Looks Awesome...!

Working on a tutorial based on the one Unity has :the space shooter I was like hey i can do that with 3DGS as well so no 2D scroller but using real 3D models and all

it's almost done and will be there for download soon

it will contain :

- Window size
- Scrolling background
- Player movement
- Blasting astroids and enemies
- Score
- Random wave of astroids and enemies
- Particle ship engine flames
- Explosions/animates sprites + FX
- Restart game
- Show sign at borders space
- Enemy fire

When game is done full documentation will come with it so it can
be easy used as a tempplate for scrolling shooter games





clip can be seen here : https://youtu.be/55pxGvQXEsw

@^: nice little shooter game

I've made some improvements to my font-to-bmap script featuring colors now:


It only supports bmap-fonts, I had to hardcode the width for all 256 characters and I think I've written the worst if-comparison of my life but somehow it works.

However, although Alibaba showed me a workaround on how to create sprites from bmaps I'm still having scale problems with these sprites in my interface.
..so I'm thinking about switching to a draw_quad-base approach.

Edit: I just managed to fix the scaling problem

Looks awesome!
Never use draw_ commands, they make the engine even slower then it is already.

Thanks for the advice

(But im actually using draw_quad as a gpu-based approach to draw the text into a bmap... still better than bmap_blit lol)

Using draw_... commands is perfectly fine (I use them all the time). They, as well as regular true type fonts, used to be super slow in the past but aren't that slow anymore.

I like the lighting and the bloom in your screenshots!

I also use 'draw_' commands a lot, but not every frame. I usually draw bitmaps to show every frame.

Guys, Ive used the draw_text command and draw_quad command for my playerlist, and the FPS for arround 32 players suddenly gone down from 60 to 20.
I replaced them with a normal TEXT object and there was no FPS decrease at all.

Well, thanks for the info, chaos but since I'm using draw_quad calls only once (when creating a text-bmap) it shouldn't be a big deal.

Another update:


pathfinding and the first type of enemies: deadly, vicious potatos D:

[Edit] Also, not seen in the screenshot:
Better text handling with optional custom color palette, wordwrap and some vertex position fixes.

([Edit2] And yes, I am totally aware that the potato texture looks like poop)

Still trying to finish this little bit oversized AckCon project...