Author Topic: Possibility of a Platformer (2D) playertype  (Read 1392 times)

Before anyone jumps at me, I know that this is currently impossible with the default playertype. But what if we didn't use the default playertype?

Some technical questions:
Would the playertype be able to face only one direction, or could it turn?
Would it need multiple eye joints to accomplish this?

Some aesthetic questions:
Would it use the default player model, reanimated?
Custom model, and if so, what would it look like?

Didn't Trader or Space Guy or someone like that make one of these ages ago?

Didn't Trader or Space Guy or someone like that make one of these ages ago?
Topdown playertype? Yep.

No I remember a Mario style sidescrolling one too.

Maybe it would be possible to switch the player model to the side, have it be third person only, and not be able to look.

No I remember a Mario style sidescrolling one too.

Yea he did.

Maybe it would be possible to switch the player model to the side, have it be third person only, and not be able to look.

If I remember correctly, that's exactly what the playertype did. However, the way the default playertype is set up, it kinda breaks the game, so wasn't ported after v8.

The reason for this (I think) is that Blockland doesn't handle side rotations of the camera (for playertypes), so he had to resort to a hack. However, I think you could get around this problem by adding eye nodes to the side of a playertype.

Top-down just changed the camera angle, it could probably be moved to the side similarly.

Top-down just changed the camera angle, it could probably be moved to the side similarly.

The reason for this (I think) is that Blockland doesn't handle side rotations of the camera (for playertypes), so he had to resort to a hack. However, I think you could get around this problem by adding eye nodes to the side of a playertype.

Why was the "hack" so inefficient? It seems like a good workaround.

Why was the "hack" so inefficient? It seems like a good workaround.

It was only available during V8 before the engine change. I'm going to look up the old topics, brb.

EDIT: Here is the topic Space Guy originally posted in.

More info.
« Last Edit: December 25, 2011, 12:46:25 PM by Thorax »

It was only available during V8 before the engine change. I'm going to look up the old topics, brb.

EDIT: Here is the topic Space Guy originally posted in.

More info.

Oh i see.