Yozzik's Forum Posts

  • Hi, Rex! Thanks a lot for all your plugins, they really help to boost my projects.

    I've got 2 questions about this CSV plugin:

    1. Is it possible to get a bit randomised strings from a cell?

    I use it for dialogs so it would be really cool to be able to get strings like "It is a rainy day at my place" from a cell "It is a rainy|sunny|trumpy day at my place" in CSV.

    2. Is it possible to execute some C2 methods or call functions from the same CSV string mentioned above?

    Like to call function "refreshUI" from a row "reply001, "Hello, Rex!", function.Call("refreshUI")"

    Thanks a lot for your help.

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  • You're picking one module with the mouse and that module is the only one picked for all sub-events. If you want to pick a different module in a sub-event you'll need to 'Pick all' first.

    That sounds like a solution! Thanks, i'll try it.

    I Agree with ramones ,

    about you need to pick all or by closest which every your trying to do.

    My only ? , Is from what I under stand both 35 and 36 are the exact same thing. Or am I wrong?

    Well, no, they have different "relY" variable.

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  • This is some weird logic either i'm missing something.

    This piece of code should change animation of initial (clicked) object and neighbouring object if it's animation is similar to initial object's. I adress them through "relX" and "relY" vars - their relative coords in array assigned when created - because it's easy in my current project.

    Problem. As for now, it only changes initial's animation (event 35). However, it passes event 34 where neighbour's animation (stored in array "base") is checked.

    Any ideas why module doesn't meets event 36's conditions?

    I'll provide more info if needed.

  • Aaand one more thing about imagepoints. When i change any variable's name it chenges everywhere it is used, but when i change any point's name i have to find every place it's used and replace the old name manually.

    Imagepoints need more love.

  • For 1. Why not place your UI on a global layer? Unless you need to generate it in a complex/variable way according to other conditions. Then there's no need for painful spawning code - you can use the editor's strengths and just place the sprites directly....

    Nope, unfortunately a single layer won't help. There are only 2 scenes in my game, currently i'm working on the first scene which is a player's house. Every room is a "link" to a logically matching interface, but you can switch between those interfaces while being in one of them (see the tabs on the left). I have a single background sprite with the set of image points on which i'm building all the interfaces:

    1. Translucent Inactive Layers is a godsend for working on a game with complex scenery, and also enables selective filtering when selecting objects/select all.

    Interesting idea but i'm afraid having a few interfaces (see the screen above) will eat more memory than loading\destroying needed one.

    There should be a similar option in the layout editor to replace objects with other objects, preserving size/position/frame/etc.

    This improvement can be really handy! However this still means "destroy X, spawn Y" and the only difference is that you can set a single action instead of 2, eh?

  • You should pack your images in to related and/or layer elements of sprites. Then cycle through the animation and/or the index.

    I understand your part about C2 logic of memory usage but i'm not sure i got quoted text right.

    On the screenshot there are, for example, lines under some texts. They all are one sprite object but with different animations (one for each situation). Same with small character cards - this is a single sprite object with animations for each character class.

    From your suggestion (as i understand it ) i see 2 ways for optimization:

    1. Spawn the whole UI on startup while loading other game objects and hide that UI on invisible layers - making layer visible is faster than spawning a bunch of sprites.

    2. Make a sprite object and store all UI stuff in it so the whole UI will be downloaded as one single image atlas.

    Which one is better? Is there any other optimization tricks in this case?

    Current approx. download size is 320kb only, memory usage - 19.5 mb (with 5 csv tables).

    It's always better to use casted data types rather than mutable data types. numbers should always be numbers.

    Yep. I'm talking about an ability to use variables in more flexible way than just picking needed one from a list.

  • 1. No idea what are you doing, but 30+ image points for interface elements seems kind of a lot

    There is a sprite that is a background for an interface, imagepoints are used for placing UI elements on it. For example, this one:

    3. Just like 1. Don't know what are you doing or trying to achieve but it looks strange from your description

    3 subfolders for "rooms" that are used as to open special interfaces and represent upgrades. However, objects are quite different in behaviors and variables.

    Naming them without "hObj_blahblahblah_etc_etc" will be really handy, expecially while working on the notebooks.

    4. Wouldn't be better to use array or dictionary for that?

    It's not the universal way as it means i have to add an array/dictionary for every object of that kind.

  • At the moment i'm working on a fairly large game with a lot of interfaces and with it's growth i see some quite primitive yet handy features to be implemented:

    1. Folders for image points. 30+ imagepoints on one sprite for buiilding an interface element becomes a headache. If we have folders in animations why can't we have them in imagepoints?

    2. Search results highlight. Search is a super feature but in it's current logic it shows the whole "branch" of subevents - much more then i want to see. This can be solved with adding a backlight of the searched phrase or at least showing only event\subevent itself.

    3. Object names in subfolders. It's impossible to optimize the number of objects and, for example, sometimes i have to use similar sprite objects in different subfolders. This forces me to name them like "%subfldrname%_%objectname%" or "%subfldrname1%_%subfldrname2%_%objectname%" or even deeper. So, is it possible to make object`s unique name check only in it's subfolder and having objects with similar names in different subfolders?

    4. Flexible variables. As for a large project (800+ events in prototype) there can be more productive way to work with objects that have a lot of variables. For example, you have an object that has 3 int variables that are "counters" like "enemy1Killed", "enemy2Killed", "enemy3Killed" and only 1 Enemy object (with animations "enemy1", "enemy2", "enemy3"). On Enemy destroyed you have to add 1 to the right variable. Yes, you can make a "branched" event with matching right animation names and right variables, but what if you could do things like Add 1 to variable "Enemy.AnimationName"&"Killed"? It looks a bit similar to "Go to layout" and "Go to layout by name" or the same thing in sounds picking.

    Yes, this thread can become a thread for advices, not a suggestion thread.

  • Live and learn, live and learn... Never noticed this condition.

    Thanks a lot!

  • Just to clarify: there is only Touch, no mouse, so i have no "Cursor is over...".

  • Hi, community.

    For quite a long time i have an unsolved problem: picking one of the overlapping objects.

    In this project i have 5 cards "in hand". The problem is when i pick any card that has another card "under" it the bottom card pops instead of the top one.

    I've tried "pick nearest" and that help with less overlapping items, but in this game it's not the way to go.

    Any suggestion or examples? I hope community have simple and nice decision.

  • I'm knocked out with "LastBodyUID = -1". So the first part linked NOT to head will be linked to UID = -1?

    Oh, oh, everything is ok. Thanks.

  • Well, any other way (example, sample) to create good old snake is acceptable and highly appreciated.