Sprite based counter

Sorry for the fairly noobish question here, but whats the best way to make a counter with sprites rather than a font?

I seem to recall MMF having a counter object that you could load your sprites into. anything like that in construct?

Thanks heaps

You could do it manually fairly easily, it just wouldn't be as convenient. As far as I know, though, there isn't anything like that. It doesn't mean there 100% isn't, since there's a lotta stuff I don't know about.

EDIT: I just stumbled across something called an "Image List" while looking for something that might suit your needs. It SOUNDS like it could be what you want, but I have no idea how to use it.

You might want to check out the SpriteFont Plugin

orry for the fairly noobish question here, but whats the best way to make a counter with sprites rather than a font?

It's pretty easy to do with events. You just have to add to a sprite the numbers from 0 - 9 as frames and then use a loop to spawn instances of the sprite accordingly. Some knowledge about the system expressions will help. Here's an example:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2306601/spritenumbers.cap

Awesome! All of these replies are helpful, thanks!

I think I'll give spritefont a go first, looks like it might be handy for a number of things.

Thanks again everyone!