| My games - http://www.emphatic.seRegalSin wrote:Street Fighters. We need to aviod them when we activate time accellerator.
I'll make one for mine once I actually get around to finishing it. Its pretty dead in the water at the moment.lilmanjs wrote:will there be any more videos that highlight the music packs?
What is this I dont evenAlluro wrote:And now for something a bit different: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4YV7sjYEz8
Hilarious. I didnt know such a thing existed in The Raiden Project.haha! that is classic man!Alluro wrote:And now for something a bit different: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4YV7sjYEz8
Surfaces do not work with every graphics card. Until Game Maker's surface system gets this issue fixed, it will not be implemented. The "blurriness" on fullscreen also depends on what video hardware you have. On my laptop with dedicated nVidia hardware, it is blurry on fullscreen. However, on my newer desktop running off Intel integrated graphics, there is no blurriness.ptoing wrote:This is pretty cool. Some of the gfx are a bit out of place (mainly those big cyany rotating ships), but it's a minor quibble.
What is more or a quibble is that it is BLURRY. If you are not using surfaces there is a way to get clean scaling in Game Maker, and it is also really easy to add sexy scanlines which can be faded to whatever percentage the player would like to.
"Do not work" meaning Game Maker games implementing surfaces refuse to run at all, or crash.ptoing wrote:I know about the issue with surfaces on some graphics gards (mine suffers as well) if you mean the black box thing on sprites.
There actually is a fix for that
Medalling: Ever played any of the Raiden Fighters games? The system is pretty much like it, except the non-golden tiers are not affected by Slave counts. Collect medals one at a time to increase their values until 10000pt gold medals appear. Once the gold medals appear, get 9 of them to appear onscreen at once. They will explode, unlocking the 100000pt medal mode. Collect the gold medals one at a time until they are worth 100000pts. Dropping a medal when it is worth over 10000 pts resets all future medal values to 10000pts. Except for continuing on stages that restart, you cannot revert to the initial tiers of medals once you've unlocked the golden medals.mjclark wrote:Feels like I've come a bit late to the party here but only just getting into Xeno fighters after nZero made comparisons with GwangeDash (which I'm also lovin').
I've read the explanations of rank and basic chaining in this thread but where can I find a full description of the scoring mechanics (medalling, chaining, bonuses etc.)
Also (and I'm quite embarassed to ask this), what do the abbreviations in the fighter performance descriptions mean like "ATK" and "COV".
Anyway I've found so far that this is a really compelling shmup experience so thanks for all the effort and keep up the good work
If you weren't aware of it already, you can verse Black Heart (yeah, GwangeDash has him too but this one's more faithful to Battle Garegga's version) by going to Stage 5-C, EX-6, or by pressing 'T' at the Conquest Mode game select. And some weird debug stuff along with Jade Hydra by pressing 'Y'.mjclark wrote:Thanks Alluro- that's exactly what I was looking for and now I can start playing Xeno Fighters with a bit more awareness!
Hope it's relevant/of some use (the whole thread is pretty great, actually).ChevyRay wrote:This is a tutorial how to get around using GM's built-in screen-scaling, which has an often undesired blur-effect when scaling up. An alternate method was to scale the view-port dimensions to scale the view. The problem with the view-port method is that it causes ugly seams to appear in your graphics when displayed on certain machines.
Thus, we're going to use the surface-method. The good thing about this method is you can apply it to your game easily, because none of your drawing events or anything need to be changed. You just have to make one persistent object at the beginning of the game, be consistent with your scaling, and you're set.
With this method, we will be changing the view-ports as well. This is a sure-fire method, because if the graphics card doesn't support surfaces, it'll automatically revert to using the view-port method, which is better than nothing, right?
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Xeno Fighters R - v0.11 Changelog
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NEW COMPLETED STAGES:
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Stage EX-2 (Forest of Naju)
New feature list:
-Key binding customization
MAJOR CHANGES:
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-Jade Knight overhauled, since the Vic Viper was given its v0.10 Laser weapon. Jade Knight is a single weapon mode ship that now uses Round Laser from Gradius Gaiden as its Missile weapon and Pulse Laser as its Laser Weapon. It now uses standard Options that have a closer follow distance that those of the Vic Viper. It automatically gains the Small Spread missiles upon powering up.
-The following bosses have been rebalanced significantly for lower difficulty levels: Silver Banshee, Jasper Gigas
BUGS AND ISSUES SOLVED:
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-FIXED: Pressing ENTER Key at difficulty select will set rank to 0/0 if player has not played any game during before then. This results in a division by zero error on enemy shooting actions.
-FIXED: Pressing ENTER right after killing a stage boss (before the mission brief comes up) and invoking the PAUSE menu causes the game won't show the mission brief at all but end up in an endless loop.
-FIXED: Retrying a stage in the Conquest Mode menu when your score is exactly 0 will not reset your lives, resulting in the retry having no extra lives instead of 2.
-Optimized shadow code to reduce performance hit when a lot of objects that cast shadows are active.
-EX Medals now fall slower than regular medals. This is to allow players to collect regular medals, while making it easier to drop the EX medal if the players choose not to enter an EX stage.
-P-38's shadow now changes when it performs its loop-de-loop bomber animation.
-P-38's loop-de-loop animation now appears on top of bullets.
-P-38 now has 60 frames of mercy invincibility after its loop-de-loop animation finishes.
-Michelle's hitbox moved from her head to her shoulders.
-Jade Knight's hitbox moved to center of ship.
BALANCE CHANGES:
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-A6M Zero: increased rapid fire rate of main shot.
-Xelcor: Increased rapid fire rate of main shot at lower levels.RegalSin wrote:Street Fighters. We need to aviod them when we activate time accellerator.
Really liking the new changes, especially the bugfixes, and I'm looking forward to trying a (hopefully) balanced Mitsubishi Zero when the next release gets out.Alluro wrote:If you can suggest any useful features, feel free to indicate it here. One other feature I want to implement, but in a later version, will be an easy way to select music packs in-game.
^^This if it's doable.BPzeBanshee wrote:Lastly, still waiting for your view on possible TATE in XF-R. I can tell you now it might not look brilliant at certain angles but its certainly readable and playable the way I've implemented it in GMOSSE. Really its a bunch of commands I got from one of worstplayer's old games and putting it in within room creation code and a global variable to switch between them via a button or in the config. Emphatic requested on last page for retaining 3:4 aspect while fullscreen on a 16:10 monitor and I can tell you right now that GMOSSE rotated on such a monitor retains its aspect ratio with no problems. Sorry for being persistent regarding this matter but I really do think that TATE is a must-have for this project now that the problem of that weird scaling effect on the sides has a workaround.
| My games - http://www.emphatic.seRegalSin wrote:Street Fighters. We need to aviod them when we activate time accellerator.
I've been assigning each ship its own ID number since the VAF Squadron days. It's not hard to make a random ship select. It will be hard to implement one based on how ships are unlocked in XFR. I want to make a random ship select that cycles through ships a player has unlocked already, not the entire roster from the start. Ships will not be unlocked one after another like in XFEX. They will be unlocked depending on whether you clear the game, clear an EX stage, and this certainly will not be done in just one strict order. I can make a random select for the entire ship roster from the start with my eyes closed, but it is not what I want. Now you understand why implementing random select based on what a player has unlocked already in XFR will be difficult?BPzeBanshee wrote: I also had an idea for implementation of a random ship select (I recall you saying it'd be too difficult to do on MSN once but I thought of a way to do it):
Somewhere along the line we gotta assign each ship to a number. I dont know how you do it but in GMOSSE I'm using case/switch/breaks with the events related to picking a certain ship assigned to a number. Anything with case/switch/breaks can't be that hard to convert.
Have an object, obj_random or something with its default sprite being the typical question mark we've seen in earlier XF-R releases. When in contact with the ship selector it will change sprite to another sprite that has the still pictures of every ship. When you press the FIRE key it will accept selection to irandom(x) with x being the ship selection number. If selecting Vic Viper was case 7 and the random generator picked 7 you'd get the Vic Viper for example.
Now I realise for something as simple as random ship select it's probably not-so-trivial for you to go about implementing something with this method, but I'd be willing to have a crack at coding it in via a GMRES or something provided I have some idea of how you currently handle ship select functions in XF-R at the moment. Again, long-term idea, probably an idea for a final release when all of the ships are locked-in as that it doesn't need constant updating.
I can see it not being as easy as the original idea I had, and obviously the 'phase unlock' system in XFEX isn't going to work here with a simple case/switch/break argument by itself though I still strongly believe that with some planning, and good enough manipulation of variables based on specific events it's definitely possible to do. Obviously it's not going to be a complete piece of cake but I'm still willing to have a go to put in something for whatever ships that currently have an unlock plan given the opportunity.Alluro wrote: I've been assigning each ship its own ID number since the VAF Squadron days. It's not hard to make a random ship select. It will be hard to implement one based on how ships are unlocked in XFR. I want to make a random ship select that cycles through ships a player has unlocked already, not the entire roster from the start. Ships will not be unlocked one after another like in XFEX. They will be unlocked depending on whether you clear the game, clear an EX stage, and this certainly will not be done in just one strict order. I can make a random select for the entire ship roster from the start with my eyes closed, but it is not what I want. Now you understand why implementing random select based on what a player has unlocked already in XFR will be difficult?
I didnt get around to sending you a build of GMOSSE did I? Feel free to try MK-III because as it is it should work on your monitor with no issues, and every version I make has an EXE included with it in case you don't have GM8 and just want to play.emphatic wrote:^^This if it's doable.
hey fuck you pal the storytime team has been hard at workskyrish10 wrote:no updates? why?
Where I grew up in Hounslow many years ago, someone used to go round circling dogshits on the pavement with chalk, then drawing an arrow pointing to the encircled shit and writing "Dog owners why?" next to it.skyrish10 wrote:no updates? why?
