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Posted on 03-17-09 06:15 AM (rev. 4 of 03-25-09 01:41 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 103348


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To eliminate the constant barrage of question threads, I've decided it's best to localize all questions into a single thread. Any questions, whether it's something about events, try coding, or simply how a part works goes into here.

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Posted on 03-18-09 10:20 PM (rev. 2 of 03-18-09 10:39 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 103448


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I'm glad I (hopefully) gave inspiration to the idea. I CONTRIBUTED, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ONLY A SMALL BIT! HOORAY!

Okay, I have an ACTUAL question. How do you tell distance in the editor?

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nutman217
Posted on 03-18-09 10:50 PM Link | Quote | ID: 103449


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Distances are measured in pixels in the editor. If you toggle the "mouse" button on the editor, you'll see a crosshair with the exact pixel coordinates your mouse is on.

Center Distance is basically how far a part is in the direction it is facing.

BP Distance is how far a part is in the direction is in the direction it is from its parent part or the middle (coordinates 0,0), if it is part id [1].

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So I've been working on several bosses at the same time. Two have already been seen ("UNFINISHED FINAL BOSS" and "UNFINISHED base"). Two others however, have not been seen. Of these two, one of them is more or less done, while the other is still a WIP (though I'm happy with it so far).

My question is, what would you suggest for them - to make them possibly more difficult/more fun/whatever?


CRYSTAL CORE
Series: Gradius
Signature Weapon: Laser
HP: 13,000
Idea Behind Creation: Just a boss in homage to Gradius.
Notes: Based on the boss of the same name, from Gradius III for the SNES (the only Gradius game I've played). I feel that this guy is fairly challenging, and I like the way it came out.
Download Link: http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1085


MIRAGE DRAGON
Series: Original
Signature Weapon: Oral Beam
HP: 25,000
Idea Behind Creation: The empire created the Mirage Dragon to serve as their ultimate weapon. It is considered invincible, and it is the one that decimated planet Gradius to start the war.
Notes: It's a serpentine dragon. It has several armaments, but its most deadly is the powerful energy beam it fires from its mouth.
Download Link: http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1086



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Son of Makuta
Posted on 03-19-09 05:26 PM Link | Quote | ID: 103524

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Hi, new Fraxy-er here. Got a question. I'm making a rail cannon turret. The large weapon in question uses one of the new-fangled searchlights to project a narrow red laser sight beam, and when the gun's Panel Aim-60 lights your ship up in crimson, it fires.

The problem is that I need a very fast-moving projectile. The fastest I've found is a bullet on 4000 Speed, but that doesn't really do the job - the shot only seems to hit when you dodge into it! Is there any way to get a faster shot - or is there a way to circumvent the charging time on a laser, and just have the full length beam up for a couple of frames? 'Cos that'd be great as well. I'd have to stack tons of them to do enough damage to actually kill the player, but anyway.

Any ideas?

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Posted by Vic Viper
So I've been working on several bosses at the same time. Two have already been seen ("UNFINISHED FINAL BOSS" and "UNFINISHED base"). Two others however, have not been seen. Of these two, one of them is more or less done, while the other is still a WIP (though I'm happy with it so far).

My question is, what would you suggest for them - to make them possibly more difficult/more fun/whatever?


The Crystal Core needs some beefing up on his weaponry. I see some room for needle guns and missiles.

The Mirage Dragon's lovely. Just buff up the energy egg's health, make it spew homing lasers, and add light weaponry to its idle segments, and perfecto!

Posted by Son of Makuta
Hi, new Fraxy-er here. Got a question. I'm making a rail cannon turret. The large weapon in question uses one of the new-fangled searchlights to project a narrow red laser sight beam, and when the gun's Panel Aim-60 lights your ship up in crimson, it fires.

The problem is that I need a very fast-moving projectile. The fastest I've found is a bullet on 4000 Speed, but that doesn't really do the job - the shot only seems to hit when you dodge into it! Is there any way to get a faster shot - or is there a way to circumvent the charging time on a laser, and just have the full length beam up for a couple of frames? 'Cos that'd be great as well. I'd have to stack tons of them to do enough damage to actually kill the player, but anyway.

Any ideas?


Use a blade. Blades are like lasers, except they hurt much more, and require no charge time. Plus, they shoot out really fast.

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Posted on 03-20-09 11:33 AM (rev. 4 of 03-21-09 05:17 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 103585


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My question is, what would you suggest for them - to make them possibly more difficult/more fun/whatever? - Vic Viper

Crystal Core is good, but needs more bullet hell.
The Mirage Dragon looks ok. Perhaps you should see EBBO-KUNDALI for the gold standard for such 'snake' type bosses?
I also put a bit of my creativity into your Mirage Dragon. Fret not, your name has been prominently placed.
This is meant as an example of improving on your creations.
http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1094

Changes I made to your Mirage Dragon
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-There is a core at the tail which must be destroyed before you can access the main core.
-Needle gun spam!
-The energy egg now spews loads of bullets!

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Son of Makuta
Posted on 03-20-09 03:42 PM Link | Quote | ID: 103596

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Posted by nutman217
Use a blade. Blades are like lasers, except they hurt much more, and require no charge time. Plus, they shoot out really fast.


Not enough range, I'm afraid; even with the setting on 300 it only goes a fraction further than the end of the gun barrel! (The railgun's pretty long.) Thanks tho'. Any more ideas?

nutman217
Posted on 03-20-09 06:59 PM Link | Quote | ID: 103606


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Posted by nutman217
Use a blade. Blades are like lasers, except they hurt much more, and require no charge time. Plus, they shoot out really fast.


Not enough range, I'm afraid; even with the setting on 300 it only goes a fraction further than the end of the gun barrel! (The railgun's pretty long.) Thanks tho'. Any more ideas?


Extra parameters can configure the length of the blade.

TADAAAAAH

Oh, and Oneshiningstar, to avoid confusion, please quote the question you're about to answer, and trim off any extra stuff you don't need to focus on in the question, like a list of bosses, or unrelated stuff.

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Son of Makuta
Posted on 03-20-09 07:40 PM Link | Quote | ID: 103609

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Posted by nutman217
Posted by Son of Makuta
Not enough range, I'm afraid; even with the setting on 300 it only goes a fraction further than the end of the gun barrel! (The railgun's pretty long.) Thanks tho'. Any more ideas?


Extra parameters can configure the length of the blade.

TADAAAAAH


That's the 'setting' I was referring to... unless it didn't reset properly or something, so displayed a shorter beam without yet realising I'd set it to a longer length. As it is, my new 'Last Level' fortress of doom boss has 4 railgun turrets on it and those play fine with the slower-moving slugs. I added an event to make the aim panels stop moving for a few frames to let the slug clear the barrel, which improves the look of the firing turret considerably.

nutman217
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That's the 'setting' I was referring to... unless it didn't reset properly or something, so displayed a shorter beam without yet realising I'd set it to a longer length. As it is, my new 'Last Level' fortress of doom boss has 4 railgun turrets on it and those play fine with the slower-moving slugs. I added an event to make the aim panels stop moving for a few frames to let the slug clear the barrel, which improves the look of the firing turret considerably.


Oh. Did you click the 'restart' button on the control test panel? If not, do that. And if that's not long enough, try using a laser and when it reaches a certain frame, make its movement turn off, and make it go back to frame 0. After it's off, ensure that a hidden weapon of any sort with its start frame set to -2 and an event that makes it go back to frame -2, and adds a variable to the laser when it reaches frame -1 is on the laser. Put an event on the laser that turns the laser back on after a certain number of variables has been met. Fraxy runs at approximately 30fps and you gain 1 variable per frame, so making the laser start when it surpasses variable 29 means it fires again after 1 second. Be aware that there is a charge time on the laser, and it takes up a portion of the frames.

Hell, I'm not even sure if I made sense there.

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Posted on 03-21-09 05:55 AM (rev. 2 of 03-21-09 06:05 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 103643


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Posted by nutman217
Use a blade. Blades are like lasers, except they hurt much more, and require no charge time. Plus, they shoot out really fast.


Not enough range, I'm afraid; even with the setting on 300 it only goes a fraction further than the end of the gun barrel! (The railgun's pretty long.) Thanks tho'. Any more ideas?


Perhaps you could use a launching blade, powered by Move joints?
http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1104 <- Launching blade railgun.

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Vic Viper
Posted on 03-22-09 05:45 AM Link | Quote | ID: 103712


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Crystal Core is done now. WOO! Two new creations were finished (I don't have any pics, though). They were designed to be challenging, but not ridiculously so. I want to know what you guys think of them:

GROWTH CORE
Series: Original
Signature Weapon: None
HP: 13,000?
Idea Behind Creation: A boss with multiple forms; it is intended to be fought either at the middle of an adventure, or near the end.
Notes: Gets stronger as it takes damage.
Download Link: http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1111

THE FINAL FORTRESS
Series: Original
Signature Weapon: None
HP: None
Idea Behind Creation: The fortress/level right before the final boss of a fictional adventure mode or whatever. There are several rooms, each with a trial you must overcome to reach the next one.
Notes: For best effect, set the spawning position as "Fixed".
Download Link: http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1112

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Posted on 03-22-09 05:47 AM (rev. 2 of 03-22-09 05:48 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 103713


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Posted by Vic Viper
Crystal Core is done now. WOO! Two new creations were finished (I don't have any pics, though). They were designed to be challenging, but not ridiculously so. I want to know what you guys think of them:

GROWTH CORE
Series: Original
Signature Weapon: None
HP: 13,000?
Idea Behind Creation: A boss with multiple forms; it is intended to be fought either at the middle of an adventure, or near the end.
Notes: Gets stronger as it takes damage.
Download Link: http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1111

THE FINAL FORTRESS
Series: Original
Signature Weapon: None
HP: None
Idea Behind Creation: The fortress/level right before the final boss of a fictional adventure mode or whatever. There are several rooms, each with a trial you must overcome to reach the next one.
Notes: For best effect, set the spawning position as "Fixed".
Download Link: http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1112


Actually, I think I'll stop answering these and actually tell you to post these things in your personal boss thread. Unless, of course, one of them are malfunctioning.

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Posted on 03-24-09 02:19 PM Link | Quote | ID: 103818

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Posted by Oneshiningstar
Perhaps you could use a launching blade, powered by Move joints?
http://acmlm.kafuka.org/uploader/get.php?id=1104 <- Launching blade railgun.


Wow! Like this one. That was impressively fast-moving. I'll bear it in mind when I create railguns in future. (Although it's a bit too powerful for my fortress enemy, which has 4 of them and a slew of other stuff...) What's more is that you don't even need the blades - a solid piece will do, possibly with a blade or burner blasting out behind it as a trail to make it more noticeable, as when it hits the ship it'll cause destruction as per a crash.

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Looks like I'll need some event help to finish my first boss. I've set up a special event that makes the boss rotate when conditions are met, however I cannot make it stop rotating for some reason. Here are the parts and events linked:

Main core
Conditions:
- Durability % < 50
- Rank = 100
- Move frame < 3600

Actions:
- Add 1 to Variable 1 of Rotate Panel S
- Change move frame of Rotate Panel S to 0


Rotate Panel S (aka Sweep Unit)
Sweep Action
Conditions:
- Variable 1 = 1

Actions:
- Play Movement [Self]
- Substract 1 to Variable 1 of [Self]

Stop Sweep
Conditions:
- Variable 1 = 0
- Move Frame = 85

Actions:
- Stop Movement [Self]
The frame to stop it's there because it's more or less the frame when the Panel has done a full circle. Since it's a stationary boss, having it face wrong would kill it. If someone knows any other way to make the Panel stop after it has done a full circle, tell me ;D


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Posted on 03-25-09 05:37 PM (rev. 2 of 03-25-09 05:38 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 103899


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Looks like I'll need some event help to finish my first boss. I've set up a special event that makes the boss rotate when conditions are met, however I cannot make it stop rotating for some reason. Here are the parts and events linked:

Main core
Conditions:
- Durability % < %50
- Rank = 100 <-- Scrap This
- Move frame < 3600

Actions:
- Add 1 to Variable 1 of Rotate Panel S
- Change move frame of Rotate Panel S to 0


Rotate Panel S (aka Sweep Unit)
Sweep Action
Conditions:
- Variable 1 = 1

Actions:
- Play Movement [Self]
- Substract 1 to Variable 1 of [Self]

Stop Sweep
Conditions:
- Variable 1 = 0
- Move Frame = 85

Actions:
- Stop Movement [Self]
The frame to stop it's there because it's more or less the frame when the Panel has done a full circle. Since it's a stationary boss, having it face wrong would kill it. If someone knows any other way to make the Panel stop after it has done a full circle, tell me ;D





Scrap: Rank = 100 on main core.

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Why? In the editor it does work - tried putting it at rank 1 and it didn't Rotate. In fact, the Event activation works, it's just the stopping that doesn't.

It seems that I located the problem (somewhat). After fixing one obvious mistake in the Event set up (the Stop Sweep Event would get deleted at the start of the fight, due to one condition being Variable 1 = 0, which is 0 by default), it seems that the Move Action won't stop if it's one of those "Rotate forever", Move Act 8 for instance - the one I would like to use, since it's the fastest one.

Guess I will have to use the default Act 1, since it's the one that works, even though it won't catch the player off-guard.

Thanks!

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Posted on 03-26-09 07:21 AM Link | Quote | ID: 103987


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Have you tried just using Joint-Turns? If the panel is only needed to turn it around once and not have it spin, that is what I would use.

...Unless this problem has already been fixed. If so, disregard.

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