[Kyanos]

I started this little project a few months ago. I was extremely inspired and eager to make my very own LoZ. A huge-ish undertaking I knew but definitely do-able, with a little patience and determination. Now I've hit a pretty good snag. Try as I might, and trust me I've tried, I can't get that damn boomerang to come back. I mean just like in Zelda, I want it to always comeback to link carrying any sprites it's picked up. So now I'm frustrated yet still determined and patient. So I let it sit a week or two, and try to move on to other aspects of the project, art, maps... But no, I've lost it, I can't do this myself, well I could and will if I must, but some help would be awesome! So here it is, my wip Legend of Zelda TC, Link 3D. If this is interesting to you, and you have the con skills to help me over some of the higher hurdles please pm me or post here, maybe we can work together. If you like the art or map aspects involved and want in, there is more than enough work to go around.

[attachment=6733:Link3D.zip]

[TerminX]

Whoa, I love it! I am constantly impressed by some of the more unconventional uses of EDuke32 like this. Are you going to turn it into something else when Nintendo sends you a C&D?

[Kyanos]

Thanks, and Yeah I sort of figured nintendo wouldn't like it too much, but were pretty obscure here and I hope to sneak by under the radar. I doubt they have much authority over how I use my own scratch made voxels though. The music however...

[Forge]

this clone has been around for several years and nintendo hasn't gone after them, so i wouldn't worry too much

http://www.zeldaclassic.com/index.php

[Mblackwell]

You should have just sent me a PM. I could have given you a few lines of code for it. Good to see you're making progress.

You definitely want to start with this.

[Kyanos]

Thanks. My problem is with changing the velocity so the boomerang goes backwards. I'm not too sure exactly how the code sits now but I had a state in use called facelink. It's in ITEMS.CON I'm sure I was really close to having it work a few times but the trial and error method only got me so far. I have the rupy set up to be picked up with the boomerang and the two travel together, away from me

[Mblackwell]

Drek, on 24 May 2013 - 05:11 PM, said:

Thanks. My problem is with changing the velocity so the boomerang goes backwards. I'm not too sure exactly how the code sits now but I had a state in use called facelink. It's in ITEMS.CON I'm sure I was really close to having it work a few times but the trial and error method only got me so far. I have the rupy set up to be picked up with the boomerang and the two travel together, away from me

If the spinning is an animation it should really be as simple as facing the LINK actor and moving toward it (with move commands or use a bit of trig to get a velocity for movesprite, which would also work even if the spinning isn't an animation), and then setting the rupee to the boomerang's location. I'm sure that's what you already tried though...

[Mblackwell]

@Drek:

I can send you a fixed CON later tonight if you'd like (assuming I get some time in a little bit).

EDIT:

http://mb.mirage.org...k3D_changes.zip

Just edited a couple of lines and then redid the boomerang actor. Note that there's a hack so it finds walls and such. It's not perfect but because of how certain things are set up in the mod it was the best I could come up with off the top of my head on short notice (and the issues it has would probably go away if walls were given clipshapes, or could be programmed a bit differently/cleaner if the arrows weren't a projectile and didn't rely on cstat 256).

[Kyanos]

Thanks a million! I just woke up and downloaded that. What a morale boost, I'm excited to work on this again today.

[Mblackwell]

PM me if the code doesn't make much sense... I was tired when I wrote it and didn't comment it for you.

[Simon_Croes]

This is awesome! nicely done and thanks for sharing your test build I'm looking forward to a demo one day Keep it up!

[Kyanos]

A demo is in the works, I've been working away in slab 6 making more art assets. I've also fine tuned my now working boomerang, it's picking up rupies and hearts now and bringing them back to link, (one at a time too, what a bitch that was.) My plans are to release a more playable demo by the end of summer. I'm thinking a small overworld with one complete dungeon, a boss, and of course a piece of the triforce.

[zykov eddy]

Looks awesome, I can see a lot of potential in this. Have you posted your work on nintendo or zelda forums?

[Kyanos]

Yeah, I have put up pictures over at zelda forums. Just quietly in a back corner there. I didn't show them this mess here yet, waiting for a more complete demo before I really share it. It just dawned on me today as I was coding this that multiplayer is a possibility, I think that opens up huge potential, a modable, mappable, multiplayer 8bit 3d RPG. I spent the day coding in bombs. And the big item pickup animation.

[Kyanos]

Almost a year has passed and I've decided to post a little update here. This project is still very much alive and moving forward rather fast now. Just last night I finally got a working map cache system, meaning I can go from E1L1 (The Overworld) to any other level (Dungeons), and back again. Eduke32 saves the mapstate so it is exactly as I left it, plus some code that saves player specific gamevars to the .cfg file so that once the old mapstate gets loaded ammo, health, and other vars get overwritten with the current values from what happened in the dungeons.

This sits now with 90% of the code done, I just need to add a few more enemies, and some triggerable effects/doors. Oh, and a shop system... shouldn't be too too hard.

About 50% of the art is done, still have NPC's to do, and like I said above some more enemies, all voxels. Link has a voxel for every weapon, facing every cardinal direction, N S E W, and again for every weapon but now with the large shield, and another variation, every weapon with his blue suit, and again with red... 171 unique voxels make up the player, done.

Mapping sits at 0% with just test maps and samples, I do have a _clipshape0 map now, mapping is pretty fun and simple for this. A combination of sectors and voxels make up the environment.

All sounds are there, wav rips from the 80's. I'd like to find better .ogg remix' for the game music.

[Kyanos]

Quick update:
I've got Princess Zelda in now as a second player choice.
Coded a 4 directional camera rotation system.
A Northward pointing HUD compass, tied into the camera direction.
Rewrote all enemy code to no longer use ai system or move commands, all custom coded movesprite enemies for much more control in scripting.
All defineprojectile weapons gone, now using custom movesprite code like monsters and everything else.

quick to do list:
Fire, the candle, burning bushes, moving blocks, shop system, bombable walls/rocks.... most enemies

[Mark]

Drek said " Oh, and a shop system... shouldn't be too too hard."

Yea right...real easy, said the many con code noobs like myself.

[Kyanos]

Mark., on 27 March 2014 - 01:15 PM, said:

Drek said " Oh, and a shop system... shouldn't be too too hard."

Yea right...real easy, said the many con code noobs like myself.

Well I plan to make a single shop sprite. It would use x,y,z vel in mapster on these shop sprites to give them a price, quantity, and picnum to spawn. I can use hitag/lotag then as an activator variable too if needed.
That would be sorted out in eventloadactor.
The actor code would use findnearactor to see if the player is nearby, making a quote appear and allowing the purchase to go through if player hits use.


Added: Here is the shop code I have, for now. It doesn't do much more than spawn the item once purchased, I need to manually place sprites in the map to show what's for sale, how much...

Spoiler

eventloadactor SHOP_TRIGGER
	cstat 32768
	getactor[THISACTOR].hitag hitag // trigger
	getactor[THISACTOR].lotag lotag // item
	getactor[THISACTOR].XVEL XVEL // cost
	setactor[THISACTOR].hitag 0 	
	setactor[THISACTOR].lotag 0 
	setactor[THISACTOR].XVEL 0 	
enda

useractor notenemy SHOP_TRIGGER
	
	ifvarvare BUY_ME hitag nullop
	else
	{		
		ifvare BUY_ME 0
		{
			ifvare char_sel 2 { findnearactor LINK 128 TEMP }
			ifvare char_sel 3 { findnearactor ZELDA 128 TEMP }
			ifvarn TEMP -1
			{	
				setvar BUY_ME 2
			}
		}
		
		ifvare BUY_ME 2
		{
			ifhitspace 
			{
				setvarvar BUY_ME lotag
			}
		}	
		
		ifvarvare BUY_ME lotag
		{
			setvarvar TEMP XVEL
			subvar TEMP 1
			ifvarvarg rupies TEMP
			{
				getactor[THISACTOR].x MX
				getactor[THISACTOR].y MY
				getactor[THISACTOR].z MZ
				subvar MZ 3
				espawnvar BUY_ME
				setactor[RETURN].cstat 0
				setactor[RETURN].x MX
				setactor[RETURN].y MY
				setactor[RETURN].z MZ
				setvarvar BUY_ME hitag
				subvarvar rupies XVEL
				sound RUPEE5SND
			}
		}
		
		ifvarvarn BUY_ME hitag setvar BUY_ME 0
	}
	
enda
	

[eGraphics]

Hey any update on this MOD? I'm working on the world map to same game and I would like to help.