Request for a screenshot posted.

EDIT: Requested an animated screenshot of the first two levels. I screwed up on the second level and it shows me restarting it after I accidentally made a box go too far down.

EDIT2: A slightly better screenshot? I changed a setting in wabbitemu, from 4 shades to 12. Removed the old one.

Not a real update, but I just want to share that after a natural disaster hampered the other side of the CaDan dev team (geekboy), we're getting back on track.

Tonight during HCWP, we hashed out yet another sprite routine to add to our already growing collection, which looks more like an actual clipped sprite routine than the others. This advancement was necessary for geekboy to start work on a secret character's shot type. (EDIT 2: This was also necessary to work in a primary shot type for the dragon. The flames you've seen was his secondary shot type.)

I also need to remind everyone that we have two slots open for the normal playable characters, and two slots open for the secret playable characters. Sorry Netham45, I decided to drop your pre-lobsterification variant, unless we are unable to get two normal playable characters in.

The next leg of the project beyond that is getting the decompression up and running and codifying CaDan's resource table. These two things are the things that allows CaDan to load level sets, so I cannot take that sort of thing lightly. This means that I'm going to be spending some quality time losing what's left of my hair... and mind... over this mess. You know, debugging and all that good business.

Self note: Create static resource entries and write script commands that rely on them. This way I won't have to figure out whether the script system or the resource loader went boom.

EDIT: While you're mulling over that, why don't you check out some eye candy that geekboy posted a while back that somehow got superseded by a posting I made involving high-accuracy shooting: http://ourl.ca/2637/255825 . If you look at it closely, you can see that it does indeed hit the upper bullet limit.

We kinda need sprites of both portrait, and on-field types. Also, in order to write up a story blurb for each, we also would like some background information about your character. This *is* sorta an RPG wrapped up shooter-style.

You know, there's like four or three slots left open for the CaDan character selection.
These slots do *not* include bosses. We'll be either making our own or calling for that in a separate thread.

All those bullets that you see were coming from just the player. Enemies have their own bullet table.

But that's not the point of this post. The point is that I've got dragon fire going down. Since Geekboy had so many problems, I decided to take a crack at it, and lemmie tell you. It wasn't easy (and it still isn't perfect since it doesn't clip on the left/right sides).

Here's a screenshot of the preliminary version of it.

You somehow figured out how to modify boot1 ?

This time around, I got bullet tracking working. Couple with the fact that the angle values are interpolated to give a better shot AND that I've increased the number of angles in a circle to 256, these things are deadly-accurate. Long gone are the days where you can find a safe spot by taking advantage of the system's inaccuracies.

Even the non-interpolated version (which will appear in bullet engine as a bullet script) is fairly accurate. You don't want to be messing with this stuff!

As of this update, enemies are now up and running. Well, mostly anyway. You can shoot them and they can shoot you (run CaDan scripts). They can die but they can't move quite yet. Haven't gotten around to building MovePath script (both the script themselves and the interpreter). Haven't gotten around to even defining what that sort of script is going to look like. But the important thing is that you can shoot your enemies now.

I've also put together a small routine that smooths out the score increase so it looks like it's continuously increasing. I think it makes the whole thing look nicer.

Note: Each shot that connects with the enemy is worth 100 points. The laser looking like thing is actually two shots glued right next to each other, and a stream of such shots pretty much right on top of each other. The one with three streams are all individual bullets and each bullet counts as a shot. With the way the thing is set up, each enemy gives 12,800 points.