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NineByNine7 years ago

Okay so another update: No pictures of progress just yet I'm afraid.

I finally built a background out of tiles and have worked out scrolling the level, and I've done some preliminary work on enemy waves, designed a new enemy, and have been getting code together for them to shoot at me too :D Gonna be working on the getting damaged code and also trying to work out how to make a sprite "flash" when its hit and damaged. this was giving me some trouble until like 2am last night so I called it a night, and I would have done more work today but I got home from work SUPER late, so... tomorrow will be coding day :)

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Komrade_Konrad7 years ago

I don't know about the new GameMaker version, but in the old ones, the elaborate way to do the "flash" on hit was to write a shader for it, but that can be a nightmare in and of itself. The simpler but brute force method is probably to add a damaged animation or create a second object on top to create the flashing effect. Good luck!

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NineByNine7 years ago

Using a sprite animation frame is a neat idea but awkward from the point of view of wanting the sprites possibly to animate in the future. Shaders seem to be the "simplest" way of doing it but this would also require me to learn OpenGL's own scripting language and uh...

yeah that is...that is a challenge I am entirely unprepared for. I am definately having a second object on top that's solid white but getting it to actually flash on and off correctly is being nightmarish at the moment. ^^;

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