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2D All the way! / Who wants a begginners 2-d sprite tut.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 6th Mar 2004 23:05
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Hey all,
I was thinking the other day that all I ever do on these forums is ask questions so I decided to take one of my simple 2-d games and break it down into steps and put it in a tut. I've just started drafting out my tut(which for once isn't going to tell you how to make your 100th pong game .) I don't want to spend ages making a tut if no-ones going to read it so if you are in need of something like this just show your interest. It will include

@keeping bitmaps simple

@loading sprites

@moving sprites

@moving sprites together and seperately

@VERY simple a.i.

@collision detection

@loading and playing sounds

@putting it all together


I may include further chapters as I go on and if anough people register their interest a .zip file with all the nessecery bitmaps,sounds,etc.

"fireball"
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GameMaker Jason
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Posted: 6th Mar 2004 23:47
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i'm interested

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Chaos
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Posted: 6th Mar 2004 23:53
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This would be very good for begginers to the 2d world of programming. Good Luck

Chaos
Also check out my isometrix=c engine in progress

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Erusuwasu
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Posted: 7th Mar 2004 08:59
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Yeah sounds great. I know when I was more active on the forum I spent most of my time trying to explain a lot of that stuff, but never had the time to build a tutorial. Good luck.

Should be a big help to a lot newbs out there

It comes to a point when feelings gotta get hurt, and get dirty with the people spreading the dirt.
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tayete
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I'd love to read it!!!


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soapyfish
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Posted: 7th Mar 2004 13:58 Edited at: 7th Mar 2004 13:59
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Great to know some people are interested i've alreaddy typed up the intro and 3 chapters, Keep It Simple, Drawing Sprites and Loading Sprites.

"fireball"
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GameMaker Jason
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Posted: 7th Mar 2004 16:42
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you really great

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Code Stealer
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Yes please! If you want any help making sprites and such just post here!

GIve me more power!
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Erusuwasu
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Posted: 8th Mar 2004 11:50
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I was going to say go over to DBHeaven and look at their tutorials, but it would appear that the site is down or no longer exists...

When did that happen???

Oh well, just make sure that tutorials are organized in a sequential fassion and make them easy to navigate through. There's nothing worse than a tutorial page that's a pain in the @SS to get around in. You end up spending more time trying to find the tutorial than reading it, LOL.

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Cros Jovil
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want it bad
looking forward to it
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Zero Blitzt
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Sounds great.

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soapyfish
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Posted: 13th Mar 2004 01:28 Edited at: 13th Mar 2004 18:56
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Hey again sorry for not posting for a while. The tutorials going great I'm about 3/4 done and its a lot easier to explain then I thought it would be. BTW when I'm finished I'll be looking for a noob or two to read through it and see what they think of it so if any of you want to do that just shout.

Edit: Out of the people who are interested in this tut how many are willing to download it when its done and how many would prefer it to be posted on the forum(bearing in mind that its gonna be about 20 pages when finished.) Please tell me so I know wheather or not I have to do a lite version for here.

"fireball"
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soapyfish
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hhhmmmmmm like I said earlier I don't want to do a tut if noone wants one and it seems reapermans beaten me to it. Does anyne still want my tut or not.

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Quote: "hhhmmmmmm like I said earlier I don't want to do a tut if noone wants one and it seems reapermans beaten me to it. Does anyne still want my tut or not"


Code Monkey.... Please feel free to post your tutorial. I am sure that people here would be happy to have more of them as they are a bit thin on the ground.

IMHO I would think that this forum would have a special area for user tutorials, as most language boards do, but regardless of that, it would help newcomers to the language.

What may be a good idea is to post a set of tutorials (as in a list) so that they are not duplicated.

I think I will do that now on this thread.

Good luck with your tutorial.
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soapyfish
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Posted: 15th Mar 2004 15:02
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Thanks, to be honest your finished game looked a hell of alot better than mine anyway but hopefully I'm gonna get a web page up and running today so when its done I can put my tut on there. Thanks again for the encouraging words.

"fireball"
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Rennekon
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I'll check it out for you

John "Dark Lord of Angel Destroying Destiny" Pringlebee, maybe?
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soapyfish
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Posted: 20th Mar 2004 01:17 Edited at: 20th Mar 2004 01:21
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Thanks its almost finished, I keep doing bits on it so it shouldn't be too long now. I'm going to stop using this thread now so if you want any more info about the tut look at the thread called user listings for 2004 by reaperman.

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