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• • R0J0hound
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  • 22 Oct, 2012
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  Are you trying to do a timer that does something after a tenth of a second? Like newt said use a variable and add dt to it every tick.

  Say you call your variable "timer"; don't do a condition like this to see when a tenth of a second has passed.

  timer = 0.1

  "timer" will almost never be exactly 0.1, instead use ">=".

  timer >= 0.1

  and add a "trigger once" condition after it.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 21 Oct, 2012
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  You could do something like this:

  every tick

     set oldval to var

     set var to Choose("1","2","3")

  while

  var=oldval

     set var to Choose("1","2","3")

  You could also do the following:

  variable choices="1,2,3,"

  variable value="1"

  set value to tokenat(replace(choices, value & ",", ""),int(random(tokencount(choices,",")-2)),",")

• • R0J0hound
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  • 21 Oct, 2012
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  The process is the same as making any other game. For a general start add a player sprite and give it the 8direction behavior and then add other graphics for the level graphics. Anything you don't want the player to walk over give the solid behavior.

  For specific aspects of zelda you want to do, this tutorial list may be useful:

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic45416.html

• • R0J0hound
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  • 19 Oct, 2012
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  It works here. Use the "Is Boolean instance variable set" condition which is next to the "Compare instance variable" condition.

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  • 19 Oct, 2012
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  After re-reading your initial question you may also be able to use a mod tracker to do it.

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  • 19 Oct, 2012
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  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples15/average_values.capx

  You can tweak how you define what side by side by changing the "select" sprite or tweaking event 4.

  If you want to have only touching sprites count as side by side then make "select" have the same image as "sprite". Or if you want to do a distance calculation instead change event 4 to:

  Pick all sprite

  For each sprite

  distance(select.x, select.y, sprite.x, sprite.y) <= 100

  If you can pick an object you can get it's UID. In the case of your question you could save the uid of the object to a global var, check for overlapping at offset, and then use an inverted pick by uid to make sure you don't pick the original. That may not work in this situation of checking for objects of the same type, so you may want to use a detector object as I have in the example.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 19 Oct, 2012
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  If you download Construct Classic it has a Text to Speech plugin included.

  Using it's "Speak text" action you can make it say whatever you want.

  Here is a reference of advanced things you can make it do:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717077%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

  You can then record it to a sound file with a program such as Audacity:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq_i18n?s=recording&i=streaming

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• • R0J0hound
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  • 18 Oct, 2012
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  You need to use the imagelist object with the list object to have images. It appears to work with bmp or ico files.

  Here is a working example to get you started:

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples15/imagelist.cap

• • R0J0hound
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  • 18 Oct, 2012
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  It looks like it's a bug with joints. I landed on a higher ledge and the orange box just sat above the rocket like you said. The joint offsets aren't the same at different positions.

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  • 18 Oct, 2012
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  You could make the object immoveable at "on drag start" and make it moveable again "on drop".

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  • 17 Oct, 2012
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  You could use a plugin to place 3d objects like this one:

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/plugin-3d-using-copperlicht-work-in-progress_topic49881_post314191.html

• • R0J0hound
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  • 17 Oct, 2012
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  You could use the third party function plugin. You could also implement a stack with the Array object which I've done before for a flood fill algo.

  Here are some examples of alternative ways:

  Here is an example that uses a stack and goes until the stack is empty.

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/in-something-enclosed-or-is-it-just-me_topic53841_post340661.html#340661

  This does it in a while loop. It works by visiting each object which in turn pick unpicked objects. It finishes when all the picked have been visited.

  http://www.scirra.com/FORUM/matching-more-than-3-sprites-gem-matching_topic51703_post326543.html#326543

  EDIT:

  It seems to torment the chicken when you shoot eggs.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 15 Oct, 2012
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  Just updated the plugin here:

  http://www.scirra.com/FORUM/pluginunique-spriteno-animuniqe-image-per-inst_topic43116_post361867.html#361867

  Destroying or loading another image now releases the textures.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 15 Oct, 2012
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  Here is an update that releases textures when you destroy the object or load another texture.

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/plugins/UniqueSpriteFixed.zip

  Hopefully my build setup doesn't cause any issues.

  lucid here is what changed

  The destructor in Runtime.cpp:

  ExtObject::~ExtObject()
  {
       // No longer using this animation
       pRuntime->ReleaseAnimation(pRoot);
       renderer->ReleaseTexture(localTex);
  }

  and the load frame action in Actions.cpp:

  long ExtObject::aLoadFrameFromFile(LPVAL params)
  {
       TextureHandle newTex;
       try 
       {
            //localTex
            newTex=renderer->CreateTextureFromFile(params[0].GetString());
            //pAnimFrame->th=localTex;
       }
       catch (...) 
       {
            return 0;
       }
       renderer->ReleaseTexture(localTex);
       localTex=newTex;
  ...
• • R0J0hound
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  • 15 Oct, 2012
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  Here is a starting point:

  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples14/word_highlight.capx

  It finds the position of a word and then breaks the text into 3 separate instances (text prior to word, word, and text after). You can then change to color of the word independent of the rest of the text.

  In it's current state it only works with one text line, and finds only one word to highlight.

  Here's a list of what could be done to enhance the technique in roughly increasing difficulty:

  * Make it work with multiple text objects.

  * Make it highlight all occurrences of a word in a line.

  * Make it able to highlight different words to different colors.

  * Make it work with multi-line text.

  I would take a look at the plugins to see if there are any that allow for displaying formatted html text as that would simplify it by replacing words like "green" with say "[_COLOR=#00ff00_]green[_/COLOR_]".