Ethan's Forum Posts

• • Ethan
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  • 10 Nov, 2014
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  Brilliant as always, thanks for your help.

• • Ethan
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  • 9 Nov, 2014
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  I don't expect its harder than any other programming language. What your describing is called "finite state machines", try searching for it on google in relation to games.

  https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1139/how-to-simplify-your-ai-code-with-finite-state-machines

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• • Ethan
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  • 9 Nov, 2014
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  How do i get the difference between 2 angles both clockwise and counterclockwise?

  I want to compare the 2 to test if it's quicker to rotate an object left or right from its current angle to its target angle in degrees.

  I thought you could negate the anglediff expression but it still only calculates the shortest difference.

  Thanks.

• • Ethan
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  • 8 Nov, 2014
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  Whilst i think Dungeon Buster deserves to be on steam and wish you every success, i can't help but think that now just about every game submitted gets greenlit. I heard they're getting rid of it altogether in favour of an anyone can sell apple store type marketplace.

• • Ethan
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  • 5 Nov, 2014
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  Looks great. Thanks for sharing.

• • Ethan
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  • 31 Oct, 2014
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  Aurel would you mind uploading the fixed shader file if you manage to get it all sorted? Thanks.

• • Ethan
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  • 29 Oct, 2014
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  Set 5 variables, oldx, newx, oldy, newy and mouse_direction.

  Every tick set oldx to newx, and set newx to mouse.x. Do the same for the y values.

  Compare 2 values, newx > than oldx set mouse_direction to "right".

  newx < than oldx set mouse_direction to "left".

  Do the same for the y values.

• • Ethan
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  • 20 Oct, 2014
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  This is great. The UK is one of the most heavily taxed countries in the world. Any profits you make off anything the gov wants 40%, thats almost half your earnings. It's not like we don't already pay council tax, income tax, vat on everything we buy etc etc.

• • Ethan
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  • 7 Oct, 2014
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  skelooth, actually i think it might be this one. https://www.scirra.com/forum/plugin-slg-movement_t75938

• • Ethan
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  • 7 Oct, 2014
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  Perhaps rexrainbow can direct you to the correct plugin. He's prolific and all his plugins have strange names, probably because he's not english. I don't have time to search the forums for the correct one and the example he posted, it was some time ago.

  Here's his web address though. http://c2rexplugins.weebly.com

• • Ethan
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  • 7 Oct, 2014
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  I wouldn't use the default pathfinding behaviour either, instead set your game up on a grid and use rex's third party plugin.

• • Ethan
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  • 5 Oct, 2014
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  You could use the absolute function to cancel the minus then * 100.

• • Ethan
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  • 5 Oct, 2014
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  Well the slider variable in my example always goes from 0.0 to 1.0 so if sound goes from 1 to 100 you just need to * 100?

• • Ethan
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  • 5 Oct, 2014
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  I wrote a tutorial on custom sliders a few days ago, don't know if it helps.

  https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1217/custom-scrollbar-or-slider

• • Ethan
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  • 2 Oct, 2014
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