GeorgeZaharia's Forum Posts

  • evil sheperd, lol. no hate. its just funny, sheperds are good people. :﹉)

    so are the priests :) good people... :D

    kidding, just a idea, i mean, is like every storyline ever... xD hahaha, i talked about shepherds cause .. ehm, knights and stuff is overused... so something more peaceful, yet intriguing lol... "bep bep im a sheep i said bep bep im a sheep!"

  • I think C3 already has the assets pack under a encryption in android atleast, not sure about other stuff, but the moment u upload stuff to a website... no matter what encryption u use, unless u generate it in the canvas pixel by pixel, u won't protect it ... since is rendered as a file in the browser on clients side. i bet i can test ur app and still "steal" stuff from ur projects. 40$ license bet? if u win, i buy a license, if u lose, u lower ur license forever to $5+tax so everyone can buy it!

  • Several things I need answered.

    >1. How did they end up there?

    2. Who are they fighting?

    3. Main boss(es): why do they want the staff?

    1 ... this 2 characters... where some random prison cell mates, that got there randomly... from various "charges?" or ... they where long life friends, who had a common dream, to become the best sheepherders in the whole realm, but they could only achieve it if they managed to take a hold on the most mythical and powerful herding item there was ever created by the Celestials that created all beings... and left this artifact on earth so that those who posses can bring peace and prosperity to the world... that is if they want to do good. they ended up in the cell, by entering the wrong village, and doing some "scams" so they can sustain themselves, in their quest in finding that "mythical staff", but as they where running their "scams" they got caught by the village guards, and sentence to hang or something odious ... as it happens, their despair is their luck also, as it happens and will be shown that the room they where kept in had a "hidden passage" to a secret treasure room under the kings palace. paba baaaaam!! they found the secret room, by trying to escape, while one of them noticed some brics could be taken out of the wall. paba baam baaaaaam!!!

    2. the evil shepherds alliance or better known as (ESA) they where some sort of evil group that wanted to get the staff so they can exploit the world, and make money or fortune on the backs of all creatures and subdue everyone.... TADADAAAAAA!

    3. i think point 2 explains it.

    on point 3 u can have different difficulty bosses, from the lowest rank (foot soldiers, leutenends etc...) in the ESA hierarchy to the highest (aka the leader or the boss of the bosses etc) bidibup bop!

    (this is basically all plots and story lines in all scifi/adventure movies/games/stories in all times...even the bible and the Round Table Knights... and so on and so forth..."holy grail story" etc, santa claws, grinch same plot.)

  • depends if ur game really needs that isometric feel or not. or if is designed for it... for example.. you wouldn't do a "mario classic" platformer in isometric right? i mean u can... but ... outside cool looks, doesn't give much ... the important factor is ..." is it fun"? graphics helps on marketing, and targeting the proper audience... gameplay attracts everyone no matter what age... if the gameplay is fun. personally i like a good graphical feel.. so id go isometric... but is 100x more work to be done than just plain top view.

  • I'm about 1k in the red if I think critically about it. On the other hand, 1k is a low price for all the things I learned over the years. Ain't even mad :V

    and this answers the question of this thread "Hobbists how you make it happen?" = short answer ... we don't... we doing it for a hobby not for a profit!

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  • hi all you want to know mainly 2 I have searched but I have not found anything that would indicate to me the existence of this plugin for c3 can you tell me something? second what can you tell me how to set the volume?

    why not use the default C3 audio plugin? does the same thing?

  • can u upload the html5 version on itch.io so we dont have to download the file? i can't play windows apps... linux ... laptop.. and slow connection.

  • it should be automatic as long as u have orientation to "Any" and not locked to "landscape" or "portrait" ... as far as i know... some admin probably would have a better answer than "automatic" sorry if looks stupid my reply... but im curious about this also, did something changed?

  • you could try even if is "dangerous" this format

    isBoolean

    ===> blank subevent ==> always triggering action

    ===> subevent trigger once ==> some 1 time action everytime when boolean is true(whenever bolead is true... spawns 1 item for example... the item can be spawned multiple times if the isboolean toggles on off)

    as doop said... might cause confusion and code breakage... if u don't keep proper track of it... just keep it at the end of ur code.

    personally i didn't had any issues with this format, unless i added random conditions on top with isBoolean

  • My game lags when its in full screen.

    what type of device are u running it on? does it have enough GPU/RAM/CPU memory?

  • Thanks. In that case, what is every tick for?

    for actions that don't need a condition, like updating text everytick... or making something move on a loop without having a condition to change its movement (like a solar eclipse or moon/day moving in ur game, or a score update something of that sort.).

    now u can run everytick or just have a condition... and basically if the condition is always true... = everytick... that action will always fire.

  • since we dont wanna put the spawning invisible sprite to an endless road(its tiring),we can try to find a way to put this spawner in specific distances using maths or some features in the game(i havent tried it).their gotta be a feature to do this. or we can use timer, i.e. after x seconds it spawns. but the latter is kinda inconvenient cause if player misses to kill the zombies in time, their would be too much zombies after x seconds.

    i didnt see george zaharia post while i was writing this.

    his post is the right answer.

    you could do it with a timer also, just make sure u limit the zombies count max... to like 5 or so...

    like every 2 seconds

    zombies.count<4

    action>>>create a zombie at X random...

    this way u always have only 4 zombies on screen at all time. or newly spawned.

    anyway here is my example, i made 2 options inside, line 7 block works with the every1 second block on line 2 i think, and line 13 is just a variable controled by how long u keep pressing keys left and right aka moving character... i think line 13 is way better than my other version... is simpler... basically what line 13 does, is everytime u press left or right adds 1 to a variable when that variable hits 200 means u moved 200 "units" and spawns a zombie in ur face at 200 px ... then resets itself and u can move again spawning more zombies, u can alter it as u want... add a random position like random(200, 1500) depending on ur screen layout size etc... 200 being the minimum distance from player zombies will spawn... ud want them to be at somewhere 200px away so u have time to react.

    everything else is adjustable play around with it ... have fun, and hope it helped in any way.

  • yes you have to unpin/change position>then pin it back on the object .... i don't think construct changed the way u pin objects ... but as i remember back in C2 u couldn't change the position of an object if was already pined. i mean u could setup the event, but would be overridden by the pin behavior so u wouldn't see any difference.

    btw that everytick condition is not needed, you can run the if inverted condition alone, and will act as a everytick condition. and same applies to every other condition that doesn't have that green arrow on it which means trigger one time.

  • u could do a variable and add px's or distance traveled to it, based on player movement, for example u would need 2 variables

    oldX and curentX

    the condition format must be like this to be able to check distance and rewrite

    everytick setoldx >player.x

    onleftpress orRightpress > setcurentX to player.x

    compare two variables > distance(oldx, 0 , curentx,0 ) is greater or equal 200 >action> create zombie at player.x +100px (or -100px depending where the player is facing.)

    not sure if u want it like this, but what this would do is check if the distance between last position of player and curent position is greater or equal to 200px then will spawn a enemy around player at 100 px, to check where the player is facing, you could make use of the left and right button when u move by adding a 3rd variable and call it "moveLR" value of 0 being left and 1 being right

    and when u press left u setup moveLR to 0 and when u move right u setup moveLR to 1

    then u just check if moveLR is 0 or 1 and spawn the zombie to player.x-100px if moveLR = 0 and player.x + 100px if moveLR=1

    i can do a quick example if u want.

  • > You need to move the condition from sub-event to event #60. "While" and the condition should be in the same event.

    > I also suggest always adding this "emergency" exit condition to While loops, to prevent infinite loops: loopindex<1000

    Hi,

    I realise now that I was expecting one of the sub events conditions evaluating to False to cause the WHILE loop to exit, so thanks - it has to be in the same event. Still an issue though, the overlap test is not working. So I can get out of the WHILE loop but it is still leaving overlapped sprites. Can you not check for overlap in the same frame you spawned then?

    Regards

    S

    you should be able to check for overlaps once the item is created, but i think since the overlap checking is under a function you could easily drag the subevent from under while and place it under the function as now u have

    Function

    ---while subevent

    ------subevent with while as parent

    what im suggesting is

    function

    ---while subevent

    ---check for overlap (with function as parent) -- this way gives it a bit of time to create the items, then check the overlap.

    not sure if will work, but logically it should... unless we understand wrong the while loop.

    Edit2: if u can use the overlap check on a everytick id separate the "overlap condition" outside the function, and run it always basically... if that is a posibility that will definetly work, just not sure how will affect ur gameplay/system u built, and if u need that!