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Side Scroller / Star Wars

by Jeremy Lock · in Torque Game Builder · 03/21/2007 (3:06 pm) · 5 replies

Trying to start a SW side scroller game. How would I go about making the famous title intro for it? Would that be used by script or is there a way that I can animate it? Also does the title screen consist of just one level? Thanks
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Associate David Higgins
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#1
03/21/2007 (3:53 pm)
@Jeremy, are you referring to the infamous yellow angled scrolling text?

Torque Owner Jeremy Lock
#2
03/21/2007 (4:10 pm)
Yes that would be it.

I would love to be able to do an intro like the one I did for flash here:

http://www.deathzerosquad.com/star/

Associate David Higgins
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#3
03/21/2007 (4:26 pm)
Not quite sure thats entirely possible "out of the box", but you might be able to fake it with a custom font that is already 'angled' and then just create a new t2dTextObject for each line, and as the line goes further up the screen, reduce it in size by a set percentage each time until it reaches a specific size, and then delete it ...

Though, this would require you to use a font that was already 'bent backwards' with the perspective look ...

Torque Owner Jeremy Lock
#4
03/21/2007 (4:52 pm)
Could this be custom images too cause I could tweak lines of font and make them one image?

Associate David Higgins
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#5
03/21/2007 (7:26 pm)
I recently posted the "TGB Bitmap Font" resource, you can check my previous .plans and find it ... it utilizes an ImageMap and a Tile-Layer to put text on the screen, however, I also read a recent forum topic that said something about exporting fonts from TGB into BMP or JPG and then editting them, and importing them back in as .FON files or whatever TGB uses ... so apparently TGB uses bitmaps internally as well ... just more optimized then my bitmap font resource ... ;)

Both would work, if done properly ...