RPG engine

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#21

@Joe - That was worked out here: https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/73159-dialog-box-print-one-word-at-a-time-until-the-whole-conversation-is-shown/#entry385095

#22

Hi egruttner,

I implemented joystick today as you mentioned.

Here is a video link to the current state of things : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cFil3mFA8d

However there is a pretty big bug here. I need to let go of touch everytime before I can touch any other direction in joypad.

Move the joypad to the right and without letting go of touch, move the joypad in any other direction -> character still keeps moving to right.

The issue is shown in the end of the video. Do you have any suggestions on how this can be fixed?

I implemented joypad today, feels good.

Thanks

#23

Please Note: SSK2 is now free. 

Docs: https://roaminggamer.github.io/RGDocs/pages/SSK2/

GitHub: https://github.com/roaminggamer/SSK2

See the ‘Easy Inputs’ docs for how to use the joystick: https://roaminggamer.github.io/RGDocs/pages/SSK2/libraries/easy_inputs/

and/or 

Look at this code for a basic usage example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roaminggamer/SSK2/master/validation/tests/easyInputs/003_oneStick.lua

#24

Hi Everyone,

I have implemented joystick on my rpg game, it took some time but here is the current state of things:

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cFiojCFkhQ

Thanks to roaminggamer, idurniat, egruttner for suggesting me to implement joystick. Joystick had some major bugs, which I solved last night. Wanted to share a video. Thanks everyone, having a good time here in this forum.

#25

Great work Ahmed!

Sorry for taking too long to answer…I was on a trip.

How did you solved the “joystick issue”? Can you share your solution?

Best regards,

Erich.

#26

Hi Erich,

By joystick issue, I meant the integration of the joystick code with the game code, which I took care of.

Please let me know if you do want to look into the integration.

Enjoy your trip…

#27

Nice work Ahmed, please keep us posted as you progress

#28

Thanks for the encouragement. 

In the first level I am interested to implement rain, not sure how, but looking into resources

#29

great work so far!

#30

Thanks brady for your kind words :slight_smile:

#31

@ahmed_shahjada  for rain effects try Radiance @anaqim’s particle generator in the Corona marketplace.  He even has a rain demo somewhere with both rain falling from the sky and drops hitting the ground.

#32

Rain is pretty easy, to be honest. Just create a displayGroup with about a hundred instances of the same image - a sort of white blurred streak on a transparent background. Give each of these images their own speed variable on creation, with some randomisation, just by adding a table entry for that sprite (for example: displayGroup.numChildren(i).speed = basespeed + math.random(10) )

Then move every image by their “speed” variable amount each frame, and when out of bounds (i.e. when their .y position is too high) reset their position by subtracting a value (like 1000 pixels).

Then you can rotate the displayGroup if you want to, for the angle of the rain.

#33

Oh well. I was bored. Here you go: :slight_smile:

-------------- -- main.lua -- -------------- local rainGroup = display.newGroup() rainGroup.x = 320 rainGroup.y = 480 rainGroup.rotation = 30 local numberOfRainDrops = 100 local widthOfRainGroup = 400 local heightOfRainGroup = 400 local baseSpeed = 10 local maxSpeedVariation = 15 for i = 1, numberOfRainDrops do local rainDropImage = display.newRect(0,0,2,20) rainDropImage.x = -widthOfRainGroup/2+math.random(widthOfRainGroup) rainDropImage.y = -heightOfRainGroup/2+math.random(heightOfRainGroup) rainDropImage.speed = baseSpeed + math.random(maxSpeedVariation) rainDropImage.alpha = 0.5 + math.random(50)/100 rainGroup:insert(rainDropImage) end -- for loop local moveRainDrops = function(event) for i = 1, rainGroup.numChildren do rainGroup[i].y = rainGroup[i].y + rainGroup[i].speed if rainGroup[i].y \> heightOfRainGroup/2 then rainGroup[i].y = rainGroup[i].y - heightOfRainGroup end end end -- moveRainDrops Runtime:addEventListener("enterFrame", moveRainDrops)
#34

@thomas6  Ha, I love it!  It might match this project well too.  Check out an @anaqim’s tutorial on Radiance rain as well, it’s well worth a look - supercool!

#35

Wow the rain effect looks supercool! Thanks guys.

I am finding this forum a source of abundance of knowledge

I wish we could have an active chat room with an admin

#36

@ahmed_shahjada There’s a Slack channel.

One or your fellow RPG developers also uses IRC, too.

#37

Kudos.  Looking great.

#38

Thanks. Was wondering what I can do to improve it.

#39

Not bad:) 

My suggestions:

  • Character move too fast for me,
  • Use various ground. Now it is monotony,
  • Avoid empty space.

Good luck Ahmed.

ldurniat

#40

Hi Idurniat,

Thanks for your feedback.

  • This is just a small demo including basic functionalities, I have not done any tweaking

  • How can I use various grounds to reduce monotony, I am not an expert in pixel art, but is there any good tutorial for level design?

  • What do you mean by avoiding empty space?

Thanks for your feedback, appreciate your answer :slight_smile: