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2D All the way! / I NEED SERIOUS HELP

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Programming Dragon
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 23:11
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Ok this is my problem. The tutiorlies in DBA are a bit confusing if you know what i mean. Now i dont get anything at all about making 2d games. Can someone give my some advise or a tutioral link or anthing at all that would help me. Im using Dark basic regualar.

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Programming Dragon
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I think i have DBC

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Programming Dragon
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yea i have DBC my bad

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Programming Dragon
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COME ON PEOPLE HELP ME OUT HERE

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justinHeintz
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1st dont right a million post you can edit them
2nd what kind of 2d game you want to make and is it scrolling or not ?

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Programming Dragon
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scrolling

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Pincho Paxton
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Get an art package and draw lots of pictures that animate when they are stuck on top of each other. Like a flip-book. They are put into your program as sprites. Like Sonic. That will take you a few days, so do each part of the game, one step at a time.

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Programming Dragon
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wait identicle pictures?

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Pincho Paxton
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Lol yeah, draw lots of identical pictures so that you have an animation of someone standing very still! J/K!

No!

Draw the legs running..or something.

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zircher
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I'm not a DBC user, but the learning process for DBP is the same.

Start with line one of a tutorial or example program. Learn exactly what it is doing, reference the manual and help files often. Move on to line two, repeat. Take your time and learn the syntax of DBC, these are your tools that you will use. The commands allow you to communicate with the computer and tell it what to do. Most games follow a set pattern: initialize, load resources, run the main loop. Each stage can be composed of multiple commands.

Depending on available time, it will take months to master all the syntax that you will need.
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ProfessorKill
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So you're a "Programming Dragon" that can't program?!?!?! No real offense intended. It's just funny.

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waffle
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DBC is very slow in 2D.
better off using 3D plains and treating it as fake 2D
The swarm demo will show how to do that.

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Pincho Paxton
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I thought that, but my tests seem to show that DB Classic is faster at 2D than 3D. It might depend on the graphic card.

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Shadow Robert
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hey i'll ask Rose & my brother, but my brother made a pretty cool 2D game for her about a year ago
i think i've still got it on a PC at this house, as i thought 2D in DB Standard was slow; but my brother was capable of coding something up that ran blindingly fast

:: envious glare :: bloody show off

he's coding style is long but very understandable so if they say yeah then i'll post it up in the code snippets.


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yeah

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