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  Something I did for someone else a while back that is almost what you want. Not quite, but the distance formula is in there. Pick it apart and see if it helps any..

  light distance

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  Typing Game (r115)

  Quickest way of answering you in the short time I have. It's something I wrote for someone else on the forums. It's nothing like what you're doing, but saving the sprite UID and picking a sprite based on that variable is in there, so it may give you some ideas. You know... until someone comes along and answers properly ;p

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  um danuyos gave you the solution to that too...

  ADD 1 to TOTALCOINS ;)

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  I usually visit pixelation every month or so to remind myself how crap I am ;) Thanks for posting!

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  I second Picroma Plasma. That's way more intuitive than SVGEdit IMO.

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  It is. Gotta love how those other engines copied Construct's logo style with the gear ;)

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  Off the top of my head without attempting it, I'd probably do what you did and have seperate puzzle pieces to define the shapes, then use those pieces as a mask to show parts of the image.

  The problem with this is, for a 1024x768 image for example, that if you had 10 puzzle pieces, then you'd need 10x 1024x768 images.

  Without trying, it's hard to say if there's a better way as I haven't messed with masks in C2.

  I guess you could create several canvas objects and paste each masked shape into those to cut down on multiple full images.

  If you can't figure it out, I might have a bash tomorrow when my mind is more fresh.

• • procrastinator
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  Very nice. Love the simplistic concept. Someone asked how to do this elsewhere on the forums, and I posted a capx to show the basics and how I'd do it. It actually got me thinking about taking it a bit further, so maybe you can enjoy my version soon ;p

  Hope you don't mind!

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  Ah ok then it must be to do with real numbers. Physics velocity could be at 0.01, which is still > 0 , so it won't stop.

  Try what Nimtrix suggested, but..

  If floor(velocity) > 0 then hasStopped = false

  else

  hasStopped = true

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  Nimtrix's solution is what I was going to write after I read the first post, but obviously he got there first ;)

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  RangerJim got it right.

  Picking closest to mouse cursor wouldn't work. What if the animation finishes and the mouse has been moved elsewhere in that time? ;)

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  Typing Game (r115)

  There you go :)

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  Yeah, mine was just a proof of concept. To see if using sprites with a tiny bit of an angle in the drawing could produce a decent fake perspective. So yeah, nowhere near mode 7 ;p

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  Congrats man!

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  Yeah text object isn't smooth at all. SpriteFont plugin would be your best bet, or roll your own. Simple enough to do. If you don't want to use a plugin, I can put up a capx for you.