gotchas within the blacktooth33 and blacktooth34 rooms

[hendrikbez]

When you fall from the room above, you loose al your life for falling down , as the enemy always go the same route to get to you, you can not do anything to escape the enemy

[dougmencken]

But how it goes in the original game 🤔? Heels can’t control him/her-self on the fly....

Either way, it looks like this “imperial guard” hunter machine’s behavior needs to be modified to not see the character above it

[dougmencken]

okay now?

[hendrikbez]

Thank you,

Will play/test again later

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Not a swear word

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 at 19:00, Douglas Mencken @.***> wrote:

okay now? dont.hunt.anything.above.gif (view on web) https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/assets/3457110/e7f0476a-cd19-4969-9b61-9f4add800bad

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[dougmencken]

And yes, since you already asked about cheats... Such cases are the real reason to use them. For the situation mentioned, I’d suggest using [ alt ] & [ shift ] & [ y ] to become invulnerable for 25 seconds. The list of cheat key combinations is published on the project’s wiki

[dougmencken]

meanwhile, the “weight” (the speed of falling down) of Heels seems too low, (s)he is certainly heavier ...at least when compared with the Head’s speed of falling

[dougmencken]

This is how that is at the current moment

update~ the flickering of shadows on the floor (visible on this movie) was fixed in https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/commit/0600ee2225a45dc36fcbb09b67ae0597829ce642

[hendrikbez]

Thank you Hendrik

[dougmencken]

falling down is accelerated now since https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/commit/ab6baa66ab84c32ee335cfb3a240ab4bc25b9898

[dougmencken]

the blacktooth33.xml room is one of the hardest in this game

[dougmencken]

...and once you passed it and went up, you meet that volatile brick in blacktooth34.xml

https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/blob/efeec5cc8695ef4d8851baaed3430570a37e99ef/gamedata/map/blacktooth34.xml#L88

meanwhile there’s also the "behavior of slow disappearance on jump into" which takes twenty (20) times longer before vanishing

https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/blob/efeec5cc8695ef4d8851baaed3430570a37e99ef/source/behaviors/Volatile.cpp#L12

I’m sure the latter will fit the gameplay better for both lowering the walkthru difficulty and holding the surprise of the brick’s disappearance

[hendrikbez]

Thank you, will test it later today

[dougmencken]

after https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/commit/c2e66bbb109b20ba3cb3507e90ccdc83fe17759f and https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/commit/99ddae72191926bddcba1b93025710a1977e4dbb I think this issue is closed

[dougmencken]

[hendrikbez]

What do you use to make a gif video in ubuntu, I need to make one to show you a bug in a screen. (I am new to linux)

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blacktooth-33-and-34-are-okay.gif (view on web) https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/assets/3457110/7b30c0a2-fc51-42cf-91d1-a9c75e4573c0

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[dougmencken]

What do you use to make a gif video in ubuntu, I need to make one to show you a bug in a screen. (I am new to linux)

🤔 maybe add an article about it on the project’s wiki

The videos I uploaded here are in fact GIF animations. At first I collect the sequence of in-game screen captures, that’s done by the game itself : to begin a recording hold [ alt ] [ shift ] and type [ v ], the same keys again will end the process. The recorded captures are put inside ~/.headoverheels/capture/ and have names of the same random set of 10 letters and digits followed by the sequence number of a frame. The file format of captures is PCX (because allegro library supports that)

Then I’m converting such a sequence of pictures into a GIF animation. I wrote how I do this in the recent 333rd commit https://github.com/dougmencken/HeadOverHeels/commit/efeec5cc8695ef4d8851baaed3430570a37e99ef (and sure you can find some other easier way to turn a bunch of PCXes into a GIF animation)

[dougmencken]

I’m closing this

[hendrikbez]

You can close it