Voxatron users I have a question.
Do you think it's possible to make build tool from scratch?
Thx
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Hey All
So you may be wondering what I've been up to for the last 4 months or so, and I'll post all about that very soon! v0.3.3 has required a lot of general housekeeping work including improving the player inventory system to function nicely with world state saving, scripting and controls. As a result, it became a good opportunity to also squeeze in weapon switching and custom HUDs.
Here's the design I have -- please feel free to comment and criticize -- especially if it looks like it won't carry ideas for carts you'd like to make soonish.
Here's an example HUD that shows a single player carrying more than one weapon (switchable with Q/E or shoulder buttons):
The basic idea is to add an animation to INV_ITEM similar to the ones that exist now for arcade weapons, but to allow adding any inventory item to the hud, including things like potions that are activated with an alternative button, or temporary pickups like the score multiplier.
The items only have limited information about how they are to be displayed up top -- the layout happens mostly automatically. But certain common item meanings (score, life, player head) are tagged as such to help make a sensible layout.
The layout is performed in single player by separating elements into up to 3 groups and aligning then left, then right then center. Multiplayer layout is similar, but elements are squashed together and layed out per-player.
The goal here is to provide a simple way to make inventories for common genres, without requiring lua scripting or a lot of work doing layouts that work both in 1P & 2P. Later on, fancy HUD requirements can be taken care of in Lua scripts (more on that shortly!).
So, the steps to make a custom HUD will be:
- Add (or alias) any inventory items (INV ITEM) that the player should start with. // e.g. start with a bow and 8 arrows
- Add animations to inventory items that should be shown in the HUD
- Tag some inventory items as having a special meaning: score, lives
It will still be possible to use the old arcade HUD that you're all familiar with, but not to mix-and-match the two systems.
So, here's the question -- are there any simple HUDS you'd like to use that don't seem to work with a scheme like this?
Here are some examples that I think will be ok:
Doom: Score, life, current weapon & ammo
Bomberman, Bloot: Player heads with points won in a single row
RPG: armour & weapon, MP, HP, Gold
Adventure: List of collected objects
Scrolly Shooter: lives, score, panic bombs // lives logic not yet implemented
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just why is alt gr + Q a thing? this command doesn't even makes sense! (just so you know alt gr + Q in my pc is /)
why is that pressing those buttons automatically quits voxatron without even asking you if you want to quit?????
thats mean!
really mean!
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CREPPER CARTRIDGE EXPERIMENTAL!
This is just a Minecraft Creeper, which can explode. To explode yourself, pick up the grenade, and then press X, 3, 4 or 5 times, and the creeper will explode!
You can use the crepper in any cartridge you want.
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Got 2 new logitech controllers, because you guys been making multyplayer games...
So this is my colab 3 player game engine
Please fell free to re-mix :)
updated: added room 4
tweak a game a bit, all doors are one way now.
room 3 has a bit wider platform in the beginning so there is less of a chance to fall in to lava from the get go.
04/1/15
added room 5
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Hello there! recently I came to realize that the restart system needs improvement.
first of all, the time to restart a level take too long, I can't restart right after I died after pressing X, I either have to go to the menu or wait 2 seconds
and when I restart the checkpoint, the time spent up to there simply disappears, and so does the restar counting, it makes it terrible for any speedrunner to go trough a cartridge that not only punishes the death with a 2 seconds delay but also does not count time properly nor the restarts.
plase fix this zep, or at least allow us to custommize our restarts.
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This was mainly a test to see if I can change the thumbnail for the little picture.
This level has nothing in it.
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Zep what is wrong with this cartridge:
[see below]
Nevermind, I was trying to post a valentines game along with Point Crash 2.0 but the Valentines game caused lexaloffle to completely crash on my internet, and as I just tried to submit it again, I will probably be disappearing again.
I can't post it in fear it might cause problems to the website, but if you know of this problem from past experiences I would like an explaination.
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IT IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!
Sorry about posting it about half a month after the deadline of February. I was for some reason not allowed to access the BBS from any computer using my internet device. It looks like I finally have access. That is a great thing!!. Point Crash 2.0 was completed by February 14th. (look at post: "Messed up Cartridge" for more info)
The game supports any voxatron version that supports 0.3+
+2 Player Game
+12 Characters
+20 Maps to play on (I got lazy on some of them sorry)
NOTE: Select characters by touching a floating box next to the characters icon. DO NOT select more than one character at a time this will cause animation and sound errors.
Hope you enjoy playing :D took around 90+ hours of work.
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Simple crossy road "engine", not completed...
Please re-mix :)
added trees, water, lily pads
added floating tree platforms
I guess this is as good as it gets, I have a bit of trouble with cars sometime they get destroyed right after they been emitted, Specially longer one, so I am guessing it's gonna get even worth with Trucks and Trains.
Suggestions are welcome. :)
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The question's in the title. I looked around in the editor, but I couldn't find the deathexplosion's models. It'd be preferable it there was a way to change it without importing a character, but if it's not possible that way, then I won't mind importing a character.
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This is another way of making a custom character fly.
Original scripting and art by "Mouser" I modify it, so that character can shoot with X while descend with C.
Please feel free to remix :)
thx Mouser
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Hi I redeemed my humble bundle key which showed the games I could download. I then signed up with this username and my humble bundle email address and when I go to games there is no download just "try the demo"
Did I do something wrong?
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This is one of the ways to make a player character that can fly
It also can use a weapon :)
Please feel free to re-mix
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