Sky Maze 3D

Thomas. · January 13, 2011, 06:41:28 PM

nice and addictive game

... I have some lags when ball crosses many boxes... my suggestion is, do control method like joystick

edit: and bigger, maybe farther from the edges

raft · January 13, 2011, 06:48:51 PM

Quote from: Thomas
nice and addictive game

thanks

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I have some lags when ball crosses many boxes

do you mean when collecting many diamonds in a row?

Quotemy suggestion is, do control method like joystick
edit: and bigger, maybe farther from the edges

can you please further explain this? the game already uses a soft joystick

Thomas. · January 13, 2011, 06:58:18 PM

my english is very limited... when I collecting many diamonds or go over many boxes... probably something with loading sound?...
to joystick: for example if I want to go forward I can just go "fast" or stop, nothing in between

raft · January 13, 2011, 07:25:30 PM

Quote from: Thomas. on January 13, 2011, 06:58:18 PM
when I collecting many diamonds or go over many boxes... probably something with loading sound?...

no, i think it's not sound. you can disable sound from options and try again.
i guess it's because of this: jPCT AE cant handle too many objects so as an optimization all diamonds are merged into a single one. when a diamond is consumed, its vertices are sent to a far place. but when this happens all vertices of merged object need to be uploaded again. details are in this thread. i guess this results in the lag.

@Egon can you please provide me a test jar that prints out how long uploading vertices take?

Quote from: Thomas. on January 13, 2011, 06:58:18 PM
to joystick: for example if I want to go forward I can just go "fast" or stop, nothing in between

i see. my first attempt was to make a control like that but it became too hard to control. many places in game requires fine control but such a control lacks it.

thanks for testing and suggestions

Thomas. · January 13, 2011, 07:34:05 PM

or sensors control in option

raft · January 13, 2011, 07:37:33 PM

many of my friends suggested it to me

but no, i dont think ball can be precisely controlled that way.

EgonOlsen · January 13, 2011, 10:56:16 PM

I tried to run it on the emulator (to see at least something to get an impression), but it failed saying that the emulator doesn't support multi-touch...

raft · January 13, 2011, 11:01:09 PM

ah, there is check if device is capable of multi-touch. i couldn't run it within emulator too. i've disabled the check, please re-download it

EgonOlsen · January 13, 2011, 11:16:02 PM

Thanx. It looks pretty good in the emulator given it's limited capabilities...but it's hardly playable at 5fps and without multi-touch. But i'm sure that it's pretty nice on a real device. Great work!

raft · January 13, 2011, 11:18:01 PM

thanks

I can't wait you playing it on a real device and comment about it..

Thomas. · January 14, 2011, 01:34:12 AM

In level 9 is some problem with controlling... or just very hard difficult.

raft · January 14, 2011, 01:41:40 AM

come on, if you had passed level 6, level 9 is a piece of cake

btw, do you still experience the lag? if so on which levels?

Thomas. · January 14, 2011, 01:56:03 AM

Really in level 9 is issue with controls... I feel lags just in level 0, others so far ok

raft · January 14, 2011, 02:00:23 AM

may it be direction lock is enabled? you should see the image below in upper right. if not, touch it till you see it.

Thomas. · January 14, 2011, 02:07:09 AM

I know about it, I had to try everything

... but in level 9 is rotated controls 90 degrees, just you try it