How do I remember position of spawned object in next layout

Hey there,

I have a system where you can collect powerups, upon collecting these they will be displayed on the top right corner of the screen.

As shown here:

However, when I enter the next layout, all of these powerups are gone.. I gave them a persist behavior.

Here is a piece of the code:

As you can see, the position of the powerups is based on how many there are. So basically How do I make the game remember how many powerups there are, which animation frame each one has and the position there have.

why dont you just spawn them on start of layout based on the value of 'items' ?

You can use "Webstorage" to save collected items on the current layout and then reload them on the next layout that you want to go to.

Im not sure how to do that. Im trying something now, making variables for each powerup animation frame.

with three powerups avaiable it looks like this:

On collision with s_powerup ->

s_powerup animation frame = 1 -> add 1 to var.powerup_1

s_powerup animation frame = 2 -> add 1 to var.powerup_2

s_powerup animation frame = 3 -> add 1 to var.powerup_3

So nows the game knows how much of each powerups are collected, but I still don't know how I should make them to be displayed in the next layouts

Well if you make them a global object and have the same layer name in the next frame, theoretically they should persist in to it. Then it's just a matter of recreating them when someone reloads their save games.

Or you could even make the HUD a global layer and give the objects their own ID values and make them visible based on that.

corlenbelspar Wow thanks a lot dude! I didn't even knew global objects existed. It works perfectly now, I just had to make the s_powerup a global object Let's see if I can optimize my game even more now I know this

No problem. I would personally do the global layers method because it'd be a bit easier the way I'd do it but I say whatever works best for each project on a case by case basis. Both work either way.