another brainstorming thread: ideas for timed "screen cycling"

1/4 tile at a time, also used screens for a dive link makes from a high cliff, and did a wire span like the skylift that uses a hand dolly.
just a little less trouble then combo cycling.

Screen cycling or screen scrolling?

Think animated combos, on a macro sense. Instead of a combo or tile in a series animating, the entire screen animates. when you step on a screen, you stay put, as well as any monsters, but the map data changes to the next one beside it, and then to the next, or goes back. This would be good for allowing more complex animation, without making very messy combos, plus it would allow for more syncronized animations. It could also be so that each layer has it's own cycle, so you could easily put scrolling mist or clouds, without out the hassle it currently is. Heck, if you can then program a layer to follow a sprite we would most certainly be able to do Zelda 3 type bosses.

screen scrolling or cycling?
hum.....

There are a series of about 40 screens tied together by insta warping at 3 tic intervals, sort of like the "flip through the deck of cards to watch the old movie" thing.

through all that Link is made invisible and just the screen graphics proceed until the last screen where he is made available again to the player.

Since it would shoot across the map if the subscreen was shown, I guess you could call it scrolling, but at the same time it works just like cycling combos, just using full screens instead on single combos, so I guess I'll let Webster give it a name 😊

Wall Crumbling:
You come to a giant wall of rock with one key "rock" in the middle. Hitting the key rock with a hammer starts a chain of destruction, where the rest of the wall crumbles away bit by bit.

Make an combo of solid rock, and a animated combo of crumbling rock (the first frame of which matches the solid combo). After triggering the secret by hitting the first rock, warp to the first screen in the sequence. The first row of rocks is now made of your crumbling combos. Wait just enough tics for the combo to finish animating and warp to the next screen, where the next row of rock is now crumbling combos... etc, until the whole wall is gone. You could animate this on layers 3-4 (Place a sprite of Link with the Hammer down in the place where you hit the original rock), and freeze Link's position by filling layer 0 with unwalkable combos, so when the animation stops, he's in the same spot.

cycling combos don't work on layers

He is not using cycling combos, but animated combos. he said that you put solid "combos" around link so that link does not move and he is in the same place upon the ending of the sequence. but how would one make this a "one time" event? That will be difficult since a secret is already used on that one screen. :blah:

Snort_2000 wrote:He is not using cycling combos, but animated combos. he said that you put solid "combos" around link so that link does not move and he is in the same place upon the ending of the sequence. but how would one make this a "one time" event? That will be difficult since a secret is already used on that one screen. :blah:

That would be a good idea. Why don't you make a mockup .qst file and then allow other people to mess around with it? It will help out the ZC community alot with your little discovery. 😊

Sure, but it'll have to be some time tomorrow... I have class tonight.

Don't worry, take all your time. I will like to see how your idea comes out. hey, who knows, I may even expieriment with it myself tonite. 😛

one problem you'll have is the animations don't start when secrets are triggered, they will show at whatever point they are in their cycle when you trigger, so the wall may be half way down by the time you see it, or even all the way down.

Freedom wrote:one problem you'll have is the animations don't start when secrets are triggered, they will show at whatever point they are in their cycle when you trigger, so the wall may be half way down by the time you see it, or even all the way down.