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thatandplaygames
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Posted: 20th Mar 2020 16:24
Is there a way in Game guru to highlight enemies and items? I've gotten feedback on a game I'm making for friends and they all say it's hard to see the enemies and Items to pick up. In FPSC some of the items would glow so they were more noticeable.

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Posted: 20th Mar 2020 21:09
Add a light near the item perhaps? Or some decal or such that or make an object with a different texture. All sorts of ways to do this.
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Posted: 20th Mar 2020 21:31
shaders will be needed to make the item glow with an effect but you can use decals or lights as dvader suggests or you could make the object rotate or wobble a bit too or even just a little decal arrow etc (think Resident evil).. plenty of simple solutions available
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Posted: 21st Mar 2020 02:38
The cheesiest way to do this (maybe the fastest though)
would be to PromptLocal(e, "=\/=")
But then, since there's no flexible options in it, the color and 'Y' location
and text set (NO ASCII) makes it extra cheesy. So the above are better
solutions-- unless perhaps for small, nearby items?
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Posted: 21st Mar 2020 08:23
I really do miss a lot of those old DarkShaders for FPSC.

Even ones with a simple solid white stroke is nice. I've not played around enough with shaders in GG. Mostly because the last time I did I crashed my comp
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Posted: 21st Mar 2020 11:25
Quote: "I really do miss a lot of those old DarkShaders for FPSC. "

I remembered that DarkShader never fully worked with FPSC. I miss shader geniuses like bond1 and Uzi Idiot who created great shaders in fpsc.
I also miss all the modders in FPSC: efx, corvus, fenix, Project blue and green, cranox, wasp etc. That was a wonderfull time
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Posted: 21st Mar 2020 11:49
This might work for you.

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/219081
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Posted: 21st Mar 2020 12:54
does anyone has any links on where to learn GG shaders?
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Posted: 21st Mar 2020 13:39 Edited at: 21st Mar 2020 17:07
Quote: "does anyone has any links on where to learn GG shaders?"




Using glow.fx here.

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2020 02:18
Good shader's are a massive advantage No clue about them though, beyond tweaking obvious stuff in existing ones. I consider them interesting but a bit above my attention span I use Game guru because I want to avoid the low level stuff

I have Dark Shader. Never found it much use even in DB Pro. It's a wonder there aren't any decent packages out there that can make DX11 ones in a more art package style.

I do vaguely remember one have seen, Paint 3D I think, but no idea if it could be used for GG. Might be worth a look @smallg
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Posted: 29th Apr 2020 21:20
Thanks everyone!!! I'll use this below and now I can have different decals for different pickups.

function destroybasic_init(e)
end

function destroybasict_main(e)
RotateToCamera(e)
PlayerDist = GetPlayerDistance(e)
if PlayerDist < 80 then
PlaySound(e,0)
---CoinCount=CoinCount+1
Destroy(e)
end

end
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@smallg

this may help you understand shaders, you have a very logical mind so should be straight forward for you
https://store.steampowered.com/app/314720/ShaderTool/
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Posted: 30th Apr 2020 14:41 Edited at: 30th Apr 2020 14:43
Quote: "this may help you understand shaders, you have a very logical mind so should be straight forward for you
https://store.steampowered.com/app/314720/ShaderTool/"

yh BOTR mentioned that in another thread but it's not really a shader writing tool but more of a way to see/tweak a shader without an engine - i.e. unless you know how to write shaders in code already (which you will already need and you then import into the node based system) it's not much use
it looks very helpful for combining shaders or something like that though
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