yeah I worked only on a could tutorials to get the grasp, I program in c#, powershell, and many others, for development and workflow, getting into game design and development,

looking at my code structure on the capx i sent, does that look good and clean as a visual scripter ? first time really doing it like this LOL so its a bit strange.

will this allow me to move up in the layout for ever? with no boarders?

I will give this a try, never used the scrollto method. will need to look into this. sounds right in theory and might be what I been looking for!

Thank you very much!

Well I tried many techniques and I can not get it. I am stumped!

the goal is to make a seamless universe. my ship stays in the center of the screen at all times, when I tell my ship to move up, I want all the objects to shift down and generate new objects as they come into the screen.

how can I achieve this goal? can I do it by family? Layer, Object, and how to I expand my layout as i travel and remove the layout that is not visible on screen? all data is stored in an array so when I revisit and area it can pull that data and re-create the objects in its location provided? any tutorials on how to make this happen or am I going to advance into this?

still stuck on this one, updated my capx file as well with more tools to play with,

ship still can't move the way i want it to though, what are you r thoughts and how would you go about moving the ship?

https://app.box.com/bridge-command

I would like my ship to stay in the center, I want the objects in layer 0 ( the star field and other objects) to move, giving the illusion my ship is moving.

I am thinking I want the layer to move

capx included,

the settings, I have a ship in the center of the screen. what I want to do is when I double click an area x,y location of mouse, layer 0 will shift in a way that looks like my ship is traveling in the direction I picked with double click. so this means all objects on layer 0 will need to shift, and at the same time create new objects when they come into view.

all data is stored in an array of x, y locations so this helps.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zae0qo7rcl5b4 ... .capx?dl=0

Figured it out!

array.At(array.IndexOf(object.UID),1)

Not quite,

I am working with a 3,2,1 array.

index 1 = Object.UID, "Name1"

index 2 = Object.UID, "Name2"

index 3 = Object.UID, "Name3"

when I load the game I have one sprite that spawns 3 so each one will have a unique UID, I also have a random name generator and it adds it to the Y of the array matching the UID to store the data. Now when I am in the game and select the Object I have a text that should display its name only, how do I get the Y from the array in the text?

so if I select Objust.UID 25 my code will search in the array for object.uid 25 now from that I want to display the name it was given.

hello all, I am stumped.

I have a 2d array, 0,0 the value is UID, Name

I want to set text to name from my array.

example:

1, bob

2, sam

3, josh

so if I select an Object(Josh) hs data is stored in the array, how do i set text to the y of my array to pull the name? I tryed array.at(object.UID, 1) the UID is set and loaded into the array in the x position and the name is generated and placed in the y position. and now clicking on the object i want to display that random name from the Y position in my array.

Hello everyone,

I am working on a AI movement (camera looking top down flat map) full 360 deg of movement.

What I would like is in Idle mode, I want my sprite to look around based on line of site. Not moving! so standing still generating his view:

8 directional (up right down and left and in-between), this direction then gets stored in a variable and this is his New Facing position (again the actual sprite is not moving) with this information I can generate a path to that location (of course looking for obstacle on the way) then it will move in that direction between lets say 10 pixels up to 500 pixels. it will stop and do this all over again as long as the idle state is enabled.

a few thoughts would be to set a invisible circle sprite attached to the AI, then generate a position on that object and move in that direction. your thoughts and how you handled this.. thanks all!

Update: Ok I got this I think, I was over thinking it. all I had to do was find path based on his image point plus or minus x and y locations so it looks like this:

Find Path{X(Self.ImagePointX(0) + random(-125, 125)) + Y(Self.ImagePointX(0) + random(-125, 125))}

this will find my Site (direction) and generate the path in that direction, and then I run the move along path. and reset and repeat LOL very cool effect if you want to make some thing just walking around in some sort of "I am board with nothing to do state"

ok had to do some extra steps, I have to create a local variable and name it I and then at the end of the action I had to add 1 to I