Zeta Flow

Thanks! I'll give these new features a try, it looks like it'll be a lot of fun. Curious to see what else you'll try to implement, too.

well, one suggestion was that in addition to an editor screen would be a text-only version of the editor (or mode). I was thinking about levels that are designed much bigger than the screen, and let you 'move' through them by rotating. In this case, a ring with obstacles, guns, barriers, and so on. ...

I thought I'd broach this as sort of discussion on level design. I've been trying to get a feel for it, and seeing what varieties I've enjoyed or thought were unique. Many of them are 'shoot the floating ship' or that style; the most interesting that I saw instead messed with the shape by having a r...

I've never seen Sethum before, but I wanted to point out his recent three levels. Once I got into it, I vastly enjoyed Death Spiral's design. It's so damn disorienting, it's like flying in the death star trenches, being in a perspective-skewed funhouse, and in some sort of rotating carnival ride all...

Only problem with that last idea Mouzi is that no one's levels would appear on the list when they first put them up there. Would be a bit barren methinks. I do like the other suggestion, however, about having to beat a level to save it. There are a couple good posts about it on the S & F sectio...

It might be a scripting thing... the dropdown menu might just enter a script command when it's read, so creating a parallel script would allow you to give it both. You'd need to cause an error and see the output to get a hint at what it might be, and even then I'm not sure that's actually what he di...

Yeah, caught that a little too late. I must like shoe leather. -.-
Good levels by the by. It took me a while to even guess at how some of them were working.

Me, I guess? I said it wasn't very minimalist, even though it met the parameters to the contest. I have exams to deal with, so I don't have the time to plan anything else. Or do you mean one on the gallery? EDIT: Sorry for jumping the gun and being irritable. Did you mean "Minimalist Killer&quo...

Ok! This level is much "noisier" than I wanted for an "Art of Zen" level, but I had been experimenting with this one and it comes to less parts if you ignore the invisible bits. Here's the breakdown, although there might be a +/- 2 error in count. Visible: 25 Weapons: 10 Invisibl...

I have to do the same thing; my AI panel won't even open otherwise. Another problem, just as annoying if not more so, is about key-presses. Sometimes they don't work at all no matter how much I hit them. Particularly with changing anchors, sometimes it'll lock onto the core and not allow it to cycle...

Quite an accomplishment. I tried to do it with the auto aim, but only managed to take out a 'wing' once. I'll attempt again once I get some time to do something.

Bringing this up here even though it was brought up on another thread; what about invisible parts (size = 0?). I have been counting them in my design, but Mouzi has not... and I certainly wouldn't complain given the necessary complexity of some rotator sets if invisible parts don't count to the over...

I was... that's a good rules question. Are invisible parts (cool, there IS such a thing! I still want to recommend an invisible 'tag' thugh...) part of the 30 part count? Who came up with the rules, anyway?

heheh. I'm afraid my idea is nowhere near as elegant or interesting as that, but apart from -really- thorough use of rotators and AI scripting, the only other option I have for this is using some things like 'rotate part to player', which looks freaking ugly for what I'm playing around with.

I agree. ;) Thanks for your help, it looks like the scheme with two rotators is more towards what I expected. Unfortunately, while the idea seems to work, it seems to require a lot of AI scripting and additional parts for it to function as smoothly as I want. It means I might not have much parts lef...