Just a few things...

[Icalasari]

A few questions and an idea:

1) *Hopes to not get beaten* How do you make super sonic fly? *beaten*

2) How do you use opengl? *Beaten*

and the suggestion:

Everybody keeps on saying that loops are impossible, yet couldn't it work if you put a boost pad on every few steps? If their is a way to alternate where gravity is coming from, couldn't you also do that?

 

[Shuffle]

No, you can't change where gravity comes from, and speed pads would be retarded. This isn't Sonic Adventure.

 

[Prime 2.0]

No, but adventure example is! *bea*shot*

 

[shadowstar]

A few questions and an idea:

1) *Hopes to not get beaten* How do you make super sonic fly? *beaten*

2) How do you use opengl? *Beaten*

and the suggestion:

Everybody keeps on saying that loops are impossible, yet couldn't it work if you put a boost pad on every few steps? If their is a way to alternate where gravity is coming from, couldn't you also do that?

1. Hold down the spindash key after jumping
2. Run SRB2 with the command line parameter -opengl

 

[Icalasari]

The speed pads would probably be the closest anybody would get to making a loop... Damnit. If only I knew how to make level wads...

EDIT: Thanks!

 

[supershadow2]

I recall JTE trying to make a loop a very long while ago, but it kinda... stunk.

 

[Rob]

Didn't he succeed though?

I want to see it.

 

[supershadow2]

And I think Ree-c said he would try in Wednesday.

 

[Flame]

Didn't he succeed though?

I want to see it.

Same here... i wana see an Actuall Loop

probably TONS of FOF's or something

 

[fox.dx2]

I wish I could make slopes though.

 

[Shuffle]

I wish I could make slopes though.

Grrr -_-. How many times do I need to tell people that there ARE slopes?! Sure, they don't work with collision, they're slower than hell, and you need to compile a special EXE to do it, but they ARE there.
http://sepwich.com/ssntails/mb/viewtopic.php?t=1989&highlight=slopeswin
^-- The link to the exe no longer exists, so don't bother asking for it.

 

[Icalasari]

I just thought of something:

Wouldn't making the steps virtually microscopic allow a GOOD slope to be made? Also, couldn't you then reduce the friction, so that there isn't as much resistance?

 

[Shuffle]

Can't get any smaller than a fracunit.

 

[Blitzzo]

And making tiny steps would reduce performance because of all the polygons it has to render each frame. It's much more efficient to make a single slope, which only uses two polygons (in OpenGL). And for Software compatability, we could possibly grab the Duke3D source and use its slope code...

 

[Shuffle]

Or just use stair slopes like we do now.

You CAN get smaller than a fracunit, but not in the map format.

 

[SSNTails]

And making tiny steps would reduce performance because of all the polygons it has to render each frame. It's much more efficient to make a single slope, which only uses two polygons (in OpenGL). And for Software compatability, we could possibly grab the Duke3D source and use its slope code...

Duke != Doom

ZDoom actually wrote its entire software mode all over again so that it could run with some of the Duke stuff.

Not to mention, Duke code is not GPL.