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• • blackhornet
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  • 6 Aug, 2020
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  Your "code" does not show where you are waiting for each item to be finished loading. That's why you want one single item to get, so you only wait once. If you'd posted your real code, this would have gone much faster.

• • blackhornet
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  • 6 Aug, 2020
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  You want a hit-counter on the purple blob. When green hits, increase the counter. If the counter reaches 2, destroy.

• • blackhornet
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  • 5 Aug, 2020
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  You'd have to post your code, as that makes no sense. It shouldn't matter.

• • blackhornet
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  Don't store the data separately, it just makes life awkward. Use a dictionary and save the JSON and load it back. Then there's only one load/safe.

• • blackhornet
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  • 5 Aug, 2020
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  You still need the "same UID" check.

• • blackhornet
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  • 5 Aug, 2020
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  Put matter in a Family, then you can reference the objects separately.

  For each matter

  -> For each family

  ...

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• • blackhornet
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  Needs some refinement, but this should give you the basics.

  http://www.blackhornettechnologies.com/Construct3Stuff/Samples/monsters_dazedangels.zip

• • blackhornet
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  • 3 Aug, 2020
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  Yes, I meant just the accordion part of the arm. I'm working on an example. Give me a bit.

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  • 3 Aug, 2020
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  You can use TiledBackground for this kind of effect.

• • blackhornet
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  • 2 Aug, 2020
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  Multiplying by 10 won't introduce an error. Multiplying, doing floor, and dividing again is how you deal with this. You have to pick how many significate digits you want.

• • blackhornet
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  • 31 Jul, 2020
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  Chances are your animation frames are recolliding with the tree. One of the first tutorials you should have done recommends using a separate helper sprite as your main object/player, and pin the animated sprite to it. That way the collision box is fixed, and you can have any animation you want but without the side effects.

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  • 31 Jul, 2020
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  I couldn't open your file to see what you are doing, but I'd keep things at integers as long as I could.

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  • 31 Jul, 2020
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  This has been discussed many times before. Computers can't represent floating point numbers accurately - it doesn't matter how "simple" they may seem.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic

  If you don't actually need floating point, try to keep your numbers as integers, and scale them to floating point at the last moment when really needed. (That is, multiply by 10 initially, and divide by 10 latter, for example).

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  • 30 Jul, 2020
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  Not sure why you think you need a fixed number of objects. This can work for dynamic object creation too.

• • blackhornet
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  • 30 Jul, 2020
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  You don't need two families for this, one will do. Then you reference the Family and the base sprite to get the two unique objects.