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Technical forum / Re: How does one play "Spank the hero"?

« on: June 04, 2019, 04:52:47 PM »

I'm afraid it was never released. The title was "Struggle for Life and Honour".

https://web.archive.org/web/20111211154416/http://www.sflah.com:80/main.php

Hmmmm... what a pity! How come no one here supported his project? Spank the Hero looked so promising  I wonder what Igorrr is currently up to.

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Technical forum / Re: How does one play "Spank the hero"?

« on: June 02, 2019, 07:35:50 PM »

Yes, it's just a tech-demo Igorrr developed as a fighting prototype for his main game.

Was his main game released then? What's the title?

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Technical forum / How does one play "Spank the hero"?

« on: June 01, 2019, 07:04:35 PM »

Dear Muties,

I downloaded and ran Spank the Hero on my computer. Figured out how to beat the monster with Left + space buttons. However, after the enemy is dead, night comes and nothing happens next. Is there something more or is it only a demo for fighting made with WME?

THANK YOU!

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Technical forum / Re: 2D sidescroller/platformer with WME?

« on: June 01, 2019, 06:15:12 PM »

Guys, was "Spank the Hero" the only successful attempt to make a fighting game in WME? This game never was added to the games section on the site... and Igorrr seems to be away long ago 

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Game announcements / Re: The Death of Erin Myers

« on: May 28, 2019, 03:35:15 PM »

Hey Dan,

I've watched the trailer on Steam. Looks like the game has great graphics and some mystery in the plot. It gave me the David Lynch-like vibes Good luck making your other installments of the series!

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Technical forum / 2D sidescroller/platformer with WME?

« on: May 28, 2019, 03:25:37 PM »

Hi Muties!

I've got a question. Is it possible to make a 2D sidescroller/platformer game like the first Prince of Persia (1989)?

Has anyone already done this with WME? Any advice, code snippets to share? There were example games like White Chamber or Spank the Hero for other genres. I'm going to deal a lot with drawing 2D character sprites and the backgrounds, but the technical side of game development is pretty hard for me. So please excuse my level of wit in coding.

Thanks a lot!

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Technical forum / Re: "ActorEntry" equivalent for entities/secondary actors

« on: January 15, 2018, 03:25:04 AM »

Quick update : I managed to have a correct behaviour, but only because I have only 2 actors

Hey ylegrand!

I am pretty green to WME and know nothing about programming, but when I tried to load and set in motion several actors in my scene the problem was in 'Game.MainObject = actor;' line.

Maybe this will help you. Please tell me if that was the point.

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Technical forum / Re: The illusion of vehicle movement across the scene (on the X-axis)

« on: January 15, 2018, 03:18:21 AM »

Hi anarchist!

I have not tested this code so if it produces errors let us know which errors appear

Well, I did paste your code in scene_init.script after reading your helpful comments and guess what? No errors were identified in the debug. FANTASTIC! 

However, I keep getting this behavior from first tree entity (

treebg1.X = 0;

, remember?):

https://ibb.co/gvUr96

You see? First treebg2 entity appears in the FAR LEFT (no problem with that) and nearly a second later treebg1 emerges from nowhere.

, or better yet try to solve them yourself first 

In the attempt to solve this issue on my own I changed the starting x coordinate of the car entity, however the result turned out to look even more unnatural: first we see both tree entities frozen in the FAR LEFT edge and the car entity drives in to its SkipTo point from the FAR RIGHT edge and finally trees start moving like they should 

My question is -
Is there a way to start the scene with this FAR LEFT edge hidden somehow from our view? Is it possible to shift the "view" a bit to the right in order to conceal the starting points of the trees? Please tell me what you think about this!

This way no one will notice treebg1 teleportation))

Here are the scene files for your kind consideration. This way we both will see what the issue is with those tree entities.

My background image is 2400 X 600 and the scene "view" is 800 X 600. Any ideas about shifting the "view" from the default FAR LEFT background edge to the right?

anarchist, THANK YOU for your patience and knowledge! I guess it is difficult to understand things that I try to express sometimes (like with this last "view" question). Maybe we perceive the problem from different angles - logical (you) and visual (me). Will really have to reinvent my mind to acquire a programming mind type lol.

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Technical forum / Re: The illusion of vehicle movement across the scene (on the X-axis)

« on: January 13, 2018, 03:16:52 PM »

Basically you'd need just one script, that would move it's owner entity by decreasing its X position, and if X is lower than some threshold, it would increase it again and repeat the process.

What you want is the entities to start on the start position, move right and then, when they have reached a predefined position on the right they appear on the left.

Not wishing to sound harsh but all you do is to reset the x,y coordinnates for each object within a loop.

Hey guys!

Sorry, but I still don't understand how to make your script work for multiple tree entities. I tried to adjust it for several trees, and in the end it always causes errors and undesirable behavior. Please, if you know how the script should work, tell me what's the solution for several entities.

This script could be good for clouds too, btw.

THANK YOU for your friendly attitude and help!

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Technical forum / Re: The illusion of vehicle movement across the scene (on the X-axis)

« on: December 22, 2017, 09:41:35 PM »

Hey Muties!

Finding the answers to these questions is a good way to overcome the background width limitation for everyone who would like to create a scene with "movement illusion". Let's come up with a template.

Please kindly view my questions about the script and scene setting in previous messages here. Any ideas on how the script could be customized for smooth "movement" of multiple entities?

This may seem as something obvious for a person proficient in scripting, but, honestly, to me this is not that easy.

Thank you for your attention, patience and advice, guys! 

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Technical forum / Re: The illusion of vehicle movement across the scene (on the X-axis)

« on: December 18, 2017, 08:36:44 PM »

Hi anarchist!

This approach is not correct. What you want is the entities to start on the start position, move right and then, when they have reached a predefined position on the right they appear on the left.

Do you mean ALL tree entities in the scene must have X=0 as their starting point? In that case how do we prevent them from overlapping each other (set a space/time delay between them)?

I would also rethink what to use in the while() statement. You probably want this script to run for a specific duration of time, so you could probably use a counter variable.

The reason for me placing the x-axis coordinates in the while() statement is that I misunderstand how this script could work for multiple tree entities, not just one. Or should there be a separate loop for each entity?

4. In terms of question 3 I thought maybe if there was a way to only display a central area of the scene background, then the tree entities had enough time and space to appear at their initial positions while we don't see them, move across the visible scene area and then reach the limit positions in the second area that we don't see. Does that make sense? If yes, how do we display the central part of 2400 X 600 background? What can I make in SceneEdit or in scene_init.script?

Hope this screen will illustrate what I mean: 

I still don't know the way to only display a central part of the long background image so that the starting and end destinations of tree entities were invisible. Any advice?

THANK YOU for your attention, time and friendly help!

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Technical forum / Re: The illusion of vehicle movement across the scene (on the X-axis)

« on: December 09, 2017, 12:34:33 AM »

Hi anarchist,

Please kindly view these questions:

What you need to do is have an if() statement inside the while loop, which will check whether the tree has moved too much, and reset its X position to 0.

1. Does this script express your point?

Code: WME Script

1. treebg1.X=0;
2. while (treebg1.X<800+512)
3.   {
4.     treebg1.X = treebg1.X+1;
5.     Sleep(2);
6.         if(treebg1.X == 1200)
7.         {
8.           treebg1.X=0;
9.         }
10.   }

I tried it and it worked! The tree entity (treebg1) started racing across the screen repeatedly. However I have some doubts, if it is okey from your point of view.

2. I tried to think how this script could be applied to other tree entities and a house entity. Will the following approach be correct?

Code: WME Script

1. treebg1.X=0;
2. treebg2.X=100;
3. while (treebg1.X<800+512 + treebg2.X<800+336)
4.   {
5.   treebg1.X = treebg1.X+1;
6.   Sleep(2);
7.         if(treebg1.X == 1200)
8.         {
9.           treebg1.X=0;
10.         }
11.  
12.   treebg2.X = treebg2.X+1;
13.     Sleep(0);
14.         if(treebg2.X == 2000)
15.         {
16.           treebg2.X=100;
17.         }
18.   }

3. The code from the previous question seems to work, yet entity sprites behave oddly - they sometimes appear from the left edge of screen as if right from the air, from nowhere (not from behind the left edge). And sometimes first tree joins second tree on the run like the engine doesn't manage to "draw" it in time Well, of course, WME is not the reason, and I blame my imperfect math knowledge. Is there a way to improve this scenario somehow to make the entities  emerge more naturally?

4. In terms of question 3 I thought maybe if there was a way to only display a central area of the scene background, then the tree entities had enough time and space to appear at their initial positions while we don't see them, move across the visible scene area and then reach the limit positions in the second area that we don't see. Does that make sense? If yes, how do we display the central part of 2400 X 600 background? What can I make in SceneEdit or in scene_init.script?

Hope this screen will illustrate what I mean: 



THANK YOU, anarchist! The scene starts getting closer and closer to what it was thought to be, yet there are some things I can't resolve without help from the community.

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Technical forum / Re: The illusion of vehicle movement across the scene (on the X-axis)

« on: December 08, 2017, 12:59:35 PM »

Dear Muties! Still need your help with the scene. eborr's code works fine, yet I tried to set it to repeat numerous times and... nothing.

How is it possible to make an entity (such as treebg1) move across the scene over and over again?

THANK YOU for your attention and help!

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Technical forum / Re: Strangest problem ever - registry path sound troubles

« on: December 07, 2017, 06:32:06 PM »

However, I found the root of the problem.

Hi Mikael!

I am glad you found solution of your problem.

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Technical forum / Re: Second actor creation and cutscene

« on: December 05, 2017, 09:36:07 PM »

Great article! 

Hey NAItReIN!

THANK YOU for your kind words! Btw I sent you a personal message with a question. Please kindly view it and tell me what you think.