New to Construct

Alright lucid, that worked like a charm. Check out my new Platform, complete with multiple weapons, great music, and fun platforming:

http://www.mediafire.com/?o0ye76bb2pvmn9e

Alright, now what I'm trying to do is to take the Sprite images of the weapons and place them on another sprite. So pretty much, when I choose Missile, the Missile's image will show on a sprite telling me what I've got selected.

What I've done is set up a sprite I call "currentWeapon" that's blank. I then have:

+ player: Value 'weapon' Equal to 1

How would I go about making sure that sprite "currentWeapon" shows the proper image of what I'm wielding?

(Hopefully I get this one right >.>)

With the "currentWeapon" sprite, you can have multiple frames, each one being a sprite of a different weapon, and set the animation speed to 0 so it'll never actually change frame on its own. Then you manually tell it which frame to go to based on the value of 'weapon', so if 1 means shotgun and the second frame of "currentWeapon" is the shotgun sprite, say this:

+ player: Value 'weapon' Equal to 1

-> currentWeapon: Set animation frame to 2

and so on and so forth.

(Hopefully I get this one right >.>)

With the "currentWeapon" sprite, you can have multiple frames, each one being a sprite of a different weapon, and set the animation speed to 0 so it'll never actually change frame on its own. Then you manually tell it which frame to go to based on the value of 'weapon', so if 1 means shotgun and the second frame of "currentWeapon" is the shotgun sprite, say this:

+ player: Value 'weapon' Equal to 1

-> currentWeapon: Set animation frame to 2

and so on and so forth.

Hey that works! I was trying to use the image manipulator. It has a "Copy to" and "Copy from" for Sprite objects, but it wasn't really working out. Your method works great.

Anyone have a fun idea to try to implement into my platformer? I'm thinking something like a wall jump or and RPG inventory system or powerups or something, but I'm kind of lost how to implement any of them.

Wall Jump and a few other platform examples can be found on my Tutorials Blog

http://constructtutorials.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/a-few-platform-snippets/

I would say to start with something like a double jump or a wall jump, but try and get as far as you can, even if its just guesses that don't work, expirement and mess up, then post your question thread. Also, a lot of new peopl are afraid to 'annoy' people with a lot of new question threads. Just ask your double jump help question in a new thread so the title can let people know if its an area they'll be able to help you with.

Edit: I wrote this before the intervening posts, but never hit post, so this isn't to say to ignore minor's blog post

Alright, I'm trying to add an INI file to the game to random pick which music plays, but I've got an issue with it. Right now it's just:

AppPath & "src\music\" & conf.ItemValue("Music Files", "music1")

That should give me:

'AppPath' \src\music\bossbeat.mp3

And it should play as the music, but right now, it just has the conf.ItemValue as 0. Let me post it, maybe I can get some help:

http://www.mediafire.com/?bc4ip1rwo4fnlzb