I'd use game engine physics to throw all the pieces in a random direction with gravity, as opposed to animating the death. But that would be me.Bradandez wrote:Also I got my lazy-ass to practice motion tweens in Flash so expect the averageness in my skills.
(Elem's Gibs Animation Attempt #1)
May 2011. Also the month I came up with the idea of ELEM.Adsolution wrote:Neat, how long ago was that?
Thanks!OldClassicGamer wrote:He looks really cool considering it was your first digital artwork of him.
Oh Ad, you know me too well. I'll look into that. This was my 2nd attempt with Motion Tweens, the first was last year.Adsolution wrote:Hehe, you mean the total lack thereof? Try adding just one (going up, then down), and then you can use the motion curve tool to give them a gravity-like parabolic motion.
Huh, interesting!Shrooblord wrote:I'd use game engine physics to throw all the pieces in a random direction with gravity, as opposed to animating the death. But that would be me.
(Very easily done and looks more natural, if you will)
Looks amazing Shroobie.Shrooblord wrote:Real simple-like, too. Here, I sketched this up in Game Maker for you as an example.
Just press R to restart the exploshhiaaaan
Send me all spoliers in PM pleaseBradandez wrote:Well it will be distributed to certain member, so not everyone will get spoiled.
I have the stories for Totem Vista Village and Volcano Inferno Island already done.
Sure! It's all simple Physics; all parts get a random velocity in a random direction (between two values of say 5 pixels per 'step' (the game's time is in 'steps' as opposed to seconds - 30 steps a second in this case - Game Maker's inner workings) and 8 pixels per 'step') and are affected by gravity. I tweaked how much each part is affected by considering how large the part is and how heavy it is. Each also gets a momentum spin affected by how fast it's travelling and some parts are also mirrored as they fly in different directions, but that's purely aesthetical and completely non-sensical in real life.Bradandez wrote:Whoa! Way better than mine! Care to explain how to make it?
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--CREATE EVENT--
//Basically, this 'event' - all code is driven by 'events' in Game Maker - initialises all variables so that they can be used within the object's code
flyoffdir = random(360); //Choose a random value between 0 and 360 (the degrees of the angle in which this particular piece will fly off in)
flyoffspeed = 25-random(5); //The velocity at which this piece will fly off in. Maximum is 25 pixels per step, minimum is 20 (in this particular piece of gib).
hspeed = (cos(flyoffdir) * flyoffspeed); // '*' is this code's way of writing 'is multiplied by'
vspeed = (sin(flyoffdir) * flyoffspeed);
grav = 0.08; //Gravity
t = 0; //A 'time' variable
vy = 0; //y-velocity
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--STEP EVENT--
//Every 'step' of the game (1/30th of a second in this game), this code is run:
t += 1; // '+= 1' means 'add one relatively'; if the value is '1', for example, the value becomes '2'. The next time the code is run, it becomes '3'.
vy += grav*t;
y += vy;
x += hspeed;
image_angle += hspeed; //The displayed rotation of the object.
image_xscale = sign(hspeed); //The image's scaling in x-direction is equal to the sign (+1 or -1) of the horizontal speed.
image_yscale = sign(hspeed); //Idem but in y-direction
if image_xscale = 0 {image_xscale = 1;}
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--DRAW EVENT--
//This event draws the object on the screen. Don't worry about this big function described below - it's just interesting to people who are into Game Maker.
draw_sprite_ext(sprite_index,image_index,x,y,image_xscale,image_yscale,image_angle,image_blend,image_alpha);