[TeeUniverse] Devlog (Page 8 of 12)

@necropotame not dependency.... Anyway, we don't have to use github, just any other repo works the same

I was wondering if you wanted a main menu image for the assets editor? I am thinking maybe blueprints of the shotgun or something. What do you think? Anyone got a better idea?

I will create some things and get back to you.

Very nice! I will integrate it, thanks a lot
If you select an internal image for a sprite, does it crash ?

Ok, I found how to reproduce it. I will fix it for the next "beta release". A workaround consists to add the image and then set the grid size of this image to at least 1x1. Then you can use it with sprites.

I've never notice this before I will add it.

Yeah, it was just a bug. It's now fixed on my machine (it's impossible to set grid size less than 1), but I will commit it when bone animations are ready. Here is a small preview of the skeleton of a tee: one for each foot, one for the body and one for the eyes (attached to the body). Hands are still missing

b.t.w. android272, if you can make a better "dummy" skin than mine, it could be great This dummy skin will be the default skin of a tee skeleton in the assets editor (but not available ingame). You can arrange each part of the body like in this image, if you are interested:

I've also added new type of assets packages. Initially, a asset could be internal (default assets of the game, like game.png) or external (the one send by the server). Now, an assets can also came from skins and maps.
For skins, all .png and .assets will be loaded in the skins directory. If the file is an image, it will be converted into sprites and skeleton skin automatically. If not, assets will be simply loaded. So skins can contains more than just images, like animations or new extensions of the skeleton (for hats, hairs, ...).
For maps, I think I will replace the .map file by a .assets file. It means that a map will be just a list of assets. Of course, layers and quads will be a type of asset, but the map could also define particles effects, sprites, skeletal animations, ... In addition, the server could send a "DrawSprite" signal to the client with the ID of a sprite defined in the map, not in the mod. That way, the graphics needed by the mod can be adapted to each map (like a boss different for each map, or a weapon skin). The consequence of this is that the Map Editor should be merged with the Assets Editor. An option to save the map into old format will be provided, in order for the server to send the appropriate map to each client.
What do you think about that ? Is it too much ?

This part is not editable for now (not implemented yet)

Animations is not related to sprite. An animation is just how something move. It could be an sprite, a text, it depends of how it used. This is why I've added an arrow, to represent the motion made by the animation.

A tee animation is a set of animation that is used to compute the position of each part. It's true that you must go back to each animation to create a true tee animation. Keep in mind that if you click on the "pen" icon of an asset, the editor control the new selected asset, but the view still display the previous one. So you can edit an animation while viewing a tee animation. b.t.w., all of this stuff while be deleted and replaced by skeletal animation which will be much more easer to edit.

This will be improved also, using skeletal animation.

You should create a .asset file using the editor to create an new skin. The image based version is here just to maintain compatibility with vanilla skins. I will add also a tw06 folder to maintain compatibility with 0.6 skins.

I'm not sure yet if it's the best solution But it's more "longterm" anyway.

Tee animation are additive, so if you set some parts to "none", other animations (idle, walk, inair) will be used instead. About timing, yes each time you click "fire", the animation will be reset to 0.

Yes

It's possible, but you need to define a list of sprites for that (which is impossible from the editor, right now). This is exactly how muzzles are done.
Don't hesitate to post GIF of what you did

I just thought of this.  could you make it so that when you are reloading a weapon that a ninja timer counts down how long until you are able to shoot it again?  I don't know how this would look for the pistol, but I think that the pistol should have clips and not load individual bullets that is how the shot gun should work.

Personally i'd prefer rgba, but I think it's fine as it is right now, where you can pick which color chooser to usd

It could be a particular type of asset. The game/mod/map could define particular colors which can be used by others assets. If you change the color in the palette, all assets that use this color will be automatically updated. Team colors should be defined like this. I will add an option to import .gpl palettes directly.

I postpone the discussion about this to later, because the whole HUD system must be rewritten to be fully customizable. But I guess we can use the skeletal animation for this and create rotation+fading effect on HUD elements, for example.