Following my last update, and fortunately for me (and the project), someone has come forward to help out with the graphics – Colin Wren is his name (see his site here), and he’s a top man.
The graphics Colin supplies are in .dae format, and with a lot of help from this site (Tipu’s iTiger) and an XML parser (TBXML), and much head scratching, we got the models going nicely.
At the moment they’re not animated, but they will be soon…
Other things now in there are bombs and collisions. To aid testing on the simulator I’ve added an auto-jump feature on the player – a collision in the x or y plane makes him/her jump. This also works quite nicely when testing on hardware so I may keep it (maybe as an option). I’ve also updated to the latest version of the 71Squared Sound Manager.
The button top left flicks between the male and female model – other controls as before (bomb button now works of course).
So, still plenty of things to be done, but slowly and surely it’s coming together.
Here’s the latest project folder:
Ant Attack xcode project
Hey there!
Just a quick note to see how things are coming along? I love what you’ve shown so far, and done so very gracefully. Any news on an update for us eagerly awaiting a new bunch of code to learn from?
D2
Hey D2.
To be honest I was so completely underwhelmed with the response to this project (lack of response!) that I’ve kind of not touched it for a while.
I never learn – I’m always hoping for any feedback to my posts, but am lucky to get any it seems (apart from yourself obviously!)
I will try and get some more stuff done – a bit of optimisation maybe on the map rendering, plus some animation and stuff and it will be much nicer.
Thanks for posting…
John, you can’t just go and stop .. this is an awesome project you are doing, and I know I stop by at least once a day to see if there are any updates
Not only is this a classic game you are working through, but it’s also a sensational learning tool for people like me.
Either way, if you need inspiration to carry on, you’ve got my email address, let me know if there is anything I can do to help
D2
Hey,
I am a programmer like you and I am grateful that you put this up so i could see it but if you like i could do some graphics for you because i am also good at that . Reply to me on twitter @nvrendingsoft and i will be happy to do the graphics for free. Thanks
Thanks for the offer JJack – I think I’m OK for graphics at the moment…