How to make a scene scroll.?

[Acex89]

I have a ship on water

How do I make it look like it's moving forward?

 

[Calibre]

There is a simple way and a hard way.

The simple way is to add a fog Fog01 works best and have it at about 50 opacity,  Then make the move speed like Y=5.

The other way you need to add a scrolling panorama script.

 

[Brewmeister]

How about actually moving it, using the "Set Move Route" command?

Be Well

 

[Calibre]

I was assuming he meant a ship as in built with the ship tileset?

 

[Luminier]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing as Calibre. How's about making your post a bit more detailed, Ace? If it is indeed a ship made with a tileset, I might have a pretty snazzy idea.

 

[Brewmeister]

Cal, I was assuming he meant a charset ship, like on a worldmap. (I hate it when I do that!) :scruff:

Looking forward to Lumi's "snazzy" idea....

Be Well

 

[Luminier]

Well, it might not work too well... And it'd take a lot of pixeling talent. :\

Well, I was thinking you could maybe use a custom character set that looks like waves being pushed by the ship's bow. Er, I may not have explained that well enough... I'll try to elaborate on it more if you're interested, Ace.

 

[Calibre]

I get it.  It's just a hell of a load of work considering a nice thick fog can make the same impression scrolling down... Pirates of the...

 

[Brewmeister]

Lumi,  http://www.twofineirishlads.com/sitebui ... lliant.jpg[/img]

Ace, can you post a picture of your ship map?

It's gonna be one big-ass character set :scruff:

 

[Acex89]

lol It's a ship built with the tileset

...and I suck somthing aful with pixel art so I am not so sure i could make waves

 

[Luminier]

Well, you could always make a request for it in the resource request forum. Could you take a screenshot of your map for us?

 

[Acex89]

When it is all done yes I'll post it up here

 

[Luminier]

Well, if you have at least the bow(front part of the ship) finished, that would be enough. Oh, and just so you know, don't expect to get a proper looking ship from the RTP ship tileset. There's literally no way to make a good looking ship with it. :x

 

[Brewmeister]

Here's a cheesy example using the RTP ship (Alexx), and the ocean autotile.
Doesn't look that great, but it shows what you can do with some creative editing.

http://home.comcast.net/~bridge161/small_ship.gif[/img]

This is just one static image, moved down 8 pixels in each frame. With a little
editing, you could make the scrolling image look more like waves by just some
small, subtle adjustments.

Be Well

 

[Acex89]

no picture on my computer?!!
Broken image or is it just me?

 

[Jason]

Lol Brew, that looks wierd, but good at the same time, someone will just have to add the waves lol.

 

[Brewmeister]

Ace, it's a problem with IE, and my personal webspace.
Click on this:  http://home.comcast.net/~bridge161/small_ship.gif

 

[regi]

Whoo, sweet. All you need to do is add waves hitting the back of the boat and maybe have them go up and down so it seems like it's floating.

 

[Brewmeister]

Better to wait for Ace's actual map. That was just a demo of how to do it.
And a better looking ocean tile, that one's too bright & 'cartoony'

Now that I think of it. that part could be done with a autotile. Let me try it.
Then you'd just have to add the foam & spray to finish it off.

 

[regi]

Only problem is if you use autotiles, the water and the foam/spray won't match up :down: Charactersets and autotiles animate at different rates-- I tried this before in one of my games.