Alternatives to Falling Blocks without Physic

Hi pals!

I would like to have a special solution how to alternate falling blocks and they stop falling if they hit to each block without using physics behavior.

Thanks!

Bullets with gravity and maybe some bounce seems like a good start

I making a puzzle where the blocks fall when some blocks were destroyed, sometimes i use custom movement behavior or y+ every tick. It was bad practice, then im looking best practices to mantain performance for mobiles without Physic.

Could you store your blocks in an array , when a block is removed then step "up" through the array setting these blocks to fall ?

Or if you give each block sprite an x and y variable then could you select the required x sprites with a condition (hope these are the right terms)

Been playing with the above idea

dl.dropbox.com/u/143636437/temp/gem1.capx

RamPackWobble, it's quite good BUT how do you animate falling blocks?

dl.dropbox.com/u/143636437/gemstest/invaders.capx

Having problems getting my head around the bullet behavior (thought it had a bug but it looks like I was wrong (again)). might need a custom movement system...

Anyway, might point you in directions you hadn't thought about...although they could be the wrong directions !

dl.dropbox.com/u/143636437/gemstest/invaders.capx

Having problems getting my head around the bullet behavior (thought it had a bug but it looks like I was wrong (again)). might need a custom movement system...

Anyway, might point you in directions you hadn't thought about...although they could be the wrong directions !

Nice! Sometimes is not perfect at all, but it's still working like a charm! Thanks <img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

RamPackWobble i posted a .capx what i'm having performance problem with CocoonJS.

http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic63583_post390047.html#390047

Your .capx seems a nice solution, but im figuring out how to keep correct positions, if you keep clicking any blocks and they get wrong position.

Btw, a reference

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/2Z2H1km.png" border="0" />

A couple of ideas...

Set some flag that says if anything is falling which is checked before you can start any more from starting to fall

I don't have the code with me, so from memory - when you touch an invader/gem it goes through the ones above and sets them to fall a set distance from their present y pos. I think the problem is that if , while falling, it is set to fall again. Some instance variable that says this this is where I am already falling to so add any further falling distance to this and this new (total) y position is where I will stop falling.

OK fired up the old laptop and went with option two.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/143636437/invaders/index.html

capx updated.

I solved this for my WIP game by using easeTween, Array of UID's. It's a bit complicated and until I finish the game I'm a bit reluctant to share capx :)

When each instance is created I assign it to the corresponding Column ( I use floor(sprite.X / sprite.Width) to get 0-10 for 10 columns for example ) and store the UID's for each in a 2D array (GameBoard). When you remove an instance it's deleted from the array (set value to 0)

To drop them I just add them and drop them by using easeTween(relative) setting Target X to (GameBoard.Height - ColumnCount) * Sprite.Height ( (10 - 2 )*80) . Setting easeTween with an easeBounceOut makes them look like physics objects too.

When you remove a assets I call a function UpdatePositions which just run's through all the populated GameBoards UID's and counts how many blank spots are below. Repeat GameBoard.Height - Sprite.GameBoardY (repeats down 10-8) and then if Array's Spot is 0 add 1 to MoveAmount else do nothing.

Then at the end it just move the Sprite it was testing by MoveAmount * Sprite.Height using easeTween again.

Maybe if I get some time I can produce a stripped down capx to show.

RamPackWobble you only added some function when you click a block while is falling, it doesn't destroy.

Here comes an annoying issue, if you try to destroy a group of blocks, they won't fall. Also i used your codebase, it breaks the game when i tried to spawn another from above and it goes wrong position, it's overlapping to next 4 blocks down.

Are you thinking to use comparing 2 values Block.Y and Block.Height? i tried it, but i couldn't figure out.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/76227787/wrongfallgroup.capx

labithiotis Oh really? I have a question, when some blocks were destroyed (including destroyed single block and multiple blocks) and spawn another blocks from above then fall, would it work?

Anyways, i created a thread if you want help me, in return you get a reward

http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic63653.html

You can replace a workaround in event number 10, it shouldn't be collision check