I need to make some lightning for a game AS A WEAPON (it needs to be able to collide)
I have a lightning bomb which shoots lightning randomly outward.
I have found a method to do this.
You make it shoot a tracer which drops objects that have OR transparancy so
that they connect like lightning. When their animation is over, they die.
This works BEAUTIFULLY, except it uses too many objects.
(My game is a major object hog.)
Please give me a method to do this with programming not picture.
(PS=
(Please no Advanced Math)
(Needs collision abilitys)
(Needs to launch in ANY DIRECTION)(Out of 32)
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You could just increase the size of the objects, thus reducing the number of objects needed to pull off the effect. If you're using MMF, you could also just increase the maximum object count to 10,000. If you've already tried both of those things, then I really don't know what to tell you...
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Hmm... well, to be honest, trying to pull off complex effects like that in TGF probably isn't going to work out for you since you're limited to something like 260 objects. I don't want this to sound like an advertisement or anything, but you might want to consider upgrading.
This has been a paid presentation from Kirby Smith
PS : Only amateurs with no imagination can't use TGF for complex effects...
Show me the power child,
I'd like to say,
That I'm down on my knees today,
Gives me the butterflies,
Gives me away,
'Til I'm up on my feet again,
I'm feeling outshined.
I use TGF for Complex effects all the time.
Its a little harder but still easy.
(I love OR transparancy)
I would get MMF if it was cheap.
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Just kidding! Good luck on making money advertising
MMF for Clickteam!
lol
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Make sure the lightening effect generates 1.21 jiggawatts of electricity otherwise it's a phoney!
Show me the power child,
I'd like to say,
That I'm down on my knees today,
Gives me the butterflies,
Gives me away,
'Til I'm up on my feet again,
I'm feeling outshined.
Remember Ashman. Click games use visual effects to
simulate experiences, not create them. The electricity
required is only that to project the image.
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Cool, It would be best if you could shoot it in 32 directions though.
Oh well.
PS: Thx Kirby Smith, but I might use this instead.
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Have you tried "Destroy objects if far away from playfield" or something with that name?
Also, I'm not sure if this works, but it would be interesting to see if just having objects in different levels that would be created in a different frame would take care of this object problem.
Keatonian wins Ashmans 'TAKE THINGS TOO LITERALLY' award, along with the 'WATCH THE BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY ALREADY' award.
Show me the power child,
I'd like to say,
That I'm down on my knees today,
Gives me the butterflies,
Gives me away,
'Til I'm up on my feet again,
I'm feeling outshined.
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