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• • RangerJim
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  • 9 Feb, 2013
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  I believe "Choose" is what you are looking for:

  choose(a, b [, c...])

  Choose one of the given parameters at random. E.g. choose(1, 3, 9, 20) randomly picks one of the four numbers and returns that. This also works with strings, e.g. choose("Hello", "Hi") returns either Hello or Hi. Any number of parameters can be used as long as there are at least two

  https://www.scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions

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• • RangerJim
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  • 6 Feb, 2013
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  offsetx = X Location to Start Copy to in the BigArrray

  offsety = Y Location to Start Copy to in the BigArrray

  For "x" 0 to 9:

  For "y" 0 to 9:

      BigArray((offsetx + x), (offsety + y)) = SmallArray(x,y)

• • RangerJim
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  • 6 Feb, 2013
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  Looking forward to this...

• • RangerJim
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  • 6 Feb, 2013
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  Another way is to create an invisible sprite that is your area that you want to trigger the event.

  For instance on the door of the building.

  Then, when the Player overlaps the the sprite you would trigger the event.

• • RangerJim
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  • 6 Feb, 2013
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  Sorry, your question is a bit unclear.

  Can you add to that?

• • RangerJim
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  • 6 Feb, 2013
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  Well it's been several months but I ran into this issue again using phonegap and I finally figured it out. If you have Use Mouse Inputs enabled on your touch object, you get the touch event firing twice.

  So... Are you saying that by disabling the Use Mouse Inputs then the touch works as designed?

  Just want to clarify - Nexus is one of the devices I am buying this month for testing.

• • RangerJim
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  • 5 Feb, 2013
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  Should have been:

  Camera.X = lerp(Camera.X, Ball.X, 0.5)

  Camera.Y = lerp(Camera.Y, Ball.Y, 0.5)

• • RangerJim
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  • 5 Feb, 2013
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  This is only a partial answer since I cannot access my Construct 2 while at work:

  I am thinking it would be something using lerp, to at least smooth out the bouncing camera.

  Step 1:

  Create a separate CAMERA sprite which would be invisible

  Step 2:

  Give the CAMERA sprite the Scroll-To behavior (make sure nothing else has it)

  Step 3:

  Set an Every Tick event that sets the CAMERA Sprite position to the Ball position using lerp

  Something like:

  Camera.X = lerp(Camera.X, Ball.X, 0.5)

  Camera.Y = lerp(Camera.Y, Ball.X, 0.5)

  I am, by far, no expert on lerp - maybe someone else could tune this up better than I. But I think this method would still keep the camera on the ball while making it smoother. It will not have a jerky bouncy motion, but a smoother bouncy motion.

  Here is a good explanation of lerp:

  http://69.24.73.172/scirra/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8735

• • RangerJim
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  • 29 Jan, 2013
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  Try this:

  If

  System -> Sprite.Physics.VelocityX = 0

  and

  System -> Sprite.Physics.VelocityY = 0

  Then

  End Of Game

• • RangerJim
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  • 29 Jan, 2013
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  You might want to look at:

  http://www.scirra.com/tutorials/307/arrays-for-beginners/page-2

• • RangerJim
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  • 29 Jan, 2013
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  Try starting here:

  http://www.scirra.com/tutorials/37/beginners-guide-to-construct-2

• • RangerJim
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  • 29 Jan, 2013
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  When you left-click on the grass get the UID (unique I'd) for the sprite.

  CurrentUID = grass.uid

  Wheb it us destroyed, select the grass with the uid that matches your CurrentUID and destroy that one.

• • RangerJim
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  • 28 Jan, 2013
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  What Yann said...

  I learned this lesson the hard way as well.

• • RangerJim
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  • 28 Jan, 2013
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  Boolean instance variable

  .special = True or False

  If Bomb.Special then

  do special bomb stuff

  else

  do Regular bomb stuff

• • RangerJim
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  • 28 Jan, 2013
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  Here's a thought:

  Notate the position for the objects in question.

  Move them off of the layer - off of the viewable area - to make them easier to go through.

  On the start of layout event, move them into position and layer them in the correct zorder.