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Microsoft announces office 2019 for Windows and Mac

Microsoft is releasing Office 2019 for Windows and Mac today. The company is rolling out Office 2019 for Mac and Windows, giving you a “subset” of the upgrades that have come to Office 365 ProPlus in the past three years.

The update is designed for businesses and consumers that haven’t opted into Microsoft’s Office 365 service with monthly feature updates.

Word now has a Focus Mode (on Mac) to…

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A quick guide on parallax and collision mapping.

This guide is going to be a bit more focused on RPG Maker, but some of the concepts will apply to anyone who working with a 2D RPG or top down viewpoint game. I got a pretty good response last week and there were some good discussions on it so I decided to post again. This one will be a little bit more technical than the last.

Anyways, let’s talk about parallax mapping and collisions. Parallax mapping is a common term among RPG Maker folks and it refers to making maps in a photo editing software and bringing it into the program instead of using the in-engine map creator. I am not going to get super in depth about parallax mapping in the RPG Maker engine, but here is a pretty good tutorial on how to get started with it. Using a map from my game GLITCHED, let’s take a look at the parallax versus the ground image.

The top image is our ground image. Everything on the map will be below our character and NPCs. Note that it’s fine to build the entire map including the things that will be above you. The reason being is that your parallax layer will sit above your character. There are a few different scripts and plugins out there for RPG Maker to get parallax images working. I currently use Kaus’s Ultimate Overlay as it supports the ability to have multiple layers above for things like lighting and fog. Be careful when choosing what goes above you character and think about the space that objects take up. Things like the tops of trees and some space to move behind houses makes the world seem to have a little bit more depth.

Picking out what goes above you goes right along with the collision that objects on the map have. When looking at the tree above, the top of the tree goes above the character which makes sense based upon the view. However, our character shouldn’t be able to walk through the stump and that’s where collisions come in.

Collisions are a huge part of 2D RPGs and video games in general. Most RPG Maker users will never really have to deal with them as they simply use grid based movement. Thanks to a great plugin by Quasi, which you can check out right here, RPG Maker is able to support non-grid movement and collision boxes. I believe this one of the best scripts out there for breaking away from the traditional RPG Maker mold. Pixel based movement is much more powerful and better for feel of player movement than grid based movement. On the other hand, grid based movement is much more simple as you are about to find out. On the right in the image above, you can see our parallax and collision box for our little tree. The purple parallax will go above our character and will let you move underneath it while the red box is a collision box our character cannot pass through. Notice that these two elements need to work together in defining the depth of the map. The stump of the tree should feel like it is sitting on the ground and that as it goes up it doesn’t actually take up the space where the leaves are since it would be above our character. Top down view can sometimes be confusing, so make sure you are playing other RPGs with the same perspective to get an idea on how they deal with viewpoint problems. When mapping out collisions for a whole map, there are a couple things to consider. Take a look at our entire collision map put along with our ground and parallax map.

So here is a rough draft version of our collisions. There are a few things here that could definitely be changed or improved but this gets at the basic idea. Note the purple is going to be above the character and the red is collision like in the tree example.  Something to improve on could be pixel precision. Instead of using boxes for objects like the tree stump or fences, making pixel perfect collisions might make it feel nicer to move around. For the walls of the map, I do prefer boxes to the exact form of the cliff or wall. The reason being is it just makes it simpler and smooth to walk along a wall when there aren’t little nudged making your character freak out or get stuck. It makes setting up the map a bit simpler as well. Pixel precision doesn’t always work and sometimes makes it feel clunky, but luckily we have smart move. Smart move will let us be pushed slightly to the side in order to pass by an object if we are within a couple pixels of making it past the object. Here is a quick example of it in motion: