Here's a hard one...

Is it possible (and if it is, how can it be done?) to have an object follow a line created by the mouse, or perhaps trace the movement of the character? So, you could have things moving in loopty-loops, or following a path previously created by a character?

In basic terms, kind of a replay, where the objects follow the same way they moved/pointed/shot earlyer? I'm having a hard time doing this as I don't fully understand hash tables and arrays, which I think are somehow involved in this effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's an example:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5962

Using this behavior:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5693

[quote:gypw474j]following a path previously created by a character?

you mean you want to give "time reverse" like feature??

here's an example:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5811650/Help%20 ... everse.cap

use arrow keys to move, SHIFT to jump and 'R' to trace the player's movement.

this is already done in some thread but I can't find that right now....

this example was first done by deadeye, but for some reason his example didn't work on my computer(probably due to different versions of construct) so I made another example using his idea as a base

I think this person want a replay feature not a time reverse feature.

There was example here that used listbox to store all the x,y(could add states like shooting etc), but the link is gone, altho I think I have it on a pc somewhere or someone may have posted old example in uploads. However, this way is not very efficient but you can use short cuts like interpolation, getting the speed and angle of motion, and only adding new values when something changes.