I actually went through and organized everything into layers last night, to achieve what you said in edit 3, heh. Great minds think alike amirite?

Very cool.

Basically this would unlock all things "under" the mouse when you right click. This would save a ton of time since you wouldn't have to unlock EVERYTHING, just to change one little thing about something, then have to go around locking EVERYTHING again.

All right, thanks for clearing that up.

Let's say that I want an area of 128x128 to be a solid color. Would it be more efficient to:

Make a sprite 128x128 (white, then I would change the overlay of each instance as needed)

OR

Make a 2x2 (Basically a small image) as a "Tiled Background" and stretch it out to 128x128?

OR

Make a 2x2 "Sprite" and stretch it out?

Which solution gives the best performance- saving VRAM without sacrificing rendering speed, etc...?

Just curious.

As long as it looks and plays nicely for the player.

Heh, well I don't know that you could call it artwork, moreso placeholder really. I just noticed this early on and wanted to solve it quick.

Hah, it really is that simple. Thanks!

I hate how I came across a solution just now, after I posted this. I'd still like to hear other's solutions though.

To fix it I just set the position of the sprite to that of the player's main collider (it's alpha = 0 in those pictures) but preceded it with Floor. So basically instead of:

PlyrBody: Set position to PlyrMainCol.X, PlyrMainCol.Y

I used:

PlyrBody: Set position to Floor(PlyrMainCol.X), Floor(PlyrMainCol.Y)

That solved the issue but I'm curious as to whether there is a better solution.

This shows the problem with only one sprite, but others experience the same "blurring."

These are two screenshots from the same .cap. I ran the layout and took a screenshot, moved the character left/right then took another screenshot.

<img src="http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3605/blurc.png">

Any idea as to what is causing this or how to remedy it?

What about LAN play? that's all I'm really worried about myself...

Well I fixed the hanging attack animation thing using your method, I just expanded upon it by adding a check for whether Guy is moving or not, and played the moving/standing animation accordingly. As for the jittering bug, there's not a fix or workaround available? Darn, guess I'll just wait till next release.