Elysian Shadows

Hey guys.

Dunno if you would be interested in this but I am planning on making a 2D platformer this summer and am going to document my progress on Youtube. I'll be posting a video hopefully once every week since I have nothing but time at the moment. I hope to be able to share code and insight into how I solved different problems that I come up against etc.. The name comes from the fact that every time I am trying to implement something I seem to always ask myself 'how did mario do it'

So yeah, subscribe if you're interested and if you're not then no worries

I'll try and get the first episode up tomorrow just showing the base ~700 lines that I have so far and then I'll see where I go from there.

Thanks


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Cool, I will certainly follow this.

That sounds really cool. I'll be following to as well.

I subscribed

Thanks a million guys

Here's the first video. Nothing major. Just setting a starting point. Future vids will be more indepth

- Cheers

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SD021 wrote:Thanks a million guys

Here's the first video. Nothing major. Just setting a starting point. Future vids will be more indepth

- Cheers

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That looks cool! I like the programmer graphics. Keep up the good work!

300,000 particles?!?!

dandymcgee wrote:300,000 particles?!?!

if it's just points with random velocities, then 300,000 seems feasible to me.

Well how does he display them without being slow? If this is OpenGL, is he using GL_POINT?

Yeah it does get very slow at the upper limit. I can maintain a good framerate up to 100,000. The video is somewhere between 10000-50000 iirc. I will have no use for more than 10000 anyway so it makes no difference xD

Awesome dude keep us updated :D

Next instalment is live Sorry for the delay. Collision can be a bitch to debug It's starting to actually look like a platformer now . Next will probably do powerups/pickups and some level loading.


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Showing off and giving tips for Collision Detection and Response which I've been working on over the past few days. Enjoy!

SD021 wrote:Next instalment is live Sorry for the delay. Collision can be a bitch to debug It's starting to actually look like a platformer now . Next will probably do powerups/pickups and some level loading.


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Showing off and giving tips for Collision Detection and Response which I've been working on over the past few days. Enjoy!

looks nice, but why do you have an Initialize function instead of a constructor?

Usually I prefer to use an Initialize function as it makes testing a little bit easier since you can call it more than once if needs be. It's not really a big deal though. Just personal preference.

SD021 wrote:Usually I prefer to use an Initialize function as it makes testing a little bit easier since you can call it more than once if needs be. It's not really a big deal though. Just personal preference.

Same thing with constructors: