Posted April 19, 2025 by The Sauce
YO! whats up! Just wanted to drop in and do a mini announcement/update on what I've been doing. . . for anyone wondering I wanted to make this in video format however after discoveries and other life stuff I decided to just do flat out announcements across all what I make. Most importantly the template releases.
################################################################# NEW TEMPLATES COMING UP! ###########################################################
This will have key stuff for creating point and click adventure games, while keeping the ease of creating and placing entities in developers created areas. As of now it's in its early stages, but I'd say its 50% close to being at v0.1. ## Heres a test with my bot stuff, I thank God because this is an old vid of the movement test and the camera jitters, as of posting, I found and fixed that issue. so W. ## After I started working on a side project (phone game idea that I wanna sell on itch.io/playstore/and hopefully ios store) I figured out how to make the follower follow the created lines, even follow branched off points too. This template is specifically for route following, you draw route and the follower follows.
Simple as that, so basically it will find the fastest route to the closest point on the line to your mouse. I also added options for devs to link routes to renpy buttons so that when you click a textbutton or a imagebutton, and that point is tied to that button, on click the follower will travel to that point. This primarily is geared towards map screens adding an extra omph! to it. But if your creative can be used for so much more. This one is basically done just need to do more testing and after I'll make an announcement, so stay tuned.
################################################################# 2DSS PRO NEWS! ########################################################### Cool thing about working on the above templates is that I find more fixes and things to add, for example in a future update, I plan on adding route lines for npcs, so you can give specific npcs routes to follow, this will be setup to be used for cutscenes and even camera controls for cutscenes. I do have a layout for the next 2D Side Scroller Pro in Renpy updates. They aren't as grandiose, but this is a setup for those bigger updates. Here are the features that I'll be fixing or adding to 2DSS Pro v0.2 ______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
The future updates will have bigger additions as of now gotta do baby steps before I start making these big jumps.
################################################################# 2DSS LITE HELP! ########################################################### I am also announcing that I will be taking in bug reports for 2D Side Scroller Lite in Renpy fixing bugs that are present in the current iteration of the lite version of the 2DSS Lite. Look in the description to see how to send bug reports. Thank you for your help!
################################################################# FINAL WORDS ###########################################################
Uh! yeh a lot is happening behind the scenes, I hope I can churn these updates/templates out very fast, but they'll be out soon enough. Thank you for your guys support I appreciate it :) Talk to ya soon - The Sauce