Frozen Particles and Players

Well i've been doing more work on my battle system. setting it up for overlapping character/enemy turns similiar to how things are done in the grandia series.

the battle is in semi-real time, with pausing in time for characters commands. everything except the active character freezes in place while characters are making their decisions. so when the command is made it appears as though it was an instant decision making process.

Oh, of course the camera is exempt from freezing.. so it's free to move around as needed.

This allows you to make better desicions. You're able to see enemies on an attack approach to you or your buddies. in a later step i'll make it where you can cancel attacks of enemies.


I've got particles and shapebases under my time freezing control :) I may work on other objects, but anything that's derived from gamebase should be able to be frozen just as easily.


4 frozen fireball engulfed enemies



Seriously.. That HAS to hurt



Fire Bad! Fire BAD!



Now it seems i have combo magics :)




As i stated, all characters pause in ther tracks... even if they are in the air :)



I use ALOT of schedules for this system so i had to write sorta a schedule wrapper to keep track of all active scheduels and stop them and restart them when i do my ActionPauses.

when restarting them, it will of course start back with whatever time remaining it had when it was stopped.


Anyhow that's enough for now. Any questions?