Scott,
You have an interesting Idea here. The problem is that this is a quite dynamic Object. Here are some obstacles I have about this.
Everytime you collect a new ship, you're adding a new ship to your fleet at the bottom (I'll say we'll cap it at 4 max ships you can control) Of course, tlike galaga they all follow your ship.
Now if you have 4 ships spread like this:
ship1 ship2 ship3 ship4
Obviously the center location has to be configured to be inbetween all the ships? What would be the most effective way to do that?
Also, if you have just 3 ships, what to do then?
and if you have just one ship.. I suppose you focus it at the ship itself.
My problem is you're going through the playerlist and updating all of them at the same time.
So would it be better to creaqte a completely new object, called "player center" then when you go through the player list you place them all around it?
Just an idea, trying to see if it's any good or if its too much work.
Each playership has its own values, you know, like whaty weapon it's using, etc. So this is going to be like GALAGA (when you capture your ship back) but with an edge.
Any additional thoughts and input is greatly appreciated! I do love your idea and I think I'll use it with the tweaks I described above.
You have an interesting Idea here. The problem is that this is a quite dynamic Object. Here are some obstacles I have about this.
Everytime you collect a new ship, you're adding a new ship to your fleet at the bottom (I'll say we'll cap it at 4 max ships you can control) Of course, tlike galaga they all follow your ship.
Now if you have 4 ships spread like this:
ship1 ship2 ship3 ship4
Obviously the center location has to be configured to be inbetween all the ships? What would be the most effective way to do that?
Also, if you have just 3 ships, what to do then?
and if you have just one ship.. I suppose you focus it at the ship itself.
My problem is you're going through the playerlist and updating all of them at the same time.
So would it be better to creaqte a completely new object, called "player center" then when you go through the player list you place them all around it?
Just an idea, trying to see if it's any good or if its too much work.
Each playership has its own values, you know, like whaty weapon it's using, etc. So this is going to be like GALAGA (when you capture your ship back) but with an edge.
Any additional thoughts and input is greatly appreciated! I do love your idea and I think I'll use it with the tweaks I described above.