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Custom Movement Assembly Kit - Do it yourself!

Author:

Sly

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22nd November, 2002

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Although i hate doing this, i want the work i put into this article to be viewed on my site...

But, i'll tell you what the article is basically about...
I'm sure alot of you have wanted to create yourself a custom movement, but wasn't sure how...or perhaps the same bugs kept reocurring? Well i hope i can solve yer problems.
I wrote, or should i say, I am writing this ongoing tutorial for SFGHQ specifically, however, so far the methods used and the results can be used for almost any game (platformers, mainly).

So, i won't lie to you...it'll take you a little while to put this thing together, but there's pictures and the like to help you, and i've tried to incorprate every tiny little detail, just to make sure you can't make any mistakes. =D

http://slipstream.sepwich.com/click/articles/article1.htm

Posted by awesomesoft

22nd November, 2002

Ummm, it said it was in mind for TGF...

Posted by Shen

23rd November, 2002

There's nothing wrong with using the MMF timer. Podunkian, can you say exactly what you think is wrong with it?

Posted by Sly

23rd November, 2002

I know what he thinks is wrong with it...

There's a rumour that if you use TGF or MMF's timer, it will slow down emmensly when running on either a slow computer, or a computer with low system resources. Perhaps this is true, but some of the methods i've seen can have the opposite effect, and create a 'faster-than-needed' loop on a faster computer. =/

Posted by ben_02

23rd November, 2002

The timer is for timing things according to actual time, in seconds/minutes etc.
It's not a good idea to use it for repetitive events, because even if the game slows down, the timer will stay the same.

Posted by The Chris Street

23rd November, 2002

Hmm...normally this would be deleted as it's a link...but it's extremely well written. I'll allow this...this time

Podunkian, this most certainly doesn't suck. But you insult everything anyway.

Posted by Sly

23rd November, 2002

Thank you Circy. I wasn't sure, since i've seen articles which have been linked before. It also uses pictures, and i've found the html on the DC to be, how should i put it, 'dodgy'?

Posted by

24th November, 2002

Klik timers, as Ben said, in short words, suck. When you're trying to achieve a perfect jump, for example, mmf's timer will make it jump ok sometimes, and terribly low other times.

I made an example on how to replace this, look for it in the articles under the "Replacing every condition".

Posted by JJ45

28th November, 2002

You suck podunkian!

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Sly

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