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  • 27 Dec, 2010
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  Wonder if it has anything to do with core management?

• • newt
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  • 27 Dec, 2010
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  Like I said in the first post.

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/666516/offsetplat.cap

  Offset works well for is left and is right, you just have to get your movement correct, or add additional offset comparisons for the gap made when the troll moves.

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  Yeah if its something new, then you might check to see if there's any changes in your system.

  I will say I have that issue sometimes, but its usually when my vram is already taxed, or if the image is a little bit larger.

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  Yes its possible, but its a pretty contrived process.

  There's a ton of stuff you have to take into account on every little thing you do. Stuff like reading from the gpu, relative coordinates, no existing menu system, and canvas...has a few issues.

  It's even possible to do some layer modes, but its not possible to add them on the fly.

  Same goes for the particles object, it will paste into the canvas, but you cant change the texture during runtime.

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  Yeah, that's the reason I went for the other way.

  There's no such thing as an angle above 360, likewise none below 0, so it resets.

  All you can do is compare the sprites angle to make sure it doesn't go above or below.

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  • 27 Dec, 2010
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  Sorry, should have linked it originally.

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4836&hilit=Perlin+Noise+plugin+Arsonide

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  • 27 Dec, 2010
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  Distance gets you the x, and the y, offset gets you the x, or the y.

  You should just use one for your detection.

  Also the way you have it set up your saying if the distance is greater than 300, or the distance is less than 300 then move, but that will make the troll move all the time, and distance() doesn't care if the player is to the left or to the right.

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  • 27 Dec, 2010
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  There really is no code, unless your talking about making a plug, and that's a different animal all together.

  Read the wiki. It will tell you a bit about setting up expressions, and the use.

  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/construct/index.php?title=Expressions

  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/construct/index.php?title=System_Expressions

  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/construct/index.php?title=SDK

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  • 26 Dec, 2010
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  Click the object you want to animate.

  On the right hand side of the program there are some tabs down at the bottom.

  Click the one that says animator.

  Right click on the existing frame, choose add frame.

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  • 26 Dec, 2010
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  You can use overlap at offset, just use positive and negative values.

  troll is overlapping player at offset x 10

  -troll set x to .x+1

  troll is overlapping player at offset x -10

  -troll set x to .x-1

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  • 26 Dec, 2010
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  This is probably a better way to do it using the actual values, and just clockwise/ counter clockwise.

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/666516/vcControl.zip

  Keep in mind you can have negative values on the volume.

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  • 26 Dec, 2010
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  mouse is over object

  mouse button left is down

  ->object set angle towards position mousex, mousey

  xaudio2 set volume to clamp(object angle, min volume, max volume)

  ... with object angle preset to 0

  Might want to put a lerp in there to use more of the circumference.

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• • newt
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  Yeah, that's the thing about physics, not only is it "doesn't play well with others", its also the bully on the playground.

• • newt
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  • 25 Dec, 2010
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  I'm not sure but I think the system object has a call for that too.

  + System: Start of layout

  -> System: Run Script ("")

• • newt
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  • 25 Dec, 2010
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  Wow they need to change that to enable python scripting.

  Also, NthSimulacrum

  The main use of the tiled background object is to make that object scalable, but in order to get the benefits that save on memory, the texture needs to be in power of two.

  Your Tiledbackground3 object could be a 2x 2 image.

  ... just thought I'd point that out.