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title: Onwards to Powerups!
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author: nek0
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tags:
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- "devlog: pituicat"
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- english
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description: "New update on the progress of 'pituicat': Powerups"
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---
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Hi again!
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after the last update I wanted to try implementing something I was a bit
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anxious about: Powerups. They were quite a wildcard until then, sonce i didn't
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know how to implement neither the interaction with them nor how effects would
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be communicated or even passed on to the player.
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Turns out my worries have been ungrounded. Implementing everything was quite a
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breeze. Picking them up uses the collision detection system already present, I
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only needed to alter the collision reaction. Powerups are their own type using
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an enum to define the stored effect. very straightforward. Upon collision with
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the player the effect is passed unto the player with a given amount of time how
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long the effect lasts. Finally even the powerups present on the map have a time
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to live and despawn when their time runs out.
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I also started to make some minor tweaks, like the player character looking
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in the direction they move. but see for yourself:
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<video controls="true">
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<source src="/vids/2021-05-02.webm" type="video/webm" />
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</video>
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The first smaller pituicat is a powerup granting more speed for 5 seconds. The
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other one is just a test with collision objects which are not part of the map
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definition. I am quite pleased with these results, but I see, that I now need
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to work more on visuals to make things on screen more understandable.
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At this point I want to stress, how powerful [ffmpeg][ffmpeg] is. The above
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video was generated from an OpenGL API trace. If I had known this before, it
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would have saved me tons of worries trying setting up a finicky recording
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system, which was the cause for the lack of a nice showcase video in the last
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update.
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All the progress on the code is, as always, for you to see in the
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[gitea repository][gitea]
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With all that said, I wish you all happy hacking!
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Keep calm and wash hands.
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[ffmpeg]: https://ffmpeg.org
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[gitea]: https://gitea.nek0.eu/nek0/pituicat
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