Cracking on for easter , game now released

[BlinkOk]

mick,
let me know if kevin's stuff does or doesn't help you ok.
the point is; if you can make the transparent colour the same colour as the first pixel on an image by images basis then i can make the graphics a lot smoother.

[micky4fun]

Hi Kevin and BlinkOk

well i told you im not that great , so sorry i aint got a clue whats happening with Kevins code , but thanks for taking the time to do and post , i will after this game try and work out how to load and use frame sheets , just cant suss it out at mo , so doing it frame by frame by loading seperate images.

i did quite a bit tonight got most the images loaded now , got to redo and suss out some code so still plenty to do , but times run out tonight so will carry on tomorrow evening

heres a snip of where i am at mo

thanks mick :)

[BlinkOk]

awesome mick. looks great.
i'm not so interested in using animation sheets.
i am more interested in making the top left pixel of an image the transparency colour.

haha. i think that code is meant to make the first pixel the transparency colour! i don't understand it either and it wont compile with my version of pb (v1.64)

this is the wind animation. you could use it accross all screens (splash, gameplay, success and fail). i created a directory in the gameplay directory call wind and copied the files there.

Download Wind Animation


Fail screen (fail.png in the splash directory)

[micky4fun]

hi BlinkOk ,

download new images , thanks ,
will try to do somemore dinner time at work , as i dont have a lot of time at home tonight but will do some
if i get stuck ile give you both a shout , but so far so good

thanks
mick :)

[BlinkOk]

ok. i'm going away for the weekend so i wont be around for a couple days. cya then

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

ive been at it longer than i sould tonight , going around in circles trying to put these images into my code , so i am going to start from scatch now , so will start again tomorrow evening hopefully
i dont think im exprience enough and my code aint that well laid out so its going back to the drawing board i think , see how it goes from there

ile give a progress report later tomorrow

mick :)

[BlinkOk]

no problem mate. i got all the time in the world.
i find if i just plan it out on paper with lists, arrows and little notes (kinna like pseudo code) then writing it becomes easier.
i'll check back on monday my time. cya then

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

well after a nice rest got back to work on this today and managed to recue my orignal code , as you know i do get things going with more luck than judgement , and it was the new bigger hammers and with so many images that mucked it up for me and a couple of other things , my collision code was not good enough so had to do some completley differently , still lots to do
last night was a nightmare , think my brain went , things just did not click ,, haha

back soon
mick :)

[BlinkOk]

hey mick,
i'm back and it looks like we're still moving forward, which is great. let me know if you need anything

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk and all

ok got some more done today , dont know if i sould have just started again a couple of days ago , as its all over the shop , but thats me , haha

ok BlinkOk nearly done ish , heres a demo of where i am in game , i think i need get ready images and times up images , darker egg images for back row of eggs if you think it needs it ,
also the crack egg animation looks wrong as it has big gaps in egg starting to crack but once cracked the crack in thin

i have left your images as they were i think , apart from the blue hammer images still and whack i slightly changed them with more solid outline see what you think

clock needs a better hand i think , something like micky mouse type hand like arrow one end and round hollow circle other end , also a credit screen but sort that out at end

I have not done wind yet , will try that later near end of game

think thats it for now
hope i aint let you down to much

also think im goner use 5 digit score as i have already scored 8256
and also again , shadows on hammers i have done as if there was a light over to one side of room , shadows get slightly bigger with rotatesprite

mick :)
download demo
http://www.zshare.net/download/571013720eb66d4a/

[BlinkOk]

hey that's lookin pretty cool mick! nice work and i like you suggs.
i fixed the egg images and did a pointing hand (they're attached)
with the numbers try this;
make each number only 80% of the width of the previous number to the right.
so if the first number is at x position zero and it's width is 10 pixels then place the next number at position 8. 8 being 80% of 10.
let me know if you need anything else ok
thanks

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

thanks for new images , going to put them into game tonight , see how it goes , already done 5 didgets for score and moved the nearer , that looks better , going to do rest of hammers wind etc ,
sould be ready in a few days , if you can do a credit screen for me , with my name as program writer , playbasic as program used and credits for youself for images and any websites info you want to put in as well
i will then put final version up and let you see if any minor changes are needed.

back soonish
mick :)

[micky4fun]

Hi BlinkOk

did a little more tonight , code tidy up , sprites ect , still got wind to do yet , i could do with the following if possible , play again image for oops screen thus saving going back to title screen , get ready image , time is up image , and new clock hand , credit screen if any or all is possible , thanks

got to get an early night tonight , so back tomorrow

thanks
mick :)

[BlinkOk]

ok i think i got em all;
there are two again images (just like the play images so you can join them together)
get ready.png
time up.png
credits.png

i tried the hand with the line and circle but it didn't look so hot.
i've added a point.png image which has a dot at the point where you should rotate it.
if this is too difficult then let me know and i'll see if i can come up with something else

all images are in the hud directory except for credits.png which is in the splash directory.

[kevin]

 Just about all of the setup code

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LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0001.png",201
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0002.png",202
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0003.png",203
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0004.png",204
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0005.png",205
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0006.png",206
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0007.png",207
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0008.png",208
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0009.png",209
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0010.png",210
LoadfxImage CurrentDir$()+"gfx\birds\blue\chick0011.png",211

etc etc etc


could be replaced with this. 

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// the filename template of the filename
Filename$ ="chick####.png"

// the location of the files
Path$ =" INSERT PATH HERE \dont chicken out8\gfx\birds\"


// Load ANimation into sequential image numbers
LoadFrames(path$+"blue\",Filename$,1000)
LoadFrames(path$+"cyan\",Filename$,1100)
LoadFrames(path$+"red\",Filename$,1200)






Function LoadFrames(path$,Filename$,IMageIndex)
// crude # chr count
for lp=1 to Len(filename$)
inc  DigitsLength,mid$(filename$,lp,1)="#"
next
Hash$=Make$("#",DigitsLength)

For lp=1 to 1000
f$=replace$(filename$,Hash$,digits$(lp,DigitsLength),1,false,false)
file$=Path$+f$
if FileExist(file$)
LoadFXImage File$,ImageIndex
rendertoimage ImageIndex
ImageMaskCOlour ImageIndex,Point(0,0)
inc ImageIndex
inc framecount
else
exit
endif
next
rendertoscreen
EndFunction FrameCount