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  • But it seems this only works when the player is on the right and bottom relative to the camera target object. It doesn't work otherwise.

    Does zoom work? Or both camera movement and zoom are not working?

    Try enabling "unbounded scrolling" in layout properties. Also check parallax setting on layers.

    By the way, instead of lerping you can use MoveTo behavior to smoothly move the camera with nice acceleration and deceleration effect. And Tween behavior (value) to zoom in/out.

  • Thanks, Tom. I understand Scirra's position, but I also see why people who are forced to use shady third-party services to pay for a C3 license might choose cheaper regions.

    What about this suggestion — would it be possible?

    For example, if someone paid for a year using Ethiopian pricing, which is 50% cheaper than the Russian rate, their license could be reduced to six months.

  • Deactivating the accounts of Russian developers is quite harsh. It’s not their fault that they are under sanctions and have to pay for a C3 license through other countries.

    A fair solution would be to adjust the license expiry based on the amount paid.

  • citron2010 alastair gave a good explanation of why people use a global sprite for storing variables. There's also an addon for that purpose.

    As for JSON, I use it to store values that are needed rarely. For example, I might add a key like 'MenuNotificationShown' to JSON. There's no point in creating a separate variable for this since I only access it once in the project.

    It's also easy to save all these values at once in Local Storage - just use Sprite.AsJSON and JSON.ToCompactString

  • Each condition (value range) of the same variable will get his own result.

    If the COUNT variable is between 0 and 5, the HUD expresses X.

    If the COUNT variable is between 6 and 15, the HUD expresses Y.

    Another way to do this is with ternary operator:

    TextHUD set text to ((count>=0 & count<=5) ? "X" : (count>=6 & count<=15) ? "Y" : "Z")

  • Scale Outer or Scale Inner modes will dynamically resize the viewport to screen size. But it's your job to make sure that the game properly fills the viewport - that the backgrounds are stretched, that the UI is correctly positioned etc.

  • I have two objects for "global stuff" - a sprite (invisible, global) and JSON. The sprite is for variables I use often, and JSON for everything else.

    The sprite also has Tween, Timer, and LineOfSight behaviors, so I can run occasional timers/tweens or cast a ray when needed.

  • Why do you need the SwordStuck variable at all? Just use Sword.count expression

  • System compare two values Sword.count>10
System pick Sword instance number 0: Sword destroy

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  • Looks like when you don't pick LOS or Player instances, the engine will try to process them in pairs. I vaguely remember seeing or reading about this before. I'd say this is a bug, you can try reporting it. Here is a simpler repro:

  • You can add another row (at Y=0), fill it with random numbers. And then use "Sort X".

    I have an old demo:

    howtoconstructdemos.com/sorting-2-dimensional-array-by-any-column-capx

  • A container would've certainly explained this behavior..

    Are events 9-11 nested under some parent event or function?

    Can you reproduce this issue in a small project and share it?

    Of course, the correct way to achieve the same result would be adding "For each Player, Player pick child PlayerLOS" to event #11

  • You have two "Set dx" actions. The second one should be "Set dy"

  • R0J0hound Still if the target moves slowly, the scope will be lagging behind and never reach it. I tried to make a sort of predictable aim - position the scope slightly in front of the target - but couldn't make it right.