"Fireball" skill development

KoderFPV

Hi folks!

I really enjoy playing with rpgjs, it is the coolest framework I ever used, among anuglar, react and vue 🙂

However, I have lots of experience with typescript, but not so much with 2d game development, and I ask for little assistance.

I would like to develop, arcane bolt skill. After player hits a button, the arcane bolt should go straight forward for some distance. If the bolt collides with another player it should take some HP off this player.

I already created a sprite, with animation. I also created the event, and the bolt appeared on the screen and then disappeared. However, I cannot move it anywhere. I tried to use moveTo function, but it does not work. The fireball not moving anywhere, but it "shakes" on the tile.

What I have done so far:

Spritesheet:
https://gist.github.com/KoderFPV/3f068eda49d0ef908e569ba382d304bf
Skill:
https://gist.github.com/KoderFPV/3ecf7e4fe8c01d557f21c8d1802561c8
Event:
https://gist.github.com/KoderFPV/c41089027529eed36d11c436c34577cf
And finally, I use skill on button press:
https://gist.github.com/KoderFPV/c01140ffb8788e8fadac0ffff2b3d380

And here is the final video:
https://jumpshare.com/s/HxRp7SWjeo0m7sMHFOcZ

Is it a good direction?

dominx99

KoderFPV

Hello,
I made an example for your case, here is the video: https://imgur.com/yA7aBqy
and here is code example (not documented yet, I am waiting for PlayGround 😀)

I tested your code and I suppose that shaking and not moving the bullet is caused by adding z: 1000 to the dynamic event creation. I remember that @Samarium once said it's buggy for now.

So:

I removed this z: 1000

Changed ArcaneBoltEvent.ts

this.showAnimation("arcaneBoltSprite", 'default');

this.setGraphic(...)

Run event.showAnimation('graphic-name', 'animation-name') when the event is already created in the skill onUse method
Removed checking for tilesCollision & shapeCollision (I didn't check if it have impact on it)

KoderFPV

@dominx99 Thanks a lot, you are right. it seems that z index was a reason why that happened.
I don't need Z anyway for this moment.

Yes, it would be a great example for the playground!