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  Ysvw, sir.

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  Are the graphics of the bots lined up with the zero angle ?

  In C2 that zero angle is to the right. (east)

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  .... that way, when you click to move an npc to an area, the beacon won't spawn in that area if there's already one in the space, and so the next npc can't move. ...

  Sounds like a valid solution to me. But. You gonna have all sort of little problems due the spawning. Mainly because you can not use a newly created object to evaluate things before the next top level event. You also need a system that pairs NPC to its target. That is easily done with instance variables, yet will force you in a lot of picking. And in the end you win nothing to little compared to the already proposed solution.

  Still, it is handy to just have a target sitting on that place to just simple (Line of Sight) know if there is already a NPC heading to that place. I suggest bringing the target in a container with the NPC. Target will be picked when you pick the NPC. NPC will be picked when you pick the target. So, they are strictly paired up. When one dies, the other dies.

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  https://www.scirra.com/construct2/releases/r245

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  You can move the emitter anyway you want.

  Particles can only be moved by the particle behavior. (emitting away, sizing, falling ....)

  You can of course parallax the layer with the particles on, hell of a job, because it is a 'reversed movement' on a object with the scroll behavior attached to. And then you are stuck with parallaxing the other layers, if needed.

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  It acts as an array. No need to store it in an array, because it is using a 'seed'. Any time you use the same seed the expression noisejs.perlin2(X, Y) returns the same random value for the same X/Y.

  Try to make/handle an array with a dimensions (100.000,100.000,1), and you will understand why not to bring it into an array.

  noisejs.perlin2(100.000, 100.000) has no problem to calculate that value without storing this value (and all other 10000000000 values) in a memory eating array.

  But if you insist to do so. This is the example in the first post in this topic + 1 line more code.

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  Did you stop the path movement ?

  Besides that. Just use the action 'set speed'.

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  Should work if you use 'nearest' as target mode.

  If First in range, the turret will always track the same target until it leaves range, even if other targets come in range. If Nearest, the turret may switch to a different target before its current target leaves range, if another target comes closer.

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  You can use the family only to sort Z order.

  If there are many many objects, but the order can be constraint to ordering around a few 'key' objects, you can pre-pick those objects.

  Example with order needed only around the player. (player is also in the family)

  Give player the Line of Sight behaviour with a reasonable range.

  Give the family a family instance variable 'ground'.

  (Player) Has LOS on (family)

  ____For each (family)

  _________Set family.ground to family.y

  ____Empty event

  _________System > Sort Z order > Object = family ... Instance variable = 'ground'.

  You can also pre-pick those that are on screen

  Is on screen (family)

  ____For each (family)

  _________Set family.ground to family.y

  ____Empty event

  _________System > Sort Z order > Object = family ... Instance variable = 'ground'.

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  Since ....

  1/ C2 is marketed as "You can now make advanced games without writing a line of code. Construct 2 does the hard work so you don't have to."

  2/ I belong to the targeted category of 'scripters'.

  3/ I can only trust (because of point 1) that i can never ever reach the performance of the build in Array sort algorithm. And (because of point 2) i am not supposed to have the knowledge to beat that performance.

  ....... i use this lazy method. Basically it comes down to reserving the X-axis for sorting by self-made 'filters', and store every value on the Y-axis.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/brvmx9pupif37 ... .capx?dl=0