An attack wave editor

[bfg.gamepassion]

Hello,

 

don't know if this tools will help someone, but, it costs nothing sharing it. This tools is a little attack wave editor, for coding shoot'em up. An attack wave is a movement pattern for ennemy. In the zip file you'll find a fullscreen version, a windowed version, the documentation in french, and the crapy source code.

 

Why i have coded this ?

 

During Ozma Wars coding, a difficult thing was to do the ennemy movement from the Arcade version to the Coleco version. Every movement was made by hand :

 

During 3 times do x=x-1 et y=y+1

During 5 times do y=y+1

Go first step

 

With this tools you can generate this movement visually with mouse and keyboard.

 

 

 

Command :

 

F1 - Save attack wave (QuickSave)

F2 - Load attack wave (QuickLoad)

N - Erase and make (N)ew attack wave

T - (T)est l'attack wave --> Start at the mouse pointer

Cursor Right and Left - Move in the attack wave principal point

Suppr - Erase a principal point in the attack wave

R - ®etrace attack wave

P - See (P)rincipal point of the attack wave

D - (D)ivide principal point of attack wave by 2 (simplify the attack wave)

 

C - ©hange mode : modify precisely by keyboard principal point of attack wave

Cursor Up / Down / Left / Right - Move a principal point

 

Echap/Esc - Quit application and generate attack wave source code in stdout.txt in the main program directory.

 

stdout.txt

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Contain 2 définitions of attack wave :

 

1)

const char awc[] --> relative movement

 

Ex :

 

2,0,1, --> 2 times x = x + (+0) et y = y + (+1)

1,-1,-1, --> 1 times x = x + (-1) et y = y + (-1)

 

2)

const char aw_pivot[] --> Absolute position of principal point

 

For Bresenham type algorythm.

[bfg.gamepassion]

File attachment below. Run under Windows.

AWE.zip

[youki]

thanks for this tool Michel!

[Pixelboy]

Yeah, thanks a lot for posting that!

[+retroclouds]

Nice!!