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The abandoned citadel
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Ancient, yet advanced technology was left on this citadel
(Work in progress: this post will often be updated as long as the platform allows me to do so)
Update November 28th: I made some basic assets, also based on sprite shapes: background hills and parallax columns! I feel this gives a feel of an ancient and enormous place. I have also set up the 2d pixel perfect camera, it works like a charm! it pixelates everything and tries to make all objects to move a single pixel in the screen based on the pixels per unit your whole scene manages (its a good idea to keep the pixels per unit standard in your own project, I'm managing 10 ppu)
Update November 25th: This weekend I put all my efforts to finally make the sprite shape to work as I want, and I think I finally got something tastier than before! Now I'm using 2 assets only: one for the rocky items of the level, and other for basic vegetation. Now that I have a PSD with all the guides I need and I have more know-hows on creating sprites for sprite shapes, I'll be creating more of then in the middle of the week. This project won't be focused on gameplay, therefore I might be using 3rd party assets for the character and camera movement, however all the art will be created by myself
Also, I was finally able to make the corners work, but now I'm having another issue: the 2d collider is not being generated as I would like, I gave up on this and I edited manually the polygon collider vertices on top of what the sprite shape attempted to generate for me. It would be really helpfull if the sprite shape collider offset could be as large as I would like rather than being limited from -1 to 1
That's all for today
Update November 13th: Hello there for anyone reading this update. This weekend I've been checking deeply how sprite shapes work. I have used previously in another project, but not with all the features it has. I wanted to use corners as sprites, however I faced this bug
https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/2d-sprite-shape-corner-setting-for-sprite-shape-controller-is-not-functioning
It seems that this bug is not fixed even if its reported the otherwise. since some comments say its still happening in 2018.2. I'm working around this bug by making sprite outlines, trying and fixing the corner based on a single sprite, which is more difficult than it should be. If anyone reading this has somehow solved this bug, I'd like to know how did you fix it.
Summary
The abandoned citadel is an environment art demonstration for a pixel-art 2D adventure platformer I'm developing. In this game you have to explore an abandoned citadel which seems to contain very advanced technology, but their habitants believed this tech was actually magic. This game won't contain narratives, but a story told by the environment itself.
Challenge tools used so far:
- Sprite shape
- Pixel perfect 2D camera
More info coming soon!
