Shoxidizer [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]

Changing Rooms With Lua?

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:13:11 UTC

Is there a way to load another room using Lua scripts easily? I figure I could have a script that spawns/moves an exit directly to the player, but that seems like a lot of work for something that might not work right. There are of course ways to load the actors needed for the next level, but I would like to be able to use the room editor. Thank you for any help.

Polar Camera(with city)

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 03:57:12 UTC

Controls:
Forward/Backward to move
Left/Right to turn
z+x at the same time to reset position

This is just a demonstration of a way to move the have the camera stay fixed to a character while the environment moves around it.

Polar Camera

by Shoxidizer

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There are a few issues with this implementation. Y co-ords have to be subtracted instead of added, this arose because I imagined forwards being positive and could not fix this easily by the time I realized what I did. Also, all horizontal surfaces become full of holes at any non-cardinal direction. Collisions also suffer from issues and it is possible to glitch entirely through a wall and become stuck (the reason there is a reset position option).

Currently, everything must be affixed to a grid system as attempting to render anything more than slightly out of sight the screen results in severe graphical errors. It should be possible to create a system using distance from the center of view, but I imagine it would become draining to do that for a large number of entities. Anything large enough to extend from the center of view to the glitch distance is well beyond what this is capable of.

Key Puzzle Demo

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:37:36 UTC

KeyPuzzleDemo0.1

by Shoxidizer

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This is a short puzzle game based off of another puzzle game I saw, SPAB. The player's inputs affect the world as well as the character. I came up with some messy ways to make it work and would redo a lot of it if I made a more complete version.

If I do expand on this idea I see two ways to with it. Either a sort of action-puzzle game with fighting enemies and smoother movement, or a more complex puzzle game with much more responding environmental parts and maybe more rigid movement.