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1. xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 07:57:01 JST xianc78

   Not the breakout clone but I've got animated sprites to work in SFML.

   Also, I forgot that I have the #gamedev hashtag featured in my profile and I haven't used it, so here you go.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 08:56:23 JST xianc78

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     Got a basic tile system working.

     #gamedev #sfml

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 09:50:43 JST xianc78

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     Created collision detection with solid tiles.

     #gamedev #sfml

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 12:49:01 JST xianc78

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     Also, the tile map wasn't from a file, array, or anything like that. It's just a simple nested for loop with an if statement to create the cross of solid tiles.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 03:21:01 JST xianc78

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     I've added projectiles that the player can shoot. I was originally just going to make a simple maze game but I got carried away after getting a hand with SFML.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 08:08:23 JST xianc78

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     Player now has an attack "animation".

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 11:28:40 JST xianc78

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     Now I have an actual tile map.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 07:14:52 JST xianc78

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     I've added exit tiles. It just ends the game because I don't have it programmed to have multiple levels yet.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 04:58:40 JST xianc78

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     So it turns out that I can't have multiple levels without major reconstruction of the code. C# spoiled me with it's lack of import/include statements and Python was dynamically typed which meant I didn't have to declare the object type right away, so now I have to deal with avoiding recursive includes.

     Ugh!

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 07:56:04 JST xianc78

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     Got a second level. I learned that if you just include a blank class definition of a dependency in the header file and then include the actual header of the dependency in the source file, then you can avoid recursive includes.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 11:37:57 JST xianc78

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     Now there are three levels, all of which are derivatives of each other.

     #gamedev #sfml

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 05:41:15 JST xianc78

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     Got a camera to work. It's manual but if I plan to actually finish this game, I would probably have it scroll based on the player's position and movement. You can also see that there are tiles outside of the camera bounds. Those were left in by mistake.

     SFML has a built in camera called sf::View. It's pretty weird. I'm used to having a 2D camera origin being at the top-left corner just like sprites, but the origin is actually in the center which is something I need to get used to.

     I mean, it's kind of justified because it also has support for rotation and zooming (things I have never used). I'm just used to implementing my own camera system and just drawing sprites based off of their positions and the camera offsets, but that not an option here because sprites are automatically drawn based on their position (no manually drawing here).

     #gamedev #sfml

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 06:51:07 JST xianc78

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     >sprites are automatically drawn based on their position (no manually drawing here).

     Probably should clarify that. Sprites are manually drawn by calling the sf::RenderWindow.draw() method. It's just that sprites automatically have a set position and you can only draw based on that.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 05:39:32 JST xianc78

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     Now the camera vertically scrolls with the player's movement. Horizontal camera movement hasn't been implemented yet.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 06:14:41 JST xianc78

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     Horizontal scrolling with player movement has now been implemented.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • Nekobit :malloc: (nekofag@rdrama.cc)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 06:28:37 JST Nekobit :malloc:

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     @xianc78 let a little bit of his head off the hitbox (separate sprite dimensions from hitbox dimensions in code) and it makes it 3d esque
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   • Nekobit :malloc: (nekofag@rdrama.cc)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 06:28:39 JST Nekobit :malloc:

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     @xianc78 keep it up champ
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 06:39:06 JST xianc78

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     • Nekobit :malloc:

     @ne Changed that just now. Thanks for the tip. This kind of stuff was much easier in MonoGame because C# had built in getters and setters. C++ on the other hand, makes it a bit more cumbersome.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 09:43:17 JST xianc78

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     • Nekobit :malloc:

     @ne I also shaved off some pixels from the hitbox horizontally. I've noticed that Link's Awakening has smaller hitboxes than the sprites. It makes it much easier to fit the characters in 1 tile long corridors.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 12:25:21 JST xianc78

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     Created my first enemy. All it does is move down. It's hard-coded into the level (it's not in the level file). The octorok sprite is just a placeholder (if I even plan on releasing this).

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 13:36:38 JST xianc78

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     The enemy now has random movement, but no collision detection.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 04:27:11 JST xianc78

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     You can now kill the enemy. Deleting the object is so much different than what I'm used to. In C#, I could remove the object from its respective list within one of its method because it would be garbage collected. In C++ I have to delete the object outside of the object itself.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 04:41:26 JST xianc78

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     The enemy now has collision detection.

     #gamedev #sfml

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 11:40:42 JST xianc78

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     The player now knocks back when colliding with the enemy. And I've encountered a bug during this recording.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • EconomicHitman (economic_hitman@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 12:29:21 JST EconomicHitman

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     rape!
     @xianc78
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 06:17:45 JST xianc78

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     Player can now take damage. Game Over screen is just a white screen right now.

     Oh yeah, I've also fixed the bug, but I didn't feature that in this recording.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 10:58:58 JST xianc78

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     Enemy now has a death "animation" (single frame).

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 05:32:06 JST xianc78

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     I tried to test out increasing the health of the enemy, but I'm stuck with this annoying bug where the enemy dies in one hit no matter how much health I give him. I even tried giving him 1000000 hp and the result is still the same.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • Binkle (binkle@sleepy.cafe)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 05:37:32 JST Binkle

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     @xianc78 is the bullet colliding with the enemy multiple times? (causing damage being reapplied per frame)
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 05:37:32 JST xianc78

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     • Binkle

     @Binkle I've made it so that the bullet is deleted after the collision. I've also made it so that the enemy would be in a knocked back state on collision if they still have hp and the enemy can't take anymore damage while still in the knocked back state.

     I honestly don't know what's wrong.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 14:18:05 JST xianc78

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     I've fixed the bug, but now the enemy is left on the death animation if it dies. As you can see, the enemy is knocked back based on the direction it is facing, when it should be based on the velocity of the projectile (result of copying and pasting code from player's knockback).

     There is also a new problem in that I keep on getting segmentation faults. I don't know where they are coming from.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 04:36:15 JST xianc78

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     Fixed the segmentation fault and the death bug. Segmentation fault happened because there was an index that I forgot to set to 0. I'm used to C# where integers had the default value of 0 when declared as opposed to random values as it is in C++.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 02:58:27 JST xianc78

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     I've added keys, which can be used to open lockdowns that haven't been implemented yet.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 02:59:17 JST xianc78

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     *open locked doors

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 06:59:20 JST xianc78

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     I've added locked doors. Probably should create a better tile for them, but all tiles are placeholders (assuming I publish this game; this is merely me just getting used to object management in C++) as most sprites are from Zelda I and BS Zelda.

     #SFML #gamedev

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 03:56:27 JST xianc78

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     I've added a heart that increments HP by one.

     #SFML #gamedev

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 12:01:30 JST xianc78

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     Enemies are no longer hard coded into the map. They are now loaded from the map file. Ignore the enemy placement. It moved before I could take the screenshot. (My screenshot utility is probably delayed)

     The first two numbers defined the level width and height.

     The block of numbers are the tiles.

     Everything after that are objects. They are listed by object type and then the x and y coordinates.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:07:30 JST xianc78

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     Player position is now defined in the map file. The second line of numbers determines the player's x and y position (in tiles).

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 11:04:28 JST xianc78

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     Sound effects have been added.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 12:03:40 JST xianc78

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     Door now has a sound effect.

     I've also realized that the way I'm storing assets in RAM is inefficient (I've actually knew that since the beginning but I haven't bothered to fixed it). I need to implement an asset manager class and have each object store pointers to said assets. Right now, each object stores entire textures/sounds when they should be storing pointers instead.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • offset (offset@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 12:46:05 JST offset

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     your game looks very nice :)
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 12:47:01 JST xianc78

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     • offset

     @offset Thanks. I don't know if I intend on publishing it though. It's just me practicing object management. Previously, I used C# and MonoGame. C# is garbage collected, so I'm not really used to pointers and memory management.

   • offset (offset@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 13:16:06 JST offset

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     I just now read over your thread on this game and it looks like you're making great progress! That trick with the recursive step into a new floor must've been fun to figure out lol
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 03:41:34 JST xianc78

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     Added a basic hud.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 14:15:10 JST xianc78

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     Got HUD icons.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 08:51:34 JST xianc78

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     Added a second enemy class. This one takes two hits to kill, while the first one now only takes one hit to kill.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 12:01:15 JST xianc78

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     Added an actual health bar. I probably should move it before the key counter because it looks weird the way it is right now.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 02:43:22 JST xianc78

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     Rearranged the UI. The health bar is now on the left. Looks much more natural.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 12:08:05 JST xianc78

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     Create a life capsule, which increases your max hp and a new enemy that takes 3 hits to kill.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 04:15:44 JST xianc78

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     Replaced the Zelda tileset with my own. I even added an extra wall tile for forward-facing walls.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 07:05:23 JST xianc78

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     Replaced the wood tiles with charcoal colored ones. Wood didn't look good mixed with the metal-like walls.

     I've also changed the tile format for the levels. 1st digit is the tile type, while the 2nd digit is the tile that appears on screen. It broke compatibility with my level files, obviously, but it's worth it because now the tile maps are readable.

     Also, the first level you see in this video was just some sample output generated from a procedural generated cave algorithm on the roguebasin wiki. I just converted it to my level format. It kind of looks without a cave tileset though.

     http://roguebasin.com/index.php/Random_Walk_Cave_Generation

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 07:11:31 JST xianc78

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     *It kind of looks weird without a cave tileset though.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 07:15:56 JST xianc78

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     Here is the tilemap for the cave-like level.

     #SFML #gamedev

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 11:18:08 JST xianc78

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     I've changed the way how doors and keys work. Now you have colored locks and you need that colored key in order to unlock it (much like in Doom).

     #SFML #gamedev

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 11:23:03 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @xianc78 that's a very chip's challenge look
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 11:26:21 JST xianc78

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     • cool_boy_mew

     @coolboymew It was supposed to be just a simple maze game. I recently switched to C++ and SFML so I'm trying to get used to how they handle objects and everything, but I ended up getting carried away after getting used to the quirks, and now it's some dungeon crawling, top-down shooter.

     I've never played Chip's Challenge. That game was before my time. I've seen footage of it. Looks like some sort of roguelike.

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 11:29:12 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @xianc78 it's actually a puzzle game. The first one is free on Steam last I've seen. I wonder what a chip challenge like with action elements could be like
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 09:22:39 JST xianc78

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     • cool_boy_mew

     @coolboymew After seeing this video, I think I played a clone of this game. I had the PC version of Spongebob: Battle For The Bikini Bottom as a kid. It was nothing like the console versions and instead just a collection of minigames. One of the minigames involved navigating through the Chum Bucket in levels like this. It wasn't tile based though.

     https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=mB43U9YCRJc

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 09:26:52 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @xianc78 you should try it out, it's a pretty decent puzzler that somehow managed to maintain a community for decades
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 14:21:47 JST xianc78

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     Enemies can now drop keys if set to do so.

     I was also experimenting with tile colors. I thought a light blue/cyan would be an interesting color for the tiles. I was expecting a bathroom-like aesthetic but it ended up looking like an ice cave instead.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 11:26:19 JST xianc78

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     • The Lunar Fox System

     @lunarfox Fuck off, schizo.

   • The Lunar Fox System (lunarfox@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 11:26:20 JST The Lunar Fox System

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     @xianc78 Of course, the ableist gamedev chooses to color-code everything and make it inaccessible to colorblind people.
     
     -Cove
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 07:08:53 JST xianc78

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     Fixed the camera to make it center more on the player. It's not perfect, but it is a vast improvement.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 12:36:36 JST xianc78

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     Added chests where you can open to get keys. I need to add a sound and a "get item" animation for it though.

     #SFML #gamedev

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 02:12:41 JST xianc78

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     Created a small "animation" for when you open up the chest.

     #gamedev #SFML

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 04:40:06 JST xianc78

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     Fuck it. I'm shelving the dungeon crawler project, for now. I've underestimated the switch from C# to C++. The code is already a mess and I wasn't really planning on anything. This was always merely a practice game that I didn't intend to release but I got carried away.

     I'm going to work on another shmup but this time it will be a horizontal one.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 04:40:07 JST xianc78

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     Enemy randomly drops hearts (25% chance) if there is no drop item set to it.

     Getting footage of an enemy dropping took forever due to the low percentage.