Gameplay Elements 04 - Multiple Teleporters... more than 3

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Robbie
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Gameplay Elements 04 - Multiple Teleporters... more than 3

Post by Robbie » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:53 am

TELEPORTING

Just something else that might be of interest...

Sharon's latest & greatest Tic-Tac-Toe level & her use of 3 teleporters really got me thinking (for a change I hear you say).

The following is a little level with no particular purpose other than to look at what happens when you have more than 2 teleporters of the same colour & how they can be utilized in level creation.

And you can see what happens for yourself.

1. Entering into a teleporter will take you to the far-most teleporter to the right side of the level.

2. If there is more than 1 teleporter on the same vertical line on the far right, the lowest teleporter will be chosen.

3. Going back into that teleporter will take you to the next - either above if 2 above is true or otherwise the next teleporter to the left (and again the lowest if there is more than 1 teleporter on that vertical line).

4. Only these 2 teleporters are linked to each other. All other teleporters of the same colour will link as per (1) above.

And as per usual, multiple teleporters of a different colour act all in the same manner independantly of the other colours.

Interesting :shock: ? Useful :roll: ? Confused :? ?

Robbie :D

Just a quick ammendment esp. for those who have already downloaded the level. The second level is basically the same thing but arranged a whole heap clearer with a nice layout... you know, some trees, some mushrooms, fish, tic-tocs and the like :wink:

Also included are 5 messages covering the 4 points above - just so you don't have to look back to this posting to know what's going on.

1. is top left
2. is top right
3. is bottom left (split into 2)
4. is bottom right

For those of you here for the first time, download the GAMEELEMENTS04A.LEV & ignore the other - I posted it in haste - basically my doodling to see how things worked.
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Post by LinkyNStoof » Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:24 am

Thanks for the detective work! I briefly played around with what happens with multiple teleports when I first started with the level editor, but I have trouble figuring out exactly how the teleports are linked together and just kinda give up on it. Now it's clear.
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Post by SharonM » Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:32 pm

Okay Robbie,
I downloaded it and I'm going to check it out. It was "Don't Let Them Get You" by michi, I think, that had three of the same color first and gave me the idea. Credit where credit is due. :) I just couldn't get mine to work the way those did. This should help clear it up! :D Thanks for investigating it!
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Post by DiscGolfer » Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:19 pm

Well you saved me a lot of work. Thanks, again! I was fooling around with that last night, but got tired.
I hadn't quite figured out their "nature" yet. There was an obvious pattern, but I hadn't figured it out yet.
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