Question before I buy.
by Neil Fontaine · in Torque X Platformer Kit · 12/18/2009 (7:09 pm) · 3 replies
So, I am going to be buying TX2D, unless I can use the starter kit with the free version that comes with Creators Club. Either way, I would end up buying the source code for my programmer, so we can put the game on 360, indie section.
Question: Is the latest version of PSK working with XNA 3.1 and the latest build of TX2D? Does it install now?
I read a lot of threads here about how PSK would not install for them. This worries me.
Does PSK come with any tutorials?
I will be using it to build levels for a ninja game I designed, and the programmer will be doing everything else.
General question: Say you have a really long level, several screens long. Your background is only one screen long, but your foreground is the length of the level. Will the background have to be copied over and over and over in order to show up in each camera view as the character runs forward? If you use a scroller, do you have to stretch it the length of the whole level? How is paralax scrolling acheived? And I mean parallel to the character running like in Castlevania 4.
Thank you. Answers to any of these questions are much appreciated.
Question: Is the latest version of PSK working with XNA 3.1 and the latest build of TX2D? Does it install now?
I read a lot of threads here about how PSK would not install for them. This worries me.
Does PSK come with any tutorials?
I will be using it to build levels for a ninja game I designed, and the programmer will be doing everything else.
General question: Say you have a really long level, several screens long. Your background is only one screen long, but your foreground is the length of the level. Will the background have to be copied over and over and over in order to show up in each camera view as the character runs forward? If you use a scroller, do you have to stretch it the length of the whole level? How is paralax scrolling acheived? And I mean parallel to the character running like in Castlevania 4.
Thank you. Answers to any of these questions are much appreciated.
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#2
to answer your questions:
1.) Yes it does work with the latest TX2D.
2.) Yes it does come with excellent documentation. An indepth explanation of the PlatformerFramework itself, then two level building tutorials and also a character building tutorial. Note these are not about how to draw/create your levels and characters, but how to use the components and the code provided with the framework.
3.)Don't exactely understand your question, but the framework comes with a parallax scrolling effect that you can configure.
Hope this answers your questions.
Andi
12/27/2009 (11:20 am)
Neil,to answer your questions:
1.) Yes it does work with the latest TX2D.
2.) Yes it does come with excellent documentation. An indepth explanation of the PlatformerFramework itself, then two level building tutorials and also a character building tutorial. Note these are not about how to draw/create your levels and characters, but how to use the components and the code provided with the framework.
3.)Don't exactely understand your question, but the framework comes with a parallax scrolling effect that you can configure.
Hope this answers your questions.
Andi
#3
Check the latest employee blog - I get the impression the company is taking a well-deserved vacation :)
12/27/2009 (4:18 pm)
@Neil: Busiest time of the year, the person who made the kit has a life (and isn't actually an employee, I think) and the employees just made the big move to Las Vegas/are in the process of moving/panicking over not being able to find a place to live ;)Check the latest employee blog - I get the impression the company is taking a well-deserved vacation :)
Neil Fontaine