LASEReyes

[Individualised]

They look like stalagmites, but if you're self-conscious about someone making a ha-ha, try making them skinnier, or give them a similar pattern to the walls.

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After playing with it some more, it seems to help to keep the "bands" very thin; too thick and it starts looking like swirly ice cream.

Honestly I think those look more like ice cream than the original's :P Never occurred to me they could look like... you know

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[Jedi QuestMaster]

try making them skinnier, or give them a similar pattern to the walls.

I followed your advice, but I ended up making them much more rocky-looking than the walls.

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Mockup:

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Wow, that's good! I was also planning on reusing these tiles for an ice cave.

[Mazin]

I've made a test rom to try to make the laser using background tiles.

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It's instantaneous unlike the one in your demos, but that wouldn't add that much more complexity.

There's more than enough vblank time for 4 lasers, their attribute updates, and for other things like the bombs or pushable blocks. This looked like it was going to be a lot more complicated than it actually was!


I also want a chocolate stalagmite now.

[Jedi QuestMaster]

I've made a test rom to try to make the laser using background tiles.

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I just realized--I don't know how lasers are going to overlap. Whether they cancel each other out or go right through each other, when two lasers are near enough, they occupy the same tile space before they intersect

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I'm already using 53 tiles for lasers. I can't imagine how many more are needed for every combination of overlap.

On another note, maybe the floor color shouldn't share a sprite color that's also an outline:

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Or does this still work? Regardless, I made another underground palette:

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What you think? Does this look darker?