Mario in Godot

Refaire Super Mario World dans le game-maker "Godot" ... j'ai envie de dire à la fois "tout ça" et "rien que ça". Pourtant, l'idée de Wye n'est ni de proposer un Mario World Studio ni son Mario World 3. L'idée, c'est de comprendre le fonctionnement du jeu d'origine en le reconstruisant dans un nouvel outil tout en apprenant l'outil lui-même. Et ça, ça me parle. C'est le genre de bouquin que je dévorerais mais ici, ce sont des vidéos youtube.

"In Super Mario World, Mario was considered fully underwater if both his head and body interaction points are touching water tiles. [...]

That's the kind of things you can learn by watching Wye's series on re-making Super Mario World in Godot, and learn how to use Godot in the process

I've been following the videos roughly since episode 1 or 2, but as Wye now address the water physics, I cannot just remain a silent watcher. I've spent too much time working on water physics myself, and I need to compare the approaches. Of course, Mario isn't using the "cando"  function. Instead, interaction with the world are guided by "interaction points" which remember the type of tile they're on. So for instance, 

"When Mario body is in the water but not his head, that means he is near the surface."

Du point de vue des collisions avec le niveau, Mario n'est pas une boîte. Il est ... une sorte de constellation de points qui ont chacun leur préférence sur le type de terrain 8 en tout, mais dont certains ne seront évalués que dans certaines conditions. Pour déterminer s'il faut nager ou non, ce sont par exemple ce sont les tests du milieu et de la tête qui entrent en ligne de compte. Et pour déterminer si on peut sauter hors de l'eau ? Bin il faut que le corps de Mario soit dans l'eau mais sa tête hors de l'eau. On évite en fait les complications du type "la surface est à la fois de l'air et de l'eau" dans lesquelles je me suis embarqué.

And only when Mario is near the surface is it possible to jump out of water ... and only if pressing UP in addition to pressing the JUMP button ...

The concept of interaction points comes from the disassembly of SMW itself and was discussed in an earlier video. They replace hitboxes when it comes to interacting with the world and there are 8 of them for Mario. But as usual with 16-bit games, not all points are tested on every frame. What is interesting is that rather than testing e.g. "left side" when moving left, the game tests "left side" only if the left side is "smaller" than the right side, as a way to detect "new" things, assuming that what covers most of Mario's box has been tested in the past. "When Mario is on the right side of a tile, the two points on the left are ignored" is possibly a better way to describe what happens, indeed ^^".

I'd be curious to find out to what extent that keeps working where your level grid isn't exactly one hero wide ...

edit: while you need to *press* the jump button to make Mario jump when he hits the ground from a fall, you just need to be *holding the button down* when reaching the water surface to trigger "jump out of water".  (from the "extra bits")