Change color(s) of blocks used in random blocks?

Hey!

Me again. Thanks for all the help so far! I think my game is coming along quite nicely!

I have a new question:

Is it possible to make the custom blocks in the Endless Runner template be built from different color blocks? As you can see, right now all my blocks are green.

Is there a way for the big blocks to be built out of a random array of colored blocks? Some blue, some yellow, some green, etc?

Thanks! <3

Use Tilemaps. Not a TiledBackground.

Use Tilemaps. Not a TiledBackground.

Thank you so much!

If I understand that correctly, I would "build" (in my graphics editor) a big Tilemap with all of my colored blocks already distributed, and then it would just build using that instead of the single block, right?

If that's the case, what changes, if any, do I need to make to the event that generates the blocks?

This is my event as it stands right now.

marcoscodas Do you want all the tiles to be unique, or just each platform of tiles to be a different color?

marcoscodas Do you want all the tiles to be unique, or just each platform of tiles to be a different color?

First off, cool handle angryscientist !

Secondly, I'm attaching a new screenshot to showcase what I mean:

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Is it possible?

Close to this.

But you will have a nested loop voor horizontal and vertical.

Where horizontal iterates from zero to tilemap.widht / size of the tile

and vertical iterates from zero to tilemap.height / size of the tile

Each tile in your graphics has a zero based index. Should read manual for Tilemaps.

marcoscodas I think 99Instances2Go has what you need. Also, glad you liked my handle. :p

Thank you 99Instances2Go! I'll give it a read and see what I can come up with. Much appreciated.

angryscientist, thank you!

For some reason I can't post my reply, so here's the pastebin of it. Please help 99Instances2Go or angryscientist ?

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/34xkvb8mfjazo ... .capx?dl=0

Stay out of trouble with this 1 little rule: Do not destroy&recreate when not absolutely necessarily.

99Instances2Go: Absolutely noted. You are an angel in the form of a meerkat. Thank you so much! I'll try to adapt this to my game.

Afraid it is the other way around. Adapt your game to the concept.

Your concept relays heavy on 'creating' new blocks.

As a result your logic will suffer from a known 'can't pick newly created objects ... how come ?' flawed flow.

The forum has this extensively covered.

https://www.google.be/search?q=scirra+n ... scirra.com

You have 2 options: Get familiar with it (heavy 4 new users) or avoid it (as is showed you).

99Instances2Go, noted! Starting from scratch it is, then!

Well, actually... I think I solved it by the simple expedient of replacing the small block with a bigger "tilemap" and making sure it only draws in measurements that result in full blocks being shown. Gotta solve some creating issues with measures, but it does work!

I don't think it will as efficient as your solution when running, 99Instances2Go, but it does save me a couple of days of work.