High quality terrain/tile transitions
Filed under: Game Maker
A few nights ago a magical fairy came to me in my dreams and told me, ‘all those executables which you lost the editables to, they’re actually editables!’ I thought the fairy was full of shit but what do you know, the next morning I looked in my GM folder and lo and behold, there appeared editables for things I lost the source to!
In celebration, here is the editable to something really neat I wrote a while ago. It’s a ridiculously fast (for what it does) terrain renderer which supports spec highlights and I would bet, beats using tiles on occassion. It’s an extension of my metaballs rendering concept applied across any number of tile layers without involving a second surface.
It’s just a proof of concept for an idea I never got to finish and polish, but hey so is a lot of other stuff I put here. Once again, look, learn, use. Or, attempt to blindly integrate it in your game and hope for the best.
Oh by the way. It was written back in gm6, and gm6 had a stupid bug to do with surfaces, which I had to cheat around. In gm7 it seems to have been dealt with so my workaround actually causes the inverse of the bug to happen. So if you’re using it in gm7, open the startup script and change the values of fx and fy to 1.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 4:01 am
Wow, spectacular and fast too.
I may not be up to date with programming lingo but I’m quite sure that you could have used a better word for “frames molested”.
Good luck with your ¿HSC?
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:49 am
I can’t think of a better word than “frames molested,” personally.
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:11 am
I do all that for him, and then when I try to take his tooth, he puts me in a jar!
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:23 am
Keep away from my teeth, bitch.
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Yeah…well…I shat in your honey!
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:07 am
There’s only a handful who know about my honey. It’s only a question of time before I know where you’re located and nuke you, mythological whore.
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:26 am
Man, I wan’t some of whatever drugs your smoking, cause mine don’t do that shit. Nice example BTW.
October 23rd, 2007 at 6:01 am
Ha!! When you weren’t looking, I hid up your ass (plenty of room, must have been pre-stretched…). Nuke that bitch!
October 24th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Fucking 4Channers.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
xygthop3 hit the nail on the head with the comment about the drugs. We want some.
October 24th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Wow, Fairy. Interesting execution of the “anal sex” insult. However, I can see how that would backfire.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:46 am
“I can see how that would backfire”
Do I detect a pun?
November 13th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
very cool I don’t know what i’ll do with it though