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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Wanna do a retro shooter! Any tips?

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basicFanatic
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Posted: 24th Apr 2021 20:20
I'm toying with a little shooter. Super old-school, so it uses "sprites" for enemies. (simply a plane with an image)

Righ now, I have a single sprite and I can move about with WASD and mouse.

Alas, I have already run into some trouble:
1) The view seem to get somewhat flimsy when I drag the mouse while moving left/right. I can't put my finger on why it feels wrong, it just does.
2) if I set my FOV somewhat high, the sprite ends up looking weird if I get too close. I wonder if this is a problem caused by using "real" 3D instead of the fakery of DOOM and such.

I consider using a fixed X rotation, so the player can't look up and down. But I think it'll ends up feeling weird when you're used to free movement.

Any tips, tricks suggestions?

Sources here:
https://kasper-hviid.itch.io/generic-retro-shooter?secret=gdnKBE9JyRMiQd2DEu3c5dStoQ
fubarpk
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Posted: 25th Apr 2021 00:35 Edited at: 25th Apr 2021 00:38
@basic i love the sprite
Quote: "1) The view seem to get somewhat flimsy when I drag the mouse while moving left/right."

Thats because you are strafing left/right (sidestepping) so that is normal i feel

if you want to add splats to walls etc like blood etc take a look at this example (last two posts)
https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/222027?page=4

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basicFanatic
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Posted: 25th Apr 2021 14:03
Thanks for the splat. Looks good!

Funny thing is, I started writing this game because I thought you might need some code to adjust the lighting on the fly inside your racing game, but then I got sidetracking into trying to finally make a 2½D shooter. So feel free to use my dev.agc
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Posted: 25th Apr 2021 14:12 Edited at: 25th Apr 2021 14:41
Thanks
Illuminating everything i do like this


and if you see the attached video that was an attempt with the shader being used to paint cars it needs work but instead of a splat image this is just
a coloured square being applied

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Posted: 25th Apr 2021 14:42
If i could work out how to apply it to an object face rather than a vertex location it should work better
for the way the object is texture mapped

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