Sonic

Jedd · Posted: 01 Mar 2004 08:09:59 pm Post subject:

I play the included levels. But that wasn't my point anyway. Intead of

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do

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That's probably what has already been planned on, but im just throwing out my opinion.

Btw has anyone designed any sprites yet?

Keith Pierce · Advanced Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 411

I am still working on them! I have very little time with school and sports! I have been working on sonic, tails, knuckles and robotnick! All i am really doing is atleast trying to make them look have way descent! But hey i dont know! Wink

tr1p1ea · Elite Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 870

CrASH_Man's tilemap routie is very fast ... but it requires a big buffer for tiles and pre multiplied mapdata. Also everything is vertically aligned (as they put it) because the LCD is in vertical mode. The BIG drawback is that because the mapdata is in a pre-multiplied temp array ... you can only have a maximum of 32 tiles in any map ... which is not very high if were talking Sonic Sad

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DigiTan · Posted: 04 Mar 2004 02:20:52 am Post subject:

Any titlescreen ideas on the drawing board yet?

Keith Pierce · Advanced Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 411

yes I do but for some reason I am having problems converting it! Does anyone know how and if so can you help?

tr1p1ea · Elite Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 870

there are a few Sonic projects popping up all over the place! Yay Sonic Goodness! Very Happy

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Also why are you guys worrying about the titlescreen? That should be way down in the list of priorities ..... What about the challenge of getting the scrolling engine done?

DigiTan · Posted: 04 Mar 2004 06:29:47 pm Post subject:

Adm.Wiggin · Posted: 04 Mar 2004 08:39:29 pm Post subject:

its actually called CalcGS, but we wont argue about it :0x5:

anyway, it rox :D

(it also does grayscale perfectly, and map data well)

John Barrus · Member Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 131

I agree with triplea - you guys should get working on the code and stop worrying about the title screen.

As for collision detection: I think I remember Joe P saying that for Metroid, he had a mask for every tile and somehow figured out collisions that way.

Speaking of scrolling and Joe P, I believe his scrolling routine for Metroid allows for scrolling 1,2 or 3 columns at a time-- so I believe that a fast and effective routine for sonic's speed can be written...

Keith Pierce · Advanced Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 411

we have been working on that! Well i have but i have been working on the title screen off and on!

DigiTan · Posted: 05 Mar 2004 04:13:43 pm Post subject:

Well, for the titlescreen, I say it's best to start with the basic tasks first. But the development is totally up to Keith. I'm not absolutly sure this is right, but didn't SQURXZ use a sophisticated collison routine for sloped surfaces? Other than Metroid I can't find too many other programs that had sloped objects.

X1011 · Posted: 05 Mar 2004 07:25:20 pm Post subject:

Mario has hills.

Keith Pierce · Advanced Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 411

yeah i dont know yet on how to do the slopes but i think i may use what sam did for mario i think that may be best!

tr1p1ea · Elite Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 870

Any progress on Sonic?

Keith Pierce · Advanced Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 411

not really been putting all my programing time into chasm 2, but i hope that once chasm 2 is finished that i can work on sonic.

tr1p1ea · Elite Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 870

Gah! ... so sonic is still a go?

Keith Pierce · Advanced Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 411

u bet it is.

DigiTan · Posted: 15 Apr 2004 11:32:26 pm Post subject:

Any luck on a Sonic sprite? I've been trying to draw the little scamp for a while now, but I couldn't come up with anything recognisible.

tr1p1ea · Elite Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 870

There were Sonic Sprites in the OLD thread that were ok ... i did a Sonic Sprite test a long time ago ... but that was in GrayScale Smile

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