YagerX's Blog

Long time since my last post but I’ve been busy working on shooting. I still need to create a system to automatically name the bodies with arrays but I’ve been sidetracked by reorganising my code in to a propper package?
Anyway that’s not what this post is about. This is all about the features that I will implement into the Resonance Engine (The engine thats gonna be based on Helljump, basically a cleaned up version).

Features:

• Vehicles
• Motion Blur
• Easy, customisable player properties
• AI
• Fire!?!?
• Multiple weapons with easily customisable properties
• Cinematics
• I/O customisation
• Easilly skinnable
• Drag’n’ Drop Level creator?
• Camera filters
• Replay

All that in FLASH…well it might take me a while… But look for it in the distant future!

I’ve finally perfected jumping!
As silly as it sounds jumping was very hard to implement.
The main problem was limiting jumping on surfaces that weren’t steeper than 45 degrees.
And since Box2d’s ContactPoints took 2 shapes(I still don’t know how they are assigned) this made filtering the collisions very difficult.
I had to find out which shape in the collision events were my character, then I had to find out at what angle the “ground” was to my character through trig. After thorough testing I found out that when my shape was “shape 1″ the angles came out at 0 to 180, when my character was shape 2 angles came of at 0 to -180.
Then a small if statement fixed it.

Now that Jumping is finished I’m porting shooting to Box2D from APE, once that’s done i’ll be able to put up a demo with the “engine” mostly done.

Ps. I’m always looking for people to help!