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• • alastair
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  • 11 Jul, 2009
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  oh newt, cheers for the idea. I tried giving the Sprite a massive detector image that surrounds the object and made it a container, then when that detector overlaps another Sprite it moves it away! yay

  edit: oops didn't see your post deadeye, maybe I should try that method too

• • alastair
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  • 11 Jul, 2009
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  What I want to do is compare the distance between 2 instances of Sprite, and then move them away if they are too close. But I don't know how I can do that, I was thinking I could use "compare" and then use the distance formula but I don't see how it would know which 2 instances to choose from.

  Would line of sight behavour be a good solution: checking if SpriteA has "on LOS to SpirteA"?

• • alastair
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  • 11 Jul, 2009
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  probably won't work on his computer.

• • alastair
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  • 11 Jul, 2009
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  What happens if for SpriteA I go

  -- Pick farthest from SpriteB.X, SpriteB.Y

  will it just pick the farthest SpriteA from the first instance of SpriteB? or does it choose a random SpriteB when I do that event?

• • alastair
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  • 11 Jul, 2009
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  nice songs

• • alastair
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  • 11 Jul, 2009
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  He just wants it to be a surprise, it really is coming soon!

• • alastair
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  • 10 Jul, 2009
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  thats really cool, I like both those examples fairly awesome and simple.

• • alastair
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  • 10 Jul, 2009
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  You mean choose a random message from a set of pre-made messages?

• • alastair
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  • 10 Jul, 2009
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  Yeah the slowness of the light/torch to catch up to the mouse is really frustrating.

• • alastair
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  • 10 Jul, 2009
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  yeah thats a good idea, thanks!!

• • alastair
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  • 10 Jul, 2009
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  What exactly are you trying to do, alspal? Is this a level builder type thing?

  Yeah basically I'm placing random tree tiles around, but I don't want them touching the water tiles.

  And I want to know when all of them have are not overlapping, before I go onto the next thing that needs to be done.

• • alastair
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  • 9 Jul, 2009
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  Here's a picture of a problem I'm having.

  (click for bigger view)

  I don't want the value to be set until I'm certain that all of the trees are off the water tiles. But it still goes ahead with that event even when some of them are still on the water!!

  argh, torture

• • alastair
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  • 9 Jul, 2009
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  Will it work if I want to invert the overlapping condition, and then countmatching? To make sure that all of them are NOT overlapping? As it doesn't seem to work for me very well

• • alastair
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  • 9 Jul, 2009
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  Thanks Newt, it makes sense now.

  Maybe you could upload a .cap as well?

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• • alastair
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  • 8 Jul, 2009
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  You may as well use the latest, I don't see why you shouldn't.