How to create a terrain like in the game "worms"?

[Kcee]

No offence but this topic is only meant for people who has seen and played WORMS game. How do I create that type of terrain or platform?

[ITomi]

Hello Kcee!

In my game in preparation I use an array to build up the levels and I read out the values from this array with a loop.
For example:

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int i,j,xplace,yplace;
char level[2][30] =
{
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1},
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1},
};

In this array 0 means nothing, 1 means a piece of wall. And you can build up the level with a loop:

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for(j = 0; j < 2; j++)
{
  for(i=0; i < 30; i++)
  {
             switch (level[j][i])
             {
              case 1: CreateActor("wall", "wall", "no parent", "no path",xplace,yplace,true);
              break;
             };
             xplace+=wall.width;
  };
  xplace-=wall.width*i;
  yplace+=wall.height;
};

I think, you can build up a terrain or platform similar way in your game, just "draw" your terrain in an array.

[Kcee]

Awesome. Thanks.

[juansimat]

You can accept the answer from ITomi if it's sufficient for you. I played the first game and the way to achieve the same effect you'll need to draw the landscape with canvas and implement your own bitmap buffer also to reinvent the per-pixel collision. For the bitmap, I think someone already tried/acomplished that in the forums. The collision could be problematic, but maybe with boundaries you can reduce overhead.
In conclusion, if it's possible to do in gameEditor, it's a hard work.

[ITomi]

And I think, you can replace the actors (e.g. wall) with simple pixels, if you use the putpixel() command. But I don't know, how does works the drawing commands: for example I couldn't light a pixel with it

[juansimat]

And I think, you can replace the actors (e.g. wall) with simple pixels, if you use the putpixel() command. But I don't know, how does works the drawing commands: for example I couldn't light a pixel with it

It depends on the quality / number of actors. If you reduce the size, the monopixel actor count can be huge and overload.