Everything is a placeholder. Only the motion is for wheel.
Jump & Spin.
From left to right, a lap to the chequered start/finish line. Hit the ceiling and gravity reverses, and the spin causes the opposite direction of travel.
I can't figure out how to embed the above video, so a screenshot to entice you to click on the above link...
Performance Tips:
Put everything you don't need interacting with your main characters on different layers. Just do it. The performance gains are real.
Make sure no images are stretched beyond 2048 pixels in any one dimension.
Crop your images as tightly as possible in image editor to get rid of as much extraneous Alpha pixels as possible
Use partial opacity sparingly, particularly on big images
Try to make everything you can think of a spawned item. When in doubt, spawn and destroy the original
Recycle particle systems by moving them to where you need them and restarting them instead of creating new ones
Edit sounds in audio editor so there's absolutely no clipping. OpenAL/cocos2D tries to reduce clipping and does so in a very costly manner
Don't be tempted to use the pitch change. It seems to be a live change and exasperates the clipping performance issue above. Record uniquely pitched sounds instead, and pick and play the ones you need
Preplay your sounds, with silent volume if need be, so they're cached before they need to be played. I don't know why this works, but it seems to make a big difference. I thought we were beyond the time in history when we needed to do things like this for audio on iOS.
Use Exponential eases on Colour changes with caution. They're costly. If at all possible, use Linear "eases". For colour changes, they're noticeably cheaper than others.
Push everything you need to store into central arrays. Use them as global storage. Faster and lighter and more reliable than Value and Box Containers.
Make everything you can into a Background image (not physics and not static/walls). Way less physics checking. If you can do this with things and not need to worry about them again, then you know these things are also suited to being put on another layer. So do that and forget about them.
Use broadcast and receive for every single thing you can think of. All the time. This way you can centralise everything and find anything and everything you need in little managers. Animation manager, Sprite Manager, Sound Manager, Creation Manager, etc.
Don't update labels frequently. They are unbelievably slow at any size that looks good.
Every bullet is fired from an anchor point of 100%, 100%, or top right, regardless of the rotation of the object.
ie it's not even listening to the orientation of the object, as it should be. So even in the sense it has, it's broken.
In terms of being inoperative: it doesn't matter what values are put into the anchor point to shoot from, they're disregarded.
If the Time Scale is set to 1/4 of normal time, the Move To Object Behaviour is only being updated every 4th frame.
@RobinsonX trust your own judgement. You'll know where and what to polish, and how and why to publish, and when you're onto something worthy of involving yourself in production completion. Until then, iterate, experiment and meander. Enjoy your increasing capacity for creativity through the very natural processes of discovery and discernment.
.mp4 or .m4v or whatever is natively easiest on iPad, into hyperPad as cutscenes, ending credits, pause screen backgrounds, level introductions, loading visuals, etc etc. Wherever they're used, however they're used.
Perhaps even as a background, if you can get it to run smooth and efficiently. But that's just games.
For the interactive entertainment and book crowd (not me, my daughter), it's a whole other level of usefulness. And a place where their viewers need controls like pause, skip, rewind, chapters, etc... which is where this comes in handy:
A while back, Apple finally made it a little easier to handle video with this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avkit
A lot less coding and research required to create players, etc. Almost straight forward. But still a very modern apple-ish framework. By which I mean "half arsed, under developed and the result of pseudo commitment to unexplained and uncertain initiatives baked in an oven fuelled by dreams from design-by-committee believers ignorant of quicktime's history."
Where's the updates?
News of updates?
introductions to your new programmers?
Any sign of momentum, at all?
I do a lot of thinking with an Apple Pencil™
My thoughts aren't as bright as they once were, but the Apple Pencil© is shiny.
It would be a huge help if you could license or import a drawing framework and permit me to do like the following in the Behaviours Editor:
Alternatively: BACKGROUND IMAGES! in the Behaviours Editor
let me import images into the background of the Behaviours editor where I can put screenshots of my notes so I can see them whilst editing Behaviours. Two options required here: Position Fixed and Float with Pan/Zoom.
Or... SPLITSCREEN!!!
add iOS Split Screen functionality so I can have my sketching app open to the side and refer to it whilst editing behaviours, and add notes when I fumble, fall, fail and flail.
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Behaviour On, Behaviour Off, Tags, Broadcast Messages, Receivers, etc.
Everywhere that a search can/could be performed have a search like this:
str
return results like:
myArrayString
myArrayStrange
myButton Strength
myScore_string
myXYZ_Strong
etc
Highlight all assets NOT used in the library so they can be deleted.
Or similar.
Rolling your hand around in a bit of space in the Behaviour Editor will crash the app back to Home Screen.
@gamecrazy The best thing about a trip to Melbourne? The Great Ocean road is epic, and travelling it in the right direction means you're leaving Melbourne.
nope, not done... yet...
@Aidan-Oxley It's not that difficult, either.
@gamecrazy I also liked Michael Jackson and Prince. And Lionel Richie.
@Aidan-Oxley "Beautiful one day, perfect the next."
@Aidan-Oxley Cheers. I thought I was about to have to learn a whole new math abbreviation lexicon. Very thankful I don't.
I know nothing about mathematics. That's not about to change... I'm a visual thinker... which means I draw. With crayons. And food.
If a wheel is not touching the ground, but is spinning, and the rate of spin is known, and its diameter is also known, is it possible to calculate what speed that wheel would be moving if it were to be in contact with the ground at that rate of spin?
If so, how?
Yes, I know... if you know maths this isn't rocket science. For me it is.
