[TeeUniverse] Devlog (Page 5 of 12)

What's about a way to connect your players to other servers? Like BungeeCoord in Minecraft.

I've updated TargetMod. Now, each client plays in a separated world and the best score is displayed in the server name. There is also different type of target. Some of them need to be hit by a specific weapon.

For the next update, I want to remove randomness, so each run will be the same and you can learn from your mistakes. I will also add a ghost to show how the best run has been done. It will be very competitive

PS: Congratulation, Neox, you just explode my personal record of 42 ^^

@necropotame
Awesome work so far!
And looking at the current state of your project and the features you are still planing to implement, it will probably get a huge player base.

It would definitely be fun to start modding again

Small bug fix on TargetMod: the best score is now property saved. I've also added an indicator to find the nearest target and an indicator to show the score like nameplates. These two indicators are made using CModAPI_NetObject_SpriteCharacter and CModAPI_NetObject_TextCharacter, implemented by killa. Since they are attached to the player, the predicted position is no more laggy. You can try it yourself using the last version on GitHub

Here, is screenshot of the game using ModAPI, and usiong vanilla 0.7 client:

Your are right. But since ModAPI is in active development, I postpone this for a little later (but I promise, I will do it !)

New update for TargetMod: Each run use the same seed and you run against the ghost of the leader

Devlog: I've implemented the custom weapon system for the client side. Now, all weapons use the same weapon description and there is not more condition like "if Weapon == NINJA, do something special". The only missing part concerns the particle effect associated to ninja, but I will add it later.

This step was long because I recode a lot of stuff in vanilla client, in particular tee animations and tee drawing. But this will offer a lot of possibilities. I think that at the end, I will remove all vanilla sprites and animations and replace it by a simple .mod file that contains everything (.mod file should be renamed .cldata, maybe). It means that it will be harder to change the game.png file, but in same time, you will be able to change sprites, animations and weapons (just graphics) on your client without touching the source code.

Now the big drawbacks is that it become complicated to create a new weapon. For the gun, you need to create an animation for recoil, an animation for hand and an animation for gun muzzle. It's hard to create an animation because you must change x,y positions and angle in your source code, compile, test it, and then do it again, and again, .... You can of course copy-past the code for any weapons and just change the sprite, but it would be sad to don't take advantages of all possibilities offered by such flexible system. So I've decided to implemented a new entry in Teeworld menu called "Mod editor" or something like that. In this editor, you will be able to create a .mod file with an adapted interface. I hope that such editor will motivate the community to create some kind of database in which modders can take elements.

No, they are just random. But we can think about something like that, why not.

I need some limits about what ModAPI can do From now, I've kept the same structure than vanilla, but with more abstraction. Then, I will add more feature from this base. So animations are right now just a list of frames with X, Y, angles and opacity for each "part" of the tee. Implementing something based on bones is much more complicated (but possible) and not needed to animate a simple tee. So for now, I will stay with the simple approach. However, I really want to offer a good interface for animation in the Mod Editor, and I guess you can give me feedback because I've no experience in this domain

Here, some screenshots of the first version of the editor :

Edit: new version, with interface for animation

The "Mod Editor" is the tool to create the .mod file send by the ModAPI server to the ModAPI client. You can define sprites, animations, tee animations, weapons, particlues effetcs, ... It's true that sprites are used for weapons, but they can also be used directly by the server like in TargetMod

It's like the map editor, so everyone can play with it without doing anything.

Nice!

Your image doesn't work

I understand your idea. The problem is that you need to switch between assets to create something. If you want to create a weapon, you have to add an image, define a sprite for muzzle and for the gun, then create an animation for each sprite, plus an animation for the hand. Then, you must create a tee animation that contains the animation of the hand. Finally, you must create a attach with two layers, one for the muzzle and one for the gun. Doing all of this in separated tabs will be painful.

An attach is composed of elements (kind of layers). Muzzles and gun are elements of an attach, but you can also add more elements and decide of the order (over or under hands, tee, ...). That way, you can create double guns, reload animations, ...

This part is not related to assets, but to mods. You need C++ for that because it's server sided. We could imagine some script system or editor for that, but I don't want to go into that right now.