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Author:	Disthron	Submitted:	13th October, 2009	Favourites:	0
Genre:	Miscellaneous	Downloads:	282
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Edited By Disthron on 2/9/2011

I was playing around with the ray-casting extension that came out a little while ago. While I was trying to make a window within a level I discovered that if you make a texture with pure black in it it is transparent. You can also set the colour of the ceiling to black witch is how the new sky demo makes the sky.

Anyway, I figured out that if the extension is transparent, you can put another ray-caster extension behind the first one and then, if you use a different map, you can see through the "window" texture.

I basically used 2 different versions of the same map. The one on top has the window textures and the one on the bottom has the walls with the window textures removed.

In this example I made it so the player could go from inside to outside by making an invisible sprite that when the player walked over it, it changed the floor texture to grass and turned off the celling texture. I hid the transition by making both the buildings have 2 doors. When the player goes to open the second door they are too close to it to see the change.

Anyway, I really hop that the author of the ray-casting extension desides to add features like different floor/celling tiles and transparent walls/doors as a native part of the extension. Doing it this way is a lot of fiddling around and it's very buggy and limiting. Wile you can make windows that look from inside to outside I have not found a way to make windows that look from out side to inside. Turning on the ceiling for the inside part also makes the outside part have a ceiling too because the sky is just transparent.

Well, I'm pretty tired right now, so I hope that made seance to everyone. And I hope you enjoy my little example.

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I have been told that the downloads for my Discaster demos are down. So I have comiled them into 1 zip and re-uploaded them. Discaster 1-4 all point to the same download witch has all the demos.

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XSRBXS4K (1.3 mkb )

Posted by UrbanMonk

13th October, 2009

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Very nice! This is the best example I've seen made with this extension yet!

I can't wait to get my CD!

Posted by Disthron

14th October, 2009

Hi UrbanMonk, I just played around with the textures and maps in the level editor. Did some minor coding changes but most of this is just the code is just the example file. I still have no idea how the movement works or how to make it render a map from scratch.

Posted by UrbanMonk

14th October, 2009

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ah, ok. Well it's still pretty cool.

The windows are awesome!

Posted by Kisguri

14th October, 2009

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Outstanding!!!!

Posted by erghhhhx

14th October, 2009

Pretty cool stuff, though I don't really get what's so awesome with the windows in particular?

And also, the way the mountain-background "scrolls"...

Posted by UrbanMonk

14th October, 2009

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Transparent windows are not built into the extension.

This example is to show of a clever work around.
I do hope however that transparency will be added to the extension later.

Posted by bigredron

14th October, 2009

man i want this extension! wish they would let me buy a download.

Posted by Disthron

14th October, 2009

Hi Bigredron if you buy the Klick Disc there is now a download for the CD. So if you go and buy it now you can then download it straight away!

Glasskatten, what's so grate about the windows is that they are not built into the extension. Also, when I say "windows" I mean any transparent texture. So in this example there are the windows, the chain-link fence and the glass doors.

It's ok, I really wish you didn't need a work around for this.

Posted by Rhys D

14th October, 2009

awesome example! one bug I found, if you go from inside to outside, open the second door and walk backwards inside, the level renders as the inside one

Posted by Disthron

14th October, 2009

Hi Rhys D, I actually knew about that before. Also sometimes the doors will not close properly and with the glass door half open you get a trippy little effect of seeing half the "outside" would and half the "inside"
world.

I'm not sure if this kind of thing is possible to fix with this work-around.

Posted by Rhys D

14th October, 2009

yeah that's what was occurring with the bug, the transparent part of the door was showing the worlds morph into each other, was kind of cool haha

anyway, another way to do this would be to have 2 different frames, one for outside and one for inside and switch the player depending on which door they walk through

i'm sure you can fix that glitch easily anyway by making the outside door non-transparent in the middle

Posted by Kisguri

14th October, 2009

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I front paged this example on the Klikdisc.com site, is it ok If I include it on the next Klikdisc?

Posted by Disthron

14th October, 2009

Kisguri, yea, I saw that today. It was a little strange seeing my work up there.

Anyway, you can put it on the new Klikdisc if you like.

Posted by Matthew Wiese

15th October, 2009