winkr7's Forum Posts

  • You can find closest and farthest sprites--this makes the code simpler if that is what you are after. If you want all the sprites in a certain range you can check which overlap a round fake-sprite centered on the player. Why are you doing the comparison?

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  • It is coming along well. Looking forward to an alpha.

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  • If you have two surfaces that exactly overlap (say a water lilly floating on a surface or something hanging from a wall) you get lots of flicker when you move the camera but when you stop it settles down.

    Just an observation.

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  • I like bringing a project back from years ago and being able to get it working in the most recent version. I also like being able to run off of browsers.

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  • This is great.

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  • My mistake, I thought your function had three parameters (I saw the variables).

    in a new block declare a variable, lrValue as a string variable.

    set lrValue=function.blockLeftright

    lrValue will now contain the string "left" or "right".

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  • textvar=function.blockleftright(2,2,4)

    You assign a text variable to the function as above.

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  • If you have a different set of layers on your layout from the asset layout where you set up your templates you can't recreate them exactly. The hierarchy doesn't load the children into layers it doesn't have in the asset layout.

    just a caution here.

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  • Yes, the editor sometimes crashes when I do lots of mesh editing. It doesn't crash enough for me try to figure out why, and I save all the time. I also note that sometimes when I open two projects and transfer stuff around it crashes a while later, but once again, not often enough for me to try to figure out why.

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  • I agree.

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  • I don't completely understand what you are trying to do, but I can answer your title question--How do I reference a sprite.

    when you click the sprite put the uid in a variable (call it last_pick). You don't change that value until some other sprite from the group is picked at which point last_pick is the uid of that newly picked sprite. This distinquishes one of five otherwise identical sprites as the sprite last picked.

    How you store last_pick is a separate question, you could use a static variable, a global variable, a dictionary entry etc...

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  • If it doesn't pick anything it doesn't go to the next line. If you put in an else you will go to the else branch for pick count =0.

    At least that has worked in the past for me.

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  • Years ago I bought GM1 for 400 dollars. They promptly came out with GM2 and put all the new stuff into that, rather than GM1. So I soured on non-subscription based software after that. That cost was for every platform, each platform for GM1 and GM2 was a separate fee.

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  • if you want 4 different identities do it 4 times with different variable names.

    first:

    create blueSprite

    varFirst=bluesprite.uid

    create blueSprite

    varSecond=bluesprite.uid

    create blueSprite

    varThird=blusprite.uid

    create blueSpite

    varForth=blueSprite.uid

    later on I want the second blueSprite because it does something I want (maybe I set its color to pink).

    pick blueSprite by UID varSecond

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