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Well I figured it out.  For what I know.  If you use cosine you return a 1 at 0 degrees, a 0 at 90 degrees, and a -1 at 180 degrees.  So I added 2 and that gets everything positive. 1, 2, 3 rather then 1, 0, -1.  Afterward, I multiplied that to the "current speed", aka the speed that it should be without physics, and cube rooted it.  The result is quite nice. Sonic speeds up the loop, slows down at the top and speeds out the loop.

Sorry for not answering earlier, I didn't see it before.

Xeniczone was messing with the fisheye lenze for our sonic Xtreme fan game ( Ult 3D edition not C4) when
he accidentally came across this awesome motion blur effect.

here its shown very exaggerated,
the amount of blur will be linked to sonics walk/run speed.
it wont be nearly as heavy as the screens while hes running,
but when sonic gets hurt we'll blast the screen with the exaggerated effect.

For those of you who may pass out from the sheer amount of speed.
there will of course be an option to disable this effect.



Holy S&@T!! O_o! I'm going to f%$#en throw up !


P.P.S.S. the project is back in full swing.

Last edited by andrew75 (2009-10-14 06:10:11)

andrew75 wrote:

Xeniczone was messing with the fisheye lenze for our sonic Xtreme fan game ( Ult 3D edition not C4) when
he accidentally came across this awesome motion blur effect.

here its shown very exaggerated,
the amount of blur will be linked to sonics walk/run speed.
it wont be nearly as heavy as the screens while hes running,
but when sonic gets hurt we'll blast the screen with the exaggerated effect.

For those of you who may pass out from the sheer amount of speed.
there will of course be an option to disable this effect.

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/4779 … estion.jpg

Holy S&@T!! O_o! I'm going to f%$#en throw up !
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/3985/holysh1t.png

P.P.S.S. the project is back in full swing.

lol, only Sonic could move so fast... while standing still XD

andrew75 wrote:

P.P.S.S. the project is back in full swing.

This is all we needed to know!

Also those camera effect demostrations are crazy, oh and nice place holder icon.

Xeniczone:

Why use two rays to determine the curvature of the ground? If you're using polygons, the triangle normal gives you the up vector of the ground, wich is enough information to know the angle of the ground.

After that, all that's left is getting a left/right vector (wich you could pretty much use an invisible wall and raycast against it if you're making a 2.5D game) and making the cross product of the up and right, you can get the forward.

That's all the information you'll ever need to make a 3D Sonic engine.

Depends which game you mean.  He has a game called Sonic Adventure 4, but it is 2d and more then likely it doesn't use this method.  Since 2d and 3d games use different collision systems.

I have no idea what are you talking about.

I would have to say Gamemaker is no more.  We started the game project over again using Gamemaker, and quickly discovered it is not up for the job,  Just doing all the math problems required for the Physics, and rendering the level gamemaker quickly shot down to 100 FPS. Which is ridiculous, for my computers specs.

Plus I only bought the PC's to compete with my friends on who can build the best computer. I grew up with Macintoshes.  This project is the only thing that was keeping me from selling my PC, so now we are using the C4 engine, which I am personally impressed with.

Some very advanced games running on an nVidia 5200 at 15-30 fps is very impressive, plus I played some of those advance games using medium settings on my MacBook Air and I get over 60 fps.  Which just blows me away that such a great looking game can run on a laptop that is thinner then your average pen and still get 60fps.  That is one powerful engine.

Overall I'm still in the learning process and I hope I will get past the learning curve so we can see some Sonic Xtreme action.

This will be available on Windows, and Mac OS X.  C4 also has the ability to port to the Playstation3, and Xbox 360, but don't get your hopes up because it requires expensive licensing and publishers to do so, plus we don't have the trademark to sonic.  Unless Sega snaps it up it won't happen. Just wanted to let you know it's possible though.

xeniczone? 60FPS is the limit for GM.

my PC only goes 30FPS max, and thats very rarely
some GM games say "45/60 FPS" so the FPS would be capped at 60. I still dont see whats wrong with 100FPS though. thats 3.333 times my max.

the answer will probably be no, but its worth a shot. I've been tring for ages to get 3d physics in GM. and everytime I fail. could you please tell me the maths (not theory) for the 3d physics.

The VSYNC (Max FPS) in Gamemaker is based on the room speed.  Since the maximum room speed is 999fps.  That is the max that the game can do.

I haven't done physics in Sonic yet, when I do I will gladly post the formula here.

Na we just got Sonic's rotation to work. He sticks to the model.

???
you said GM was no more.
that's GM's debug window.
well I am happy you stuck to GM. because no-one has ever done something like this on GM.