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Aniraster1 year ago(+1)

that attack was pretty super, magical and bloodthirsty and it was also pretty flying sword, but i didn't see much duper :(

i feel like the sword had too wide of a hitbox when colliding with the mirrors, my brain tells me "it'll be based off of the tip of the sword" but since the hitbox is wider (i assume), diagonal mirrors get hit higher than i intended for them to get hit. Like, the bounce location is based off of the corner of the collision, when my brain thinks it should be  bounced from where the sword tip is, if that makes sense.

i think those little fellas deserved it frankly, 👍

also based fellow firefox user

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Aniraster1 year ago(+1)

drew a little sketch of what i was trying to say (ignore my very bad handwriting)

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Imre Barta1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks for the input and the drawing too!

Yeah, the bouncing is wack. Originally the idea was, just like in your drawing, where the tip of the sword hits the mirror, the center of the sword will be placed there as it goes on its merry way, effectively being predictable and nice and rainbows and everything, but I couldn't make it, the mirror bounce was enough of a headache to make, took a lot of time as well, mainly because it wasnt just a simple "rotate the vector 90 degrees" as I'd hoped for, so when the actual mirror bouncing needed to be changed, and it was all buggy, I just threw my hands in the air as I was already running out of time. Another option that was on the table before this free-positioning of the mirror is having a grid based system. Which would have ALSO solved this issue, but having never used tilemaps before, in the interest of time this was the best I managed to do.

Sure, they deserved it.... absolutely. No question about that.


edit: Also the current implementation DID use a big box collider like the one you drew, which was absolutely horrible, the current one used a small sliver of a capsule collider, which as you saw still far from perfect. Thinking about it now a simple raycast may have been better but oh well

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Aniraster1 year ago(+1)

who can say what the best way is, game making just be wack like that

if you dont already know about them, the Vector2 (and Vector3) .rotated method may be good to know for future games

before i learned about those, rotating a vector was like 3 (very long) lines of code and a stinkin load of trigonometry, but with them its just "Vector2(10,0).rotated(45)"

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Imre Barta1 year ago(+1)

Yeah I know about those (after scuffly making it of course) But apart from that the main issue wasn't the rotation part, it was when to rotate and in which direction, but thanks for the tip!

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