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• • Danijerry
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  • 29 Apr, 2012
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  CurX, CurY and CurZ works only when using a for loop, otherwise, they will always have the initial value which is zero. The simplest solution would be to use instance variables with the brick or global variables to store your current X and Y dimensions of the array.

  Nice use of three dimensional array to store X and Y coordinates in the Z dimension <img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0" align="middle" />.

• • Danijerry
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  • 16 Apr, 2012
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  You are right that the properties of the instance will be passed to your function. But for some reason it seems that always the first instance is picked. Can you provide the .capx!

• • Danijerry
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  • 15 Apr, 2012
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  I think this is an issue of updating the "SOL". If I am right they are all instances of a single sprite.

  In short when you are using a For each a single sprite is selected and the rest of the code will be using only that instance of the sprite. To overcome this you add a system event "Pick all". I just helped solve one such issue take a look:

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/isolate-identical-sprites-by-variables-for-testing_topic50378_post317619.html?KW=#317619

• • Danijerry
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  • 15 Apr, 2012
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  Try this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28195143/c2_share/OmenHound_fix.capx

  I have modified the On Start event to destroy the first GemBlue you have outside the layout. This would stop the hound going after it.

  I have used the bullet behavior. You would not need a for loop here. The pick nearest event should be on the GemBlue.

  You don't have to worry about SOL (Selected Object List) here. It is a little advanced I think. You may look into these links if you want to learn more about it.

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/isolate-identical-sprites-by-variables-for-testing_topic50378_post317619.html?KW=#317619

  SDK Manual Entry: http://www.scirra.com/manual/29/object-type/page-1

• • Danijerry
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  • 15 Apr, 2012
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  MOB.Count would return the number of instance of MOB. Can't you just add 1 to happyMOBs when the condition is met!

• • Danijerry
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  • 14 Apr, 2012
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  This may be an issue of SOL. Sharing the .capx would help.

• • Danijerry
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  • 12 Apr, 2012
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  To start on button click, use a variable (x) initially set it to 0, when the button is clicked set it to 1.

  Add an event System --> Compare variable --> x = 1

      Add the for loop as a sub event.

  For choosing an item Pick nearest/farthest Sprite event may help.

• • Danijerry
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  • 11 Apr, 2012
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  There is a system expression called loopindex, take a look:

  http://www.scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions

• • Danijerry
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  • 6 Apr, 2012
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  I was just thinking that it would cost more memory when you create and delete a sprite. Will it not be better to just update the position of a single sprite?

• • Danijerry
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  • 6 Apr, 2012
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  I didn't think about the loop properly, but good that it is solved.

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• • Danijerry
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  • 5 Apr, 2012
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  It seems to work for me.

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28195143/c2_share/CanvasPasteProblem_fix.capx

• • Danijerry
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  • 5 Apr, 2012
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  Just make the last empty event a sub event of the previous loop, it should work fine.

• • Danijerry
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  • 24 Mar, 2012
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  A point to note from the fabulous manual:

  "A simple example of a list of ten values would be a 10 x 1 x 1 array. Note that you should not set a size of 0 on any of the dimensions else the entire array becomes empty; it is correct to have a size of 1 on unused dimensions."

• • Danijerry
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  • 24 Mar, 2012
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  It was a little involved. I used a few local variables.

  It is an issue of updating the "SOL" each time. "Pick all" would do this. You can try disabling it and disabling or enabling the debug text that I have inserted, you should be able get a fair idea of how this works.

  May be the same could be applied to the other methods if you like them.

  Try this. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28195143/c2_share/TargetShip_InvisibleSprite.capx

  Things to note: Sprite3 is very small, I am blowing it up to 300x300 so the edges would be fuzzy, you may want to use a better one to get a better overlap.

  Local variable "closestTargetDist" should be greater than the invisbile sprite radius to begin with.

• • Danijerry
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  • 23 Mar, 2012
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  To clarify the last condition does not go through each of the shadow instead always picks the first instance of the shadow sprite which is the one that is outside the layout which has a casterID of 100. To make this work you may have to go through each shadow using a for loop.

  This may be better!

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28195143/c2_share/Shadow_UsingUID.capx