Hello,
I would like a 2D "Doom" opponents in the game and wanted to ask if this is possible again? Is there perhaps already a guide? I have sprites for Idle, Walk, Run, Shoot, Dead and unfortunately no idea how I can accomplish it

Could someone please help me? I would also buy a ready-made 2D Enemy as a template in the store

I have legitimately no clue how to possible start this and therefore think that it can not be done yet.
I might be wrong though, maybe scripting gurus like SmallG, Dvader or Corno1 got an idea on how to tackle this.

From my perspective: This is not yet possible.



-Wolf

Best I can come up with as a quick test....
Its possible to just have them animated as just running I suppose as they were a bit erratic anyway
So I guess its not impossible to fake it ..

As far as I know you can't change or control 2d animations, the best way might be to use multiple entities and swap them as needed.
2d is relatively new in GG so there's not really many commands yet.

Yes, there are very few LUA commands to control the actual texture of the flat 'quad' decal model right now, but as the application of such control is vast, this is something that will likely happen once we get some community momentum behind the idea. There are many techniques for this, but the one I would choose is a texture atlas which subdivides the animations for one or two actions, and then use 'texture slices' (texture volumes) to load up the texture 'block' with more animation sets for extra actions, which can then be switched to without too much memory overhead. Texture volumes are treated as one texture and can be thought of as a box with many slides contained in them, and those slides can be indexed instantly and rendered to the screen. Would be a great feature for other things such as TV monitors and screens, shimmering portals, fixed dynamic reflections and perhaps the most exciting, changing the clothing of characters and surface texture of entities to transform them in game without resorting to switching in a second entity.

could this not be achieved with a few stacked 3D plains, one for each frame and show/hide them in the timeline to give the appearance of an animation like a flicker book ..... so when its loaded up in GG you just need to set the animation frames and play/loop ...... just a thought!

I did get him animating and shooting using a decal ...
But then he lost the will to move

so, that's the static guard taken care of lol

I'm probably wrong but my thinking is: a 3D flicker book of plains could be imported as a character and incorporated into the AI system and declare the required csi_ frames for basic movement .... would the lack of bones be an issue, don't know, but maybe worth a shot

Interested about this last part.

3com

Having never tried this I am unsure, but as Lee suggests a texture atlas would be needed. If you used Bond's TV shader on a plain and had the anims as frames of the run etc. you could sort of do it. Although as there is no way to control that anim, you would indeed need several plains with the various anims attached and hide/show the relevant anims. I think it would be possible, although a lot of work in both graphics and scripting. hope this gives you some ideas to play with

@synchromesh

How did you manage that the NPC the player attacks?

I once played around a little with the decal (decal_facing.lua) and that is exactly what I was looking. Now I would have only managed to do that the decal will attack the player

The closest I could come. :/ since I'm no good at LUA



Considering we can build an atlas for 2D decals for things like fire, smoke and etc. It seems almost possible. I mean currently you can have an animated 2D person however to trigger changes in the animation based on its actions is currently not possible as all mentioned above.

(Ive not yet practiced with a moving and animated 2D decal.)

Here ya go ... This will show you

Thanks a lot!