(SSGX Origins) Let's make a Wipeout game! This time for real!

[Rotational_aspect]

Zero: are you going for a more F-Zero GX style HUD?

[zero3growlithe]

No, that's my style, no copying and I don't even know how F-Zero's HUD looks like...
EDIT: Now I know, aaaaaand... where is similarity to my HUD?
EDIT2: Oh **** there is no such thing in Unity as GUITexture Alpha Cut-Off?! Ayfkm!? What do I do now? How do I make this damn HUD to fit every screen now?.... this sucks... oh, and what about using text writing features?! Noooooooo! I'm going to break :€

[Xpand]

tecnically it should fit all resolutions provided that it is drawn in the max resolution. How are you placing the HUD? As a in-game object or as a visible 2D object script?

[Rotational_aspect]

I made a poor choice of words- what I meant was that the style seems more 'cartoony' (i.e F-Zero) and less like WipeOut which I found slightly surprising since it does not really match stylistically with the main menu that I have seen. Not really my cup of tea, but its well done and looks professional. And I did not mean to insinuate that you were copying anything.

[zero3growlithe]

As in-game object because 2D texture doesn't have alpha cut-off feature and I can't make my energy bar work without it (why unity dev's didn't put this small thing into this software?...)
btw. Font placing problem resolved so just this resolution one is left which will take additional programming which will take me some time cos I'm lazy xd (but I know how to do it)

@Aspect: Ah, ok :d I don't really look at those things ("does not really match stylistically with the main menu") so I've made it that way

EDIT: Hey, should ships bank while turning on mag-strip? Cos I thought that maybe using some kind of mag locks and other nameless stuff it just don't have to bend to turn... xD
EDIT2: Another problem about HUD... it is susceptible to light, ambient light which I'm using for better effects and it doesn't have such thing like layerMask

[dreadofmondays]

Can I request you guys keep a link on the first post to the most updated version of the game released so far? I want to see what you've done but there are 191 pages in the thread and I don't know where to start. :/

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

I know that this is a topic breaker,but...
I suppose that Mach One has gone out the window?

[Xpand]

If mach one is the speed that zero3growlithe put into Oryx's track testing then special tracks will have to be built for that speed class...

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

So...completely out the window,or perhaps in a post-release release as DLC?

[zero3growlithe]

@dreadofmondays: Newest one is here: https://rapidshare.com/files/3252641533/SSGX_Alpha.rar (RS is going to delete this file soon so u better hurry )
@FEISAR: Nobody said that

@Xpand: Can you send me the script that you've used to move airbreaks in SSGX (play animations)? It will save me some time and effort

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

May I ask:
How many percent of the game content is complete?

[zero3growlithe]

About 49,687572548393992927362037574928625373728% i think... no, wait, game content? Well that depends on how many tracks/ships we will have at the end.

[docfo4r]

Hahaha

I think he was talking about how many tracks, ships, weapons etc. are really completed yet.

EDIT: Nevermind, saw the word percent in his post

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

I ask because I want to know if there is space for Mach One Speed Class tracks.

[Xpand]

@Xpand: Can you send me the script that you've used to move airbreaks in SSGX (play animations)? It will save me some time and effort

I never managed to make it work correctly, but it works the same way as the ship banking script, only it should use the local object axis instead of the world object axis:

private var horizSpeed : float = 15;
private var horizAngle : float = 30;
private var turnSpeed : float = 120;
private var hBank : float = 0;

function Update(){
    // Get input, rotate ship and restrict rotation angle
	var horizAX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
		
			hBank = Mathf.Lerp(hBank, horizAX, Time.deltaTime * horizSpeed); // Restricted Z-Axis variable for read-only
	var CurrentAngle = transform.localEulerAngles; // Variable for Z-Axis Angle in degrees
			CurrentAngle.x = -hBank * horizAngle; // Change that variable
		transform.localEulerAngles = CurrentAngle; // Set ships rotation according to this variable
}

[zero3growlithe]

Uh... huh... okay, If so then I'll write my own cos I thought you used your build-in animations to make it easier... even better because if I would've wanted to make ship break I wouldn't be able to move both air breaks together in same direction as I assume animation doesn't include such move?
btw. Unity doesn't import local rotation of objects so you need to make your own pivots inside Unity using scripting in order to do that i suppose (rotate air breaks correctly)

[Xpand]

Well making the pivots correctly is easy, just align then with the airbrake junction line with the fuselage. I have animated airbrakes on the 3D files, but you said they wouldn't work in Unity, so I deleted them, but it's easy to get them working again.

[zero3growlithe]

Well making the pivots correctly is easy, just align then with the airbrake junction line with the fuselage.

Erm, translate text above to JavaScript (C# will do too) then we can negotiate if it's so easy xd
Anyway, I got my brother convinced to get back to programming and maybe when I'll teach him some Unity works on SSGX will go faster

[Xpand]

No, lol, I was mentioning the easy part as rotating the pivots, not scripting the animation. I thought that the script would use the local pivot instead of the global pivot... I gotta start making some experiences on Java too, once I'm done with the exams...

[zero3growlithe]

I'm free for almost 2 months from now on so maybe i'll make a beta version of SSGX... or even demo during this time We'll see how it will go... disconnecting for some time now
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