[Halloween]: Endless Graveyard

[combatking0]

This is my Endless Graveyard demo. It is in 25% of the resolution I wanted, and still it runs slowly. Maybe someone with a fast machine will see it run very quickly.

It is a paralax scroller, made in HTML and JavaScript. No music - enjoy!

[edit] I just tried it on my works machine and it runs too fast, so I have slowed it down. I'll redo the full-size version and see if that runs at a decent speed[/edit]

[edit] I have now added the full size version, for those with machines powerful enough to view it. [/edit]

[benny!]

Runs fine here. Nice work ck0! First Halloween entry !!! yeah ...

[Jim]

Dude, given my desperate(ly bad) effort for the javascript comp, this deserves some Karma.  Making anything happen in JScript is too much work, so this is excellent.  Good stuff!
Jim

[Shockwave]

Really nice to have something that rus in a browser and it works on Firefox too

[Rbz]

Works fine here, I'm using Firefox.

I only miss some spooky sound effects 

[rain_storm]

Nice one CK0, Well I dont know anything bout Java but if Jim is saying that its difficult to get something up and runnin then I respect the time and effort that you have put into this entry

[combatking0]

Thanks everyone!

Hopefully the edit above should be the final version.

Most of the time went into the artwork, but there was a lot of tweeking to be done with the timing.

[taj]

well done ck0, I agree with Jim, getting stuff up and running in JS - not easy at all. The scrolling effect is neat.

[ninogenio]

i really think this is great, good one ck0!

[p01]

rain_storm: This is JavaScript, not Java. These are completely different beasts.

combatking0: You're using foo.innerHTML = text.substr( start, end );. Seriously ? Please, pretty please check the {JS} Scrollers thread.

[edit] I just tried it on my works machine and it runs too fast, so I have slowed it down. I'll redo the full-size version and see if that runs at a decent speed[/edit]

[edit] I have now added the full size version, for those with machines powerful enough to view it. [/edit]

Animations MUST check the current time to make sure they run at the same speed on anywhere.

In your case it could be as simple as:

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$ = document.getElementById
function main()
{
var pps = 50
,pos = new Date().getTime()/1000*pps;

$('bgnd1').style.left = -( Math.round( pos   )%320 )     +'px';
$('bgnd2').style.left = -( Math.round( pos*2 )%320 )     +'px';
$('fgnd' ).style.left = -( Math.round( pos*3 )%320 )     +'px';
$('wtch' ).style.left = (( Math.round( pos*2 )%320 )-18) +'px';

$('txt'  ).style.left = -( Math.round( pos )%$('txt').offsetWidth ) +'px';
}

Hope that helps,

[combatking0]

Cheers p01, I'll refer to this in future when developing a text scroller.

[rain_storm]

Oops my bad, I thought Java and Javascript were just two ways of refering to the same language but now I know better 

[combatking0]

The people hosting my JavaScript Game Programming Course make that same mistake every year!

[Shockwave]

Some good Karma for p01 for the Javascript tip

[Tetra]

As limited as JS is you always seem to manage to make something pretty cool with it

[p01]

JavaScript is not that limited. There's a couple of JavaScript demos and intros with classic effects ( vector balls, scroller, twister, fire, water, bump, metaball, voxel landscape, fractal, starfield, ... ) and 3D effects ( raycasting, flat, gouraud, I even did some (low-res perspective correct mapping in gouraud )

[combatking0]

Wow, I never knew JS had that much graphic capability.

Is all of this in the W3C specification, or a special browser?

[p01]

all done in standard compliant browsers using standards as old as 10yo