Hey again,

Let's say I have a group of cloned enemies, and I want to perform an action on a random one every X seconds. how would I go about that?

Also, a question about "swarm" behaviour - if I have a basic AI routine for an enemy, and I place a bunch of them around the player (in a platform game), they all act at the same time instead of individually. I thought placing "for each object" in the events would the trick, but it didn't seem to help. any ideas?

Thanks

thanks.

if anything, what I did so far made me much more familiar with construct, so i'd probably be able to make everything better if I start from scratch.

The new version is hot! I love the new platform movement.

Now I have to rewrite my game though

Rich, you're awesome. I removed all the families from my file and it's back to 300k!!

Sweet. i'm guessing it won't be able to un-bloat files though, eh?

I guess i'll wait for the update before I go on.

By the way, the exe created from a bloated file is normal-sized, but it's still an annoying bug.

Thanks! that doesn't work 100% on my end (due to it conflicting with other events), but it does give me an idea how to work it out.

Let's say I have a physics box with rotation turned off. when it's X velocity is less than -1, I want it to face left, and the opposite for right.

"Set angle" doesn't cut it here, any other ideas?

I know I could slap another sprite on top of it to handle the animations, but what if I want several instances of the same box? how do I attach an individual (but the same) "skin" to each of those boxes?

So there's no way to know what triggers it? if that's the case, there's no point working on my old backup since I won't know how to avoid it..

I just added a few events and a small sprite, and all of a sudden the file size jumped from 300kb to 8.5MB!!

What could cause this?

Edit: it seems that every time I save, the file gets bigger - the progress bar hangs at 85% while the file gets bloated. crap, my last backup is pretty damn old..

Sorry for the late response.

Anyway, I did do some streamlining on your code though, I can send you a commented .cap of the changes if you like. For instance, I was able to condense your animation sheet down to just two events, and your dust spawning effect down to just one.

That would be great! I'd also love a way to reduce the bounce a little, it's proving to be a bit more bothersome than I thought it would be.. I don't care about how it looks, it just makes landing and immediatly jumping less responsive than i'd like.

You would of course get full credit if I finish this

Also, I doubt the detector is the problem, since it still recognizes when to switch to the correct animation..

I see, thanks!

My engine is coming along beautifully, I'll be sending a donation your way as soon as I can <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />

I thought i'd bump this thread instead of starting a new one.. so how exactly do I play a sound effect?

Am I supposed to load each sound into a channel then play it or is there a more straightforward way?

When I try to load an .mp3 into a channel, the game crashes.