ok a little while ago i started makeing a sidescroller game and put
the graffix here, i kinda made some of it but then i thought, this isnt
that great.. it was ok but i wasnt doing anything new, so im going to
make a sidescroller but im first going to experiment with animations
and stuff so im just gunna post a few random animations (not to be
used in the game) ill make of random thing give a breif explnation
and let u guys tear em to peices so i can improve my animations and
hopefully make some good sprites for the game :D...

ok heres my 1st 1 its like a sword dropping its ok not reli verry
pleased
with this..


a swinging motion im quite happy with this..

Edit


not too happy with this, a gunshot.

Edit


ok i think this is my 1st step towards makeing the actual game
graffix, heres the main charicter..



its a gr8 improvement if u see the old 1 lol...


EDIT!!!!

heres a lil animation of him standeing then well.... doing that
irisistible
thing to do when he thinks no1 is watching...


EDIT

another animation, this time not to be used in the game, just 4 a
forum av on a music forum...


EDIT

here is running or at least what i have of it so far


EDIT

ok i have changed the animation slightly, i cant make him go up
more,
without it looking like hes going too high, so this should do, looks
smother



EDIT

update on running hes now shaded.



Edited by Rifts

Cool blurring effects, but overall yeh theres a few momentum/inertia problems. All you need is a few inbetweens and some follow through frames on things. The gun needs a follow through frame because it seems to stop abruptly, the pendulum needs inbetweens, but I think it swings too shallow given the length of the string, it should swing lower and slower.

Youve got good concepts of keyframing though, keep it up you'll be making some sweet-as sprites in no time.

ok ive redone the swinging pendulum

added an inbertween frame, cheked the string lengths they were ok,
but the blurs were in the wrong direction so i fixed that :)



heres an edit on the gun, i dunno if iv made it better or worse :S


Edited by Rifts

ok i think this is my 1st step towards makeing the actual game
graffix, heres the main charicter..



its a gr8 improvement if u see the old 1 lol...


EDIT!!!!

heres a lil animation of him standeing then well.... doing that
irisistible
thing to do when he thinks no1 is watching...


EDIT

another animation, this time not to be used in the game, just 4 a
forum av on a music forum...


EDIT

here is running or at least what i have of it so far

ok i have changed the animation slightly, i cant make him go up more,
without it looking like hes going too high, so this should do, looks
smother

update on running hes now shaded.

i have like the miniest demo of the game here lol, its not much of a
demmo more just of a display of the graffics so far, im just working on
makeing him jump at the mo lol ill post when its updated.

http://www.xaosswebdesign.com/platform.html

ok iv updated it can now jump and stuff, its a bit dodgey with some of
the colisions its just flashes fault for not being prcise... damn flash ill
still b trying 2 work on it.. over and out (if u click on the older link it will
b the same as the new 1 because its the same filename

Demmo

Looks like he's on the moon. Maybe add a little bit more gravity to it. Looking good so far.

 

Yup works greatly now

Lol I had fun killing the guy :P Also when he lands in the beggining it's good. But when I jump the collision resents and he seems to be floating in the air unless I jump again and the collision sets back to normal again.

you could code something like  this perhaps?

''if guy is floating < 10 pixels above, then guy is floating 0 pixels above)

its weird that flash isnt accurate enough, since there are other platformers out there that work correctly

ok let me correct what i have said, flash is a verry acurate program,
however you have to counter act for things, such as my gravity
value,
for instance if hes falling 5 pixels at a time... i would need to check
hes
hit the ground 5 pixels before he reaches their... otherwise he would
be
buried.. sometimes this works out sometimes it makes him float.. i
have
fixed it now so he always ends up on the line, however, this doesn
mean u
notice more when he slides up to fit the ground, i dont know if this is
better or not so please comment, also in the new verison you can
lose
lives.... but u cant have a game over yet u just go into minus figures
lol. i need to pixel a few more things such as the death message,
before
i go into much more programing but check out the latest

demo

Edited by Rifts

Err... It's not a matter of accuracy. The frame rate is too slow, so you're compensating apparent speed with high speed values (in pixels/frame). Same with gravity.

The result of this, along with a bad implemented collision detection (which just checks collision in the current frame) makes this sort of "ground sinking" effect.

So, you should just increase the frame rate here and optmize the collision detection. It's easy, simple math stuff, you can find nice tutorials out there and even find out the algorithm yourself if you try

I am coding for 2 years now, but I have no idea, why you use 3 flags for jumping (drop, jump and jumping). I would use only one flag, which stores, if the object  is in the air or not.

Furthermore, you store velocity_y (and maybe velocity_x). If the player presses the jump button, add 20 to the object's velocity_y. At every logic-loop, you increase the velocity_y by a certain amount (only, if it isn't touching the ground) and move the object according to this.

edit:


function hero_touches_ground()
{
    if (_root.map.hitTest(_root.hero._x, _root.hero._y, true))
           return true;
    else
          return false;
}

function get_input()
{
    bool touches_ground = hero_touches_ground();
    if (jump_key_release() && touches_ground) // I don't know the name of the function in ActionScript
       _root.hero.velocity_y = 20;
    else if (!touches_ground)
       _root.hero.velocity_y--;
}

function move_hero()
{
    _root.hero._x += _root.hero.velocity_x;
    _root.hero._y += _root.hero.velocity_y;
}

Please bear with me for my already poor ActionScript-knowledge. It's 4 years, since I last did anything with it. But it should give you an idea of what I am talking about.



Edited by imaxcs

@imaxcs - there may seem to be 3 differnt flags for jumping but their
realy isnt, the drop flag is what causes him to fall down to the ground
if hes in the air, nor matter if u have jumped or just walked off
something. jump is what makes you go up, but as u go up the
velocity value goes down, so drop overpowers it and he is droping,
the jumping flag has nothing to do with it and is there just for the
jumping animation, however i will go over my script and see what i
can do looking at what u have put, but i dont pretend to be a flash
expert compared to most people im still not v good lol.

@snader - the reason i dont want 2 use tutorials is i wanted this to be
a self learning thing so i can figure some things out in flash and get a
better understanding as i just said im not amazing at flash.