By playing around with particle systems, you can create a variety of different spells that do different effects.
You can easily create a fire variant of our blizzard spell by changing the color of the particle system to red:
The out val of the color changed to red
Try the following exercises:
- Lightning spell: Create a lightning spell by using the beam particle. Follow Zak's tutorial for an example of how beams are created and shot in a direction, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywd3lFOuMV8&list=PLZlv_N0_O1gYDLyB3LVfjYIcbBe8NqR8t&index=7.
- Forcefield spell: A forcefield will deflect attacks. It is essential for any player. Suggested implementation: Derive a subclass of
ASpellcalledASpellForceField. Add a bounding sphere to the class, and use that in theASpellForceField::Tick()function to push the monsters out.
What's next? I would highly recommend that you expand on our little game here. Here are some ideas for expansion:
- Create more environments, expand the terrain, add in more houses and buildings
- Add quests that come from NPCs
- Define more melee weapons such as, swords
- Define armor for the player, such as shields
- Add shops that sell weapons to the player
- Add more monster types
- Implement loot drops for monsters
You have literally thousands of hours of work ahead of you. If you happen to be a solo programmer, form working relationships with other souls. You cannot survive in the game marketplace on your own.
It's dangerous to go alone—Take a friend.
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