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  • 25 Apr, 2008
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  Can you give an example of when this would be useful? I mean, couldn't you just add a new event with the extra condition in it, and make all the other events a subevent to it?

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  • 25 Apr, 2008
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  You can't, and you're right, I'll add this to the todo list!

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  • 25 Apr, 2008
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  You can Set Frequency to speed up/slow down sounds, but you can't reverb/flange sounds... yet...

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  I'm not sure, but I'd guess the exact time the debugger checks what the angle is, and the exact time your events change the angle, are slightly different. Nothing serious though.

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Just checked out this thread and I think you guys missed out on a nice simple solution. Math FTW! I threw in a text object and set it to the left stick's angle. The solution was much easier to figure out when you can see the angles it needs to bound to.

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Re: http://www.scirra.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=885

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  No no no, put all those numbers/strings in an array or whatever, then loop through the list! (you dont actually need subevents for this) For example - from memory, so dont try pasting:

  + On function "MyExpression"

  + For each element in Array

  + Find(Detector.Value('Overlapping'), Array.CurrentXValue) equal to 0

  Do stuff...

  or something along those lines. Basically store all those strings in an object somewhere, and iterate them, instead of laboriously listing the conditions one by one...

  But as I type this I think what kind of ugly obfuscated system requires string searches with weird numbers like that??? You're crazy!!

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  phpbb3 has a post timing conflict resolver, so you're the fool now

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Ouch, thats a nasty way of going about things. Have a subevent that loops through a list maybe, rather than hard coding it

  And out of curiosity, what the hell do those numbers mean?!

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Or play the music in an Every X Milliseconds event, and find the length of the file. Not ideal but I can't remember why loop wasnt included

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Check yer email!

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Does anyone know some good scoring software that can basically take a MIDI and use a bunch of samples to make it sound a whole load better? I've got sibelius which is great for scoring, but MIDI sounds pretty basic. I know software out there exists which can take a score and substitute in real recordings of an orchestra and such to make it sound pretty close to the real thing - but I don't know what any of those programs are called or where to find them. Ideas anyone?

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Function object on the new Wiki

  I wrote this object ages ago, in one of the very early betas, and it's actually got some really cool features slipped in there. The issue arose in a recent thread and expression functions were undocumented, so I documented the whole thing and threw it in an article. In retrospect, condition aliasing is pretty nice, even though I haven't used it yet!

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  You shouldn't have to do anything like that. Each turret keeps its own timer and fires at an independent rate, like in the RTS tech demo. Therefore, either a bug exists in the Turret behaviour, or something in your events is specifically breaking that. I suspect the latter since you can't reproduce it; if you simply spawn a bullet in an 'On Shoot' trigger, it will work fine, is that what you're doing?

  For the record, though, you can loop through objects with 'For Each'.

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  I think we've been through a few site design iterations already, which seems to be typical of any websites I have ownership over, and I think I spend far too long reinventing them over and over. I know ours isn't perfect, but it's good enough. Still, if somebody did all the work and it was awesome, hard to decline