects), slowly fading away. That will give the object a glow effect!

@ SirFire: I´m glad that you seem to like the game too! Have you watched the videos?

---- ----
Today I´ve fixed some bugs(Not the insects. ) and I´ve started to model a fairy- or an angel"thing", that can replenish Soulhunters´ health. I think I´ll finish it tomorrow. I´ve also made some quick sketches on a new enemy with four arms!
Aaaaaaah!



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