3D Side Scrolling Run N Gun

Gowydot

Progress : Just showing some updates

Fine tuned player movements
Now have save point at half way when continuing.
My CPUparticles fire wouldn't show up when shooting so I've been spending 2 days 2 nights trying to fix the code, just to realize I instanced it on a marker3D node with its visible OFF. 😫

Still need to fix laser, I'm using PhysicsRayQueryParameters3D but tested on the web really slow down the game. Not sure how to optimize it yet.

kuligs2

Gowydot whya re people obsessed with web exports? who is playing games in browsers these days - excluding ipad babies.

Looks good, i like that wall climb. How did you do that?

Gowydot

kuligs2
I have no experience exporting mobile game and I don't want to hassle non-techies to run .exe so It's more of less fuss to get my game up to public. I also figured if I could make a lowest-setting game and make it run for the web then the game could only be improved from here right 😆

Looks good, i like that wall climb. How did you do that?

Pretty easy actually. I have a state.Ladder and in that state I disabled gravity and make velocity.x = 0. I have two raycasts so if they hit ladder's area3D the player change to Ladder state. I'm using two because I planned for the Ledge state if one is in the area3d and one is not.

I'm thinking though to just change from using raycast to area3D as I find using area3D is more reliable. (I am using area3D at the head for rail-hanging detection.)

What I haven't decide is how to go down / get off the ladder at the top gracefully LOL right now I just use jump to get off. Maybe I'll just hard code player's position to teleport him to the top.

kuligs2

Gowydot so your ladders are hardcoded/made, its not like you place a wall and then character decides that its "ladderable"...

Yeah, this way i figured, but this makes level editing more tedious..

Would be nice if character would somehow calculate which walls could become ladders if some threshhold was met.

Maybe if walls are basic meshes you could get aabb() and get the height of that wall and if its like higher than some value then character could go into ladder state?

Gowydot

kuligs2

Any wall could be ladder if I just add to the group "ladder". But currently it's not really tedious to build levels since I they are only 5 with few ladders here and there. I'm keeping this simple as a small arcade-style mindless shooter.

Gowydot

Quick update: Weapon items

kuligs2

Gowydot lol that guy creeping up to you at the last minute 😃

kuligs2

Have you tried experimenting with different camera angles? Like now its pointing straight, what if you pull it up a bit and rotate down a bit, so that you look a little from above?

Or maybe, not sure how your levels are constructed, but lets say if your char is at the upper bound of the level then camera would not follow the character but stay lets say a bit lower looking up, and same would be if the character got to the bottom bounds the camera would be looking down.. but of you are in the middle of the level then camera would follow straight on like it does now.

Gowydot

kuligs2
Yes I already have that settings built in. I can script the camera to zoom out or set it above/below/left/right of player. Although I'm not sure if I'm gonna implement that kind of level for this game just yet because I bet it will come with extra scripting logic shenanigans that I don't need right now LOL. ( I had to re-do my flame-thrower shooting logic because the recently introduced weapon item kinda messed it up 😫 )

Gowydot

Quick update: Weapon Upgrade

Originally I wasn't gonna have this feature but since it uses similar setup with weapon item then why not.

Gowydot

Update: Weapon Visuals

5 Weapon types:
Normal > Rapid : Higher rate of fire
Spread > Rapid Spread : Higher rate of fire
Flame > Super Flame : Larger hit area
Laser > Super Laser : Larger hit area & Longer Laser time
Homing Missile > Rapid Homing Missile : Higher rate of fire

I think I might change laser color, right now just looks like shooting out water LOL

Gowydot

Nothing much just been learning create lowpoly assets with Blender, Gimp, Krita.

Encountered many opensource software anti-intuitions frustration 😩

kuligs2

Gowydot What do you mean anti-intuitions? If opensource is all you know, its pretty intuitive 😃

Gowydot

Update: Boss level 1 Defense Wall

So I should've been creating assets instead of updating this boss but I felt like I need to polish it to prevent some loopholes.

The wall will attack you with light bullets while you're trying to destroy the rockfaces. (to prevent player from not doing anything)
After all rockfaces are destroyed, each section will start its attack rotation at random time.
The orbs will turn red if player couldn't defeat them on time, indicating they will start attacking with a lock-on laser which kills player instantly. (to prevent player from fighting too long)
When all orbs are destroy the sections will explode.

I use tween as a main driver for this mechanism. The orbs and bullets are now just billboard sprite3Ds.

Gowydot

UPDATE : Level Visuals

Creating level is harder than I thought. Not from the technical side but creative side (what to add, how to place them..etc). Also you can get carried away on little details, trying to make it "look good" while forgetting the big picture.

I went off track on learning to create procedural textures on Blender, trying to make good, realistic-ish texture. This stalls my game progress so I realized I gotta keep it simple and grounded.

I now will start doing all the levels first by prototyping objects with simple color shadings and gradually adding more details and textures at later time.

There a few bugs I need to take care of as well:

The player uses last is_on_floor position for respawning position. When he dies dropping down from the disappearing platform he will respawn but the platform is no longer there so he has means to go forward.
Boss orbs somehow can be shot while they are hidden and deactivated.
Player's Blob shadow position.

Moving forwards, there are 5 levels planned.

Mountain
Factory
Underground sewer
Infected Headquarter
Lair

Gowydot

QUICK UPDATE : Add underwater count-down.

Count-down timer when underwater (when player is crawling in the water area). Reset when come up (for air), dies when time runs out.

« Previous Page