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• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  I would give the enemy an instance variable boolean "infected" and a timer behaviour

  player on collision with enemy

  --enemy is not infected

  enemy set infected to true

  -- else player pin to enemy

  enemy infected is true

  system trigger once

  enemy start timer "infected" for 4 seconds

  enemy on timer "infected"

  enemy set infected to false

• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  So glad I know how to use the search function..

  how to use local storage

  Using local storage isn't that hard and not even very different from using webstorage..

• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  Using these expressions:

  LayerToCanvasX(layer, x, y)

  LayerToCanvasY(layer, x, y)

  Calculate the canvas co-ordinates above a position in layout co-ordinates for a given layer.

• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  You don't..

  You could however choose one of the other fullscreen options..

  https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/73/sup ... reen-sizes

• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  something like:

  enemy on created

  enemy set health : 30 + 10*TDWaveNumber

  should make the health for

  wave 0 - 30

  wave 1 - 40

  wave 2 - 50

  etcetera..

• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  I thought I put it in the example:

  System pick random instance

  So you can find it under the System-conditions..

• • LittleStain
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  Randomly spawn at different times?

  Would something like this work?

  system every x seconds : random(0,3)

  system pick random instance of spawner

  spawn enemy

• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  The shadowlight object decides from which point the shadows are casted..

  There is no light involved, only shadows are created..

  In my opinion using one of the "old" methods of faking it would suit your case much better:

  From my download archive (Don't remember original poster)

• • LittleStain
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  The shadowcaster object casts Shadows, not light..

  Creating a second object to cast shadows will not add light, only more shadows..

  That's why I gave the suggestion using the alpha-threshold and semi-transparant shadowcasters on the shadow layer so everything over a certain alpha value would become shadows..

• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  Performance tips

• • LittleStain
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  The spritefont will take 4096*4096*4= 67108864 bytes = 67 Mb of image memory during gameplay..

  Sounds like a lot to me..

• • LittleStain
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  • 22 Oct, 2015
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  Many ways to do this..

  If you can see the difference between one instance and the other, you are able to tell the computer which one you mean..

  I usually give the text-object an instance variable "function" on creation and set the variable to whatever the function is: "highscore" "time" etcetera..

  Sometimes it's easier to have an object in a container, so it is automatically picked when picking the other object..

  Other times you might want to change the contents based on where the text-object is on the layout..

  Picking the right instance consists of knowing which instance you mean and making that known to the computer in the event..

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• • LittleStain
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  • 21 Oct, 2015
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  Have you looked at the blendmodes example?

  Sounds to me a simple blendmode would do the trick..

• • LittleStain
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  • 21 Oct, 2015
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  Scrolling to player.x,player.y would put the player in the center of the view..

  the offset you need is the amount the center of "your view" is from the center of the view..

  the clamping should be done by comparing the boundingbox of "your view" with the sides of the layout..

• • LittleStain
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  • 21 Oct, 2015
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  These tutorials might help

  https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/328/us ... onstruct-2

  https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/807/ho ... -game-talk

  also populating an array from json is a way..