2DSS - Road to Pro - #4 FINAL BEFORE RELEASE!

. . . *exhale* ok! (excuse the low res gif)

Yo wats up!
I felt like I was holding my breath since the last time I made a damn devlog, but heres a sneak preview, wanted it to be a suprise but with all the hassle this gave me, F@!K it. Ive added many things, changed many things, and now its close to being done, so damn close (.___.    )

Quick List of additions:
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-Area Editor - yes easy placement of entities for creating your worlds
- Parallax editor - yes yes you can edit the speed of the parallax, place the parallax images, and all that jazz
- Floor Mesh Creator - you can now corral and make unique shapes for the player to stay in, (this ones been a b@!ch)
- Player Editor - customize speed for your character and see your animations while moving
- Pre Organized Load Structure - simple folder structure so you can run the damn thing properly with no errors.
- SIngle Folder Install? - everythings in one folder, you can just add it to your project
(may vary depending on certain things needing to be added to your screens.rpy)
- Independent Camera System/ Speed System/ Other System ovehauls - somethings needed changes so I changed em
- More Things That I Can't Really Remember Because I'm Tired - so very tired :(

After release I'll probably start working on the guide, it has alot of notes inside the code itself, notes within all the folders, the guide will be the ultimate, very visual guide (or not depends on if anybody buys this  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ could be my biggest waste of time, who knows). 

I'll say this now and on release. THIS IS NOT UNITY OR UNREAL OR GODOT, IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON MAKING HIGH OCTANE ACTION THRILLERS WITH 100 IMAGES AND 100 LAYER PARALLAX IMAGES ALL ON SCREEN AT ONCE, IT WILL LAG LIKE A MOFO. This is for smaller scale side scrolling games. 

EDIT: Also to use theres a bunch of rules to make sure youll have a mostly bug free experience (if you know game development then there will be bugs). Also if you have not the best computer, this might not be for you, since the collision is somewhat framerate dependent even through I mostly separated it by 99% and some stutters can cause issues like phasing through the collision.

As a example, I tried running a simple version of my side scroller on a Surface Pro (ran like a slide show) terrible terrible performance. Just make sure your cpu can handle games of a decent caliber.

Just an early disclaimer. Oh also updated my list of things for after release to, but to be honest first release will be like ver 0.5 while after that (if I cant really think of things that are ultra necessary) will be the full 1.0. There wont be crazy overhaul updates after that 1.0v,

EDIT: I did realize this Pro version is more 2.5D Hmmmmmmm so I'll make a separate folder for a pure 2D version aka when you buy your buying 2 types of Side Scrolling for the price of one. This will have instead of a Floor Mesh Polygon (which is a requirement to make the player move in the 2.5D ver). This 2D ver will have lines you can create that make up the floor collisions. Aka making the floor movement dynamic, this will also come with actual gravity. In the 2D ver there be no vertical movement directly but I might add a jump button. More will be explained in the future.

I was thinking of the snippets idea but to be honest after setting up the area editor, too many variables to keep track of. Better to have the essentials and thats it. I have ideas for some snippets but theyll be smaller scale for people that really need it.

SO uh over all, be prepared. These additions also lead me to some cool discoveries (less discoveries and more hey I personally didn't know I could do that but some expert programmer would be like, "bruh, thats easy")

That's it for now, next post I do should be the release announcement. SO yeh!

Love, Peace and Chicken Grease
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- The Sauce