thanks deadeye, you are truly the man...

I often wonder what the best approach is witb some of these things, I think just building a depleting animation works best in this case.

i'm trying to make a circular energy bar right now in a similar vein and need to erase the bar in a circular manner, it overlays on top of the game on the HUD, I was wondering if any of these functions mentioned would be applicable?

whats the most efficient way of handling multiple instances of the same object?

for example, creating 2 of the same object at different image points and then setting their positions to stay on these points via an ALWAYS , or getting them to behave differently, like changing their angles independently.

thanks

I noticed that if you have an 'always' event after a 'start of layout' event, it seems when using collisions in the 'alway's event , the object will collide despite one of the objects being destroyed in the 'start of layout' event.

Is this supposed to happen or is it a bug?

I uploaded a tiny example in the uploads folder.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/g2vnwythv ... layout.cap

I recreated this after finding some weirdness in my game.

I destroy an object at start of layout, but it doesnt get destroyed until its registered a collision.

While this is a simple demo of what I found, It's causing me some issues in my game and am wondering if that's how it's meant to be or if its a bug whereby the start of layout isn't doing as it should.

thanks ash.

my engine was one big layout sheet of events but I was planning on breaking it all down into smaller layouts, but it seems I can't clone a layout and then copy/paste events from other layouts to start breaking it up..

so, i've been working on an engine for my game, and realised it was time to start thinking about organisation of the stages.

as cloning layouts with events is impossible, how should I organize the main control core of the game to work over different backdrops, and enemy pattern layouts?

i've searched long and hard to find a tutorial or a demo cap and haven't found anything.

thanks.

thanks deadeye, thats an exellent way of solving the problem!

*gets back to work*

tried that before, but its a bit TOO small.. :/

*edit*

stupid question deleted.

my apologies for not explaining so well

I'd like to make the collision area of my bullets smaller than the actual area that the bullets really are.

but I was unsure of the best way to create a new bullet object on each collision box.

I'm messing around with bullets, lots of bullets!

I know that customisable bounding boxes aren't featured yet, which would instantly solve my problem, but, at present whats the best way to shoot a very large amount of box bullets with an object attached to it, so I get my graphics looking right with a correctly sized bounding box attached to it?

also, because i'm spawning both a graphic and a collision box, and doubling the graphics per bullet I guess this will hammer the framerate?

thanks as always, construct is turning into a total weapon!!

so far it seems you can only assign an 8 direction movement to 1 player object, adding a second doesnt seem to be possible..

any chance of adding multople 8 direction objects with definable keys to the list?