working with water, tile layers
 

Okay, I have a few questions. Currently I am working on making the ability to dive, with realistic features for classic style servers.

I have a few questions on what might be the best approach. Currently I am having to make Tilelayer[0] have water tiles to make player swim.. then Layer 1 to have sand for what you see at the bottom.. and layer 2 to be the water you are diving under..



To accomplish this I am making player's alpha change. But I am not a big fan of this since the player becomes semi-transparent. Tho does begin to look like being "under" the water.

I am also changing the player.z to with plans that you will dive to your shadow..

For the whole alpha problem, keep the player alpha between 0.85 and 1, but adjust the red/green/blue values of the player to get a better effect. Also, you'll want to do this in a gani so all players will seem the same effect.

Players swimming with a alpha less then 1 should be completely invisable to other players. However to other swimming players with a alpha less then 1 they should be able to see them. And if at different depth's I was thinking of making players harder or easier to see.. or what do you think about making player's zoom smaller as it gets closer to bottom maybe?

hmm.. I know I am going to need alot of work with ganis. gani scripts let all players see the effect if im not mistaken. if i just have a dive variable tho i can have a script read each variable from the player and have each player determin how other players are drawn.. mixed with zoom you can create dynamic player sizes then

Now that I think of it why can't I just draw over my player with a gani.. or make part of the gani transparent? like a player of my player over my player. then make it blue with transparency.. seems like it should work, right?

Also I reconnected to the server and the level completly messed up.. mis drew itself and just totally messed up.. how can i fix/prevent this? Might be good to add I am using 5.3 not 5.1 for my graal version.

Had to delete my cache and somehow the level glitched to a single layer level.. weird.

also can i apply different tilesets to different layers?

video fixed, only post the id that comes after "watch?v=".

edit: why are you recording your screen with a videocamra? there are programs that can record your screen, you know..

Thank's for fixing that. Actually recording it with my phone.. :x iPhone 4.. and yes I do know there are programs but I don't have them and was just entirely to lazy to find any decent free ones. My phone has good enough quality for me most of the time.

He was referring to Graals video Capture I think?