Battle Royale storms

How do I...?
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I think the “fog of wars” example has a really close effect. ill mess with that

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“One of my main problems using the extension is how do I make the red go infinitely out of the circle” <[Problem solved] now it’s the closing in circle

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the sprite masking extension just seems to hide all of the image outside of the object. but what about a action with the opposite effect? that would basically be Hide image masked with Object

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Not if you use a sprite and scale it to x 100 for example. The only drawback would be the pixels on the borders between the storm zone and the playable zone, I don’t know how well the border will look if you scale it a lot.

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This was my thought. I modified the example project and removed anything irrelevant. With the hole being inside the object, I was surprised that the collision still worked.

try it. I switched it to the top-down movement behavior.

I’m not familiar enough with the extension. It needs testing. I also don’t know what the settings like height, maximum and thickness should be.

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Edit: Again, I’m not familiar with the marching squares extension. So, actions might not be needed or the settings might need tweaking.

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It all gets complicated when the size of the place is large.

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Ill try that tomorrow, thanks

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I’ll just ask one question before I try this. Is the “red zone” object necessary for this?

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I’m not at my PC but I believe so.

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Now i have a random question. not anything to do with the zone. how do i make the shape painter draw a box on every Instance of an object for a map? with that extension

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You could use a for each instance. Im just guessing. I’m not sure what you want to do.

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i can get it to work. but then the performance is very laggy, here’s a picture

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EDIT: This is the map btw. UM. Never mind. fixed it. now its smooth.the problem was i had it running an action that wasnt even required that was from marching squares. and since this is literally 1000 cubes. it all runs at once. now its just cubes

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Hello, Im a little late to the party, but I would try making a layer with a giant tiled square of storm color. adjust the layer opacity to add that color over storm area, and use a mask filter for the eye of the storm. just a suggestion.

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What’s a mask filter. I’m not familiar with that.

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https://wiki.gdevelop.io/gdevelop5/extensions/sprite-masking/#object-masking
I may have used the wrong term…
its like a spotlight, or a hole in the object, the object/sprite is opaque, unless you set layer opacity different like I mentioned previously, and the circle or whatever your mask is, is the only spot that is transparent. Like a circle could be moved around to look like its lighting up the background, making what’s in the circle/spotlight visible.

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I’m aware of that extension but I don’t think it can do inverted or negative masks. You’d have to create or draw an ln image of a rectangle with a hole.

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Yeah, I just spent like 20 minutes trying to do what I explained and the mask extension does not work the way I expected it to. Too many years of graphics programs maybe? And then realized exactly what you said, just make a giant bitmap with a hole in it. haha! Dang, Sorry I couldn’t be more help…

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I had the same initial thought. You can use a shape painter to draw the square with a hole except you can’t simply draw a square and then erase the circle. I thought of drawing it in parts but even that wasn’t fun.