Weapon Alpha

[Valo]

Thank you Mat, I really appreciate that. It's always good to have more people to get feedback or advice from!

Now let me shift gears for a moment, because I vaguely remember this game being primarily 2d haha


I actually got something working on the first try for once \o/

Whats going on is that the player is now made of two sprites. Separated by his upper body and the waist down. That blue dot causes the upper sprite to change into a blue recolor. But it is not a color code, it is actually loading in a new sprite. I've implemented this to allow Valo's look to change as he acquires new equipment. I'm unsure if I'll make it so you can swap out equipment or just have things stack with a permanent graphical change. The code is actually pretty simple....which might explain why it worked on the firST TRY BUT I WONT LET YOU TAKE THAT SMALL VICTORY FROM ME!

When i code valo's movement, i still code his animations as if they were generic and simple sprite changes, but in his draw, will be something like the following. the generic animations i code valo with are made invisible by editing in the sprite editor, not code. I do this so valo has an 'animation skeleton' of sorts where i paste two skin sprites over it, an upper body sprite, and a wist and lower sprite. the following code is just for an upper body

//Draw the sprite as gamemaker would do so originally
draw_spritxt(sprite_index,image_index,round(x),round,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha)

if armor=1{

if sprite_index=spr_idle{
draw_spritxt(spr_torsoarmor_idle,image_index,round(x),round,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha) }

if sprite_index=spr_valo_walk{
draw_spritxt(spr_torsoarmor_walk,image_index,round(x),round,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha) }

if sprite_index=spr_valo_shoot{
draw_spritxt(spr_torsoarmor_shoot,image_index,round(x),round,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha) }

if sprite_index=spr_valo_backflip{
draw_spritxt(spr_torsoarmor_backflip,image_index,round(x),round,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha) }

if sprite_index=spr_valo_jump{
draw_spritxt(spr_torsoarmor_jump,image_index,round(x),round,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha) }

if sprite_index=spr_valo_run_shoot{
draw_spritxt(spr_torsoarmor_runshoot,image_index,round(x),round,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha) }

if sprite_index=spr_valo_run{
draw_spritxt(spr_torsoarmor_run,image_index,round(x),round,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha) }

}

-quoted from a hasty pastebin i was using to explain it to someone, please forgive typos and such.


I've got the 2d engine almost back up and running now, if anyone recalls that I wanted to restart it. Theres still a minor collision error that keeps happening though, and it is hard to correct because i cannot reliably recreate it so i cannot clearly ascertain whats causing it. Occasionally when you jump at a wall that is juuuuuuust at the maximum height of your jump, and you bump the edge, the player rockets back down using the same code that happens when they conk their head on a ceiling, and it only happens SOMETIMES and I cant figure out why...