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3rd November, 2006 at 20:25:37 -

Remember how tons of bosses (among other things) in Sega Genesis and SNES games would be partly (arms, legs, long necks, tails, etc.) made out of chains of seperate objects, normally orbs? A couple examples of this effect that I can think of:

*The first boss in Sonic 1, Dr. Robotnik had a large wrecking ball on a chain
*I think the turtle boss in Contra 3 had its neck made out of this
*The mechs in Sparkster for Genesis had their arms and legs made out of these chains
*In Super Castlevania IV, Simon Belmont could swing his whip around like this
*I'm not 100% as I haven't played this in a while, but I think Mother Brain or Ridley from Super Metroid had this

I've never quite figured out how this would be done in MMF. Would anyone know how?

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3rd November, 2006 at 21:20:27 -

It's actually pretty easy. Just make a bunch of circles, then code them this way

Always - Set X Position to [(X of previous link + X of Next link)/2]

same thing for the Y.


 
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3rd November, 2006 at 21:20:38 -

The Platform Swing object by somebody or other is pretty much ideal for this.

 
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4th November, 2006 at 01:30:49 -

Thanks guys.

 
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5th November, 2006 at 10:16:02 -

Platform Swing was made by Vortex2 of Klikacademy.com.

 
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5th November, 2006 at 14:11:24 -

There's also an Orbit Object for MMF specifically for this sort of thing.

 
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