MechaSource - Beta SDK Discussion, Develop, share and play games

OH GOSH! THAT'S AWESOME FOR SOMETHING LIKE A PLAYER PROFILE! <3!
But, yeah, I would still need to do external files since people would need to make certain poses and also make they image transparent (or some BG color that MS could recoganize as transparent).

Ah cool! I wonder how you could make the joints as separate sprites/image files but the assembled character still has a perferct cell-shaded-ish border on it's sides...I bet that MechaSource made them itself after it assembled the character parts, right?

Great! We'll them work with ragdolls-like characters, instead of "animations" like in MMF2, right? Because that way is far more easier (and generally much less glitcher) than in MMF2, not to count MMF2 had limited animations and some faulty animation speed.

I know it's kinda soon to say, but if I succeed on making a good EBA/Ouendan fangame, I could try using Royale's animation engine for the dancing sprites on the background (since I was planing that there were different dance styles for the player to choose, such as "Fighting Oundan" style, "Crusin' EBA" style, custom style and even downloadable ones. Who knows, there could even be a "Caramelldansen" based dance style! )

Also, not trying to make you bored, but what are your plans for Mechaudio, that Killer 7 thing and "CM3" (which apparently is Case Maker 3)?

And....you said they're COMMERCIAL plans
Well, you didn't said that, but you replied to it. Anyway, those things are all going to be freeware, right?

Killer 7 = The Royale. After we discovered something was already named that we renamed it.

...CM3 will probably not be out because the cr***s bore me.

And I was considering at one point into making Killer 7 commercial, but this plan was declined. It'll all be freeware.

That's right. MechaSource supports pixelshaders and this is one of them.


edit: PLEASE NOTE that The Royales character engine is and will most likely not appear public. This is because it's advanced coding and the tutorials are for beginners. Unfortunately if you want to make something equal you'll have to do it yourself, or use images. This is also to keep the personality of The Royale, because if everyone had this system The Royale wouldn't too special. Sorry if some got me wrong.

This post has been edited by MechaBowser on Aug 29 2008, 07:59 PM

Yay! :3

I understand. Actually, I even KNEW that woudn't get public for the same reasons. What I meant in that other post is that I would try doing and using the same animation and bodypart system like in Royale, not actually getting it's engine and putting right into my game. That is because EBA/Ouendan use some kind of ragdoll models that seems to dance according to the positions of the hitcircles on the screen, so it would be far easier to do bodyparts just like in Royale(not EXACTLY like Royale).

But on a side note,

OSHI-! As far as I know, pixelshaders can do pretty fancy and professinal effects! To start with, and you already know, Osu! makes use of it in the Combo Fire (I think), Snaking Slider and Shader Effects (aka Bloom effect) options/settings it provides. And there are some really cool effects with Shaders on!
Will MechaSource be able to do things like Bloom Effect or (less probably) Combo Fire, too?

Along with MFGG Ware will there be any other of your old games included in this package?
still hoping against hope for any version of SSBF

Yes, although that doesn't really have that much to do with pixelshaders, but yeah you could make a neat fire effect with them though.
Bloom effect is supported btw.

Oh and feel free and try to copy The Royale body system, I don't mind. It's just that I don't want them to appear in like 50 games.

Well, The Royales, which is actually an upgrade from the original MFGG Royale will be featured. Else I don't think so. However, don't lose hope, we'll always update the MechaSource service and maybe one day I might not be so lazy and add SSBF :D

Wait, it'll use Ragdolls? Can't it at least have support for Animated GIF Sprites as well?

Well, The Royales, which is actually an upgrade from the original MFGG Royale will be featured. Else I don't think so. However, don't lose hope, we'll always update the MechaSource service and maybe one day I might not be so lazy and add SSBF

You still have SSBF?
I thought you lost it long ago!

Royale sounds good if it is executed as well as your fans are praising it.

I guess I'll have a try at that MechaSource too, when it comes out.

Sorry but animated gifs won't be supported. However, it'll support alot of facial expressions and hand animations.

pixel shaders?
but what if we run into the whole problem with
"my video rive doesn't support pixel shaders!"
what will we do then?

Then the pixelshader wouldn't show.
Anyways most graphiccards support pixelshaders, the only problem is the pixelshader version.
I doubt it'll be a major problem though.

ok good
but i feel like im missing out
i need to buy myself a better graphics card

So this thing Supports

Sprites and Ms paint Drawn Type things ( like royal style )

if i drew something in flash and threw it in there it will it work awesome?

MechaSource can only load the standard image files, which are bmp, png, gif, jpeg, jpg and all the other crap.

Flash will not work, however, I'm thinking about implending that for cutscenes and all the other stuff. I'll notify you if/when it happens, okay? The only problem I need to solve for that, is what I do to a person who does not have flash installed.

edit: Ka-tching!


This post has been edited by MechaBowser on Aug 30 2008, 04:39 PM

Oh so like if i draw something on ms paint i can use it as a player!

i mean it should work for photoshop as well if i save it PNG and what not

This post has been edited by ~Smoke~ on Aug 30 2008, 04:41 PM

If you're asking if you can use pngs in MechaSource then the answer is yes.

nah i wasn't but Neo answered my question on MSN

its like im learning more awesome things from this every time i view the topic

SO what exactly is this? Like a game maker sort of program?

Yes