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Support / Dynamic Asset Loading and code wise manipulation
« on: January 26, 2012, 10:41:28 pm »
Hello there. I bought a copy of 2D Toolkit to evaluate for a project that we're going to be working on... it's a multi-player game that will be 2D and involve quite a lot of customization and artistic variances between players characters.
I'm looking at the toolkit, and I like the editors and I like the simplicity and power, and the efficiency on mobile platforms for draw calls (batching is good.
).
One thing that's going to be a critical make or break for us is being able to dynamically load content (sprites, animations, etc...) as players enter and leave various areas of the game (its an MMO style game). Because of the crafting, customization of character look and feel is going to be a high priority. To that end, we'll need to be able to swap out art pieces on animated sprites, weapons will be swapped out on charactesr in the game, etc.
It's infeasible to load all the possible permutations of these combinations ahead of time into one scene (for that matter, the scenes themselves will need to be dynamically loaded via asset bundles and downloaded and instantiated. Also, the various monsters and such will need to be such that we can programmatically instantiate them (not have them hard coded in the scene). In fact, very little will be hard coded into the scene.
I know that the emphasis of the toolkit is heavily on easy editing, and a lot of it gears towards having your assets in the scene. My question is... has someone been able to achieve what we're asking with 2D toolkit in a manner that's flexible, maintainable, and efficient? Or if not, does the developer(s) have some insight on to how this may work. If it's really trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, we're not shy about going with a different solution (and we can always consider the toolkit for a different game in the future, since we bought it already). But in evaluating this great toolkit, I definitely want to know how easy it is to dynamically create sprites and programmatically manipulate them at runtime based on user settings...
Thanks!!
Tim
I'm looking at the toolkit, and I like the editors and I like the simplicity and power, and the efficiency on mobile platforms for draw calls (batching is good.
).One thing that's going to be a critical make or break for us is being able to dynamically load content (sprites, animations, etc...) as players enter and leave various areas of the game (its an MMO style game). Because of the crafting, customization of character look and feel is going to be a high priority. To that end, we'll need to be able to swap out art pieces on animated sprites, weapons will be swapped out on charactesr in the game, etc.
It's infeasible to load all the possible permutations of these combinations ahead of time into one scene (for that matter, the scenes themselves will need to be dynamically loaded via asset bundles and downloaded and instantiated. Also, the various monsters and such will need to be such that we can programmatically instantiate them (not have them hard coded in the scene). In fact, very little will be hard coded into the scene.
I know that the emphasis of the toolkit is heavily on easy editing, and a lot of it gears towards having your assets in the scene. My question is... has someone been able to achieve what we're asking with 2D toolkit in a manner that's flexible, maintainable, and efficient? Or if not, does the developer(s) have some insight on to how this may work. If it's really trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, we're not shy about going with a different solution (and we can always consider the toolkit for a different game in the future, since we bought it already). But in evaluating this great toolkit, I definitely want to know how easy it is to dynamically create sprites and programmatically manipulate them at runtime based on user settings...
Thanks!!
Tim