2D space shooter with parralax scrolling
Hi all I've been working on a 2D shooter with lots of sprites. I use realJ and based it around alien landing from the Black art of java, initially i only used awt libaries but have updated it with JApplet and Jpanel. I have a loading progress screen that now dosen't display with the 1.4 plug-in. I've used Advanced media tracker and ripped most sprites for this, but it's not commercial. Any tips or feed back greatly appreciated. The whole lot weighs in at 1 mb so be patient.
Please find at
http://mysite.freeserve.com/rdf/Example1.html
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rossdof] at [2007-9-27 22:26:59]
Sorry about the double post, got the url wrong on the first post. I'd be intrested how it runs on various platforms. The fps thing basically clamps the fps, thanks in advance.
Also is it worth making such a big applet?
Only had a couple seconds to look at the game. Looks good. I'll try to look again later for longer. 1meg is pretty large for an applet. Can you split the jar up? Then load your wave one stuff first, and while the person's playing that, load the rest in the background. I'm assuming most of the meg is graphics and the latter waves use different ones. Just an idea.
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Right, so you're not using a jar? Particular reason for that? That would cut the size down a bit right off the bat, plus only one http connection for downloading instead of one per file. Much faster.... Worth a try I think.m
neat game, abit more work, and it'll be a pretty good game :)
Abuse at 2007-7-7 12:58:09 >
Cheers for all replys, Right i've jared the classes and images, more tips comments please. Jared version at http://mysite.freeserve.com/rdf/Example2.html
This is one of the best shooters i've seen on this forum, the graphics help a ton, keep up the good work, btw I have the same book your reading but i'm having tons of trouble, did u know java before reading the book?
mp_fx at 2007-7-7 12:58:09 >
Is the Black art of Java a good book for learning how to make games?
hey your site is offline!
Yeh sorry back up at
http://mysite.freeserve.com/java1/Example1.html
>>did u know java before reading the book?
No i had no experience in java though i'd been messing around with blitz basic which is great for learning game techniques of all kinds.
The black art was a good book for me to begin learning java and oo programming.
Ross
well my friend, thats some impressive stuff.. Nice job.
Nice work!!! The graphic are crisp and the actions is smooth(even on the cumbersome old workstation I'm currently using!)How long did it take? How long's the code?
Hey thanks for the encouraging comments :)
It took me a couple of months as a part time project so to speak.
The codes pretty dam long not sure how long though!
As metioned before the graphics are ripped off but am looking into trying some clay/plastercine animation as my girlfriend is an artist!
Still a hundered and one improvements i should make.
I'll keep you updated with any significante revisions.
best regards ross.
hey great game!
i noticed the annoying mousecursor. you can use this code to make the mousecursor disappear:
BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(1, 1, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR); // hiding the mouse cursor
setCursor(getToolkit().createCustomCursor(bi, (new Point(0,0)), "nullcursor"));
> hey great game!
>
> i noticed the annoying mousecursor. you can use this
> code to make the mousecursor disappear:
> > BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(1, 1,
> BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR); // hiding the mouse
> cursor
> setCursor(getToolkit().createCustomCursor(bi, (new
> Point(0,0)), "nullcursor"));
>
no need for the BufferedImage creation
according to the api documentation
* If the image to display is invalid, the cursor will be hidden (made
* completely transparent), and the hotspot will be set to (0, 0).
so this should work fine.
setCursor(getToolkit().createCustomCursor(null,new Point(0,0),"empty"));
Abusea at 2007-7-18 16:15:48 >
Thanks for this - I've been trying to work out how to get rid of the mouse pointer too.
I tried this...
BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(1, 1, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR);
frame.setCursor(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createCustomCursor(bi, new Point(0,0),"empty"));
And it worked fine.
But I tried this...
frame.setCursor(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createCustomCursor(null, new Point(0,0),"empty"));
and it gave a null pointer exception.
Regards,
Tim
