In march i worked on making a top down character controller and tileset. I've also refactored and cleaned the existing codebase.
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The feature added to the engine i'm building with love2d are:
- Correct rendering of top down rectangular tiles. The engine physics is based on square tiles but the graphics are rendered with the tileset ratio.
- Top down character controller, with featuring dashing and some tweaks for automatically navigating around near corners. Different tipes of working walls and stairs.
- Refactoring for both the top down and platformer avatar, functionality divided between a movement controller and an animation component.
- More refactoring and cleaning.
I also researched a bit for a good workflow for animating sprites, this time i used as reference an animation downloaded from Mixamo and rendered by Blender:
blender can render 3d models in orthographic projection instad of using perspetive
i always animate the skeleton moving before putting it in place, making it travel a constant amount of pixels ( 4px here )
I've also scrapped a good amount of stuff, here it is the first character / tile design, the tiles were ispired by Ricardo Bofill's Muralla Roja :
level editing with TileD
posted : 2024/03/28