btw. if you do get it, the sloping tile part is located in the bubonic the warthog section.
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What would be the best way to do this.....
i know the book is really dated, but this topic is covered in the book "spells of fury". not sure if it's still worth it's price (it covers directX 2 i believe), but if you see it on sale for $10 or a friend can lend it to you, might contain some good reading material..
If you head over to http://www.crack.com, you can download the complete source code for 'abuse'. I believe that you may also be able to download the original binaries as well.
Abuse is a good side scroller with nice action. I wouldn't call it the best side scroller, but it is pretty cool. Anyways, my point being, abuse has slopes in it and but researching the source code, you can learn alot about implementing them into your game.
Hope this helps!
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Im working on a 2D side scroller, and want to have "sloped" surfaces. not curved, just like hills and ramps. I cant just use tiles, because that would give me stairs. What would be the best way to store/handle these?
Thanks
Ratman
I don't know how many times this has been said - just because the graphics are tiled does NOT mean you have to have a collision map of the same resolution/tile size.
You can have 32x32 tiles, and for collision checking, you can use 8x8, 4x4, 64x64, whatever. You don't even have to use tiles to check for collision detection.
I haven't read that spells of fury, but your best bet is to use a generic solid tile, and ones that allow slopes of different sizes. Generic tiles are fast checks, while a more advanced one will do pixel by pixel checking or something.
Jim Adams
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