Chicks Ahead - Cartoon style game for iOS

[werzar]

I mean, I am using parallax scrolling technique of course, I just asked why do you need a plugin for that?

The action itself at its base is quite simple right? Moving sprites to the left at a different speed.
Now, depending on your game, you might want to adjust Y position based on some global (or otherwise public) variable (in my case, the height of the bird) and you would have to define a simple mechanism to recycle objects (when the leftmost image has left the screen, bring it back to the right, and apply a new sprite to it if needed).

Why do you feel you need a plugin rather than just go ahead and implement on your own? Let me know if I can help.

Yes, you could help me if you want, I need to know the knowledge to implement that... I understand concept but I dont know how to start it.

[m4ko]

Ah I see. We will probably encounter the same issues with compressed backgrounds in our Unity-Streamed-Web-Project. You can see the compression artifacts on the orange slope around the cactus in the screenshot you posted.

I am interested to hear what caused the blurry "moving chick".

[DannyB]

Yea, I was assuming you meant those artifacts.
The lack of JPEG-like compression on iOS (where you can choose your balance between quality and size) was probably the top reason for my headache in the past 6 months...

Just a small correction to my previous statement - the chicks sprite sheets are 16 bit reduced, not "uncompressed".
I think I have used "uncompressed" only for the GUI elements. Everything else, 16 bit or compressed.

So I am now testing it further, and will report back. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[unikronsoftware]

Ah I see. We will probably encounter the same issues with compressed backgrounds in our Unity-Streamed-Web-Project. You can see the compression artifacts on the orange slope around the cactus in the screenshot you posted.

I am interested to hear what caused the blurry "moving chick".

Compression artefacts are going to be completely different on PC/Mac. DXT generally looks a lot better than PVRTC, but PVRTC occasionally does do a better job.

[DannyB]

These are better right (screens directly from the iPad)?
I mean, all look the same quality now as far as I can tell.


If so, then the problem was tricky.
All I did now is change the sprite sheets from 16 bit reduced to Uncompressed, committed, then changed back to 16 bit reduced and committed again...

Probably something internal in Unity / TK2D remembered this spritesheet as Compressed or some other lower quality settings.

[m4ko]

Yeah looks much better. But interesting "solution" ...

[DannyB]

Cool, thanks man.

Unfortunately, these "interesting solutions" happen quite a lot for me and would probably happen to many people using source control.
The combination of Unity + TK2D + Source Control is far from ideal and has problems. Luckily, you can almost always re-apply some rogue sprite sheet and be done with it.