I need to know what the best method for this would be:

My game has ships and their weapons use firing arcs. So if an enemy is in one of these arcs the weapon will auto-target, AND I want a lot of ships, 20+

So, should I use a sprite to detect this (which would mean that the firing arcs are not customizable which I would rather avoid) OR values which could be customized, but maybe slower?

I just found a bug that was driving me crazy!

I setup an INI file for saving purposes and each sprite has its own item which is a string.

So it would look like

[GROUP]

Sprite1=Sprite1.x|Sprite1.Y|Sprite.Value('A')|Sprite.Value('B')

And the problem is when I load and use GetToken(INI.ItemString("Group", "Sprite1"), 3, "|") to load the 3 token into a NUMBER variable of the sprite, Construct makes the variable to a STRING variable, which causes all sorts of problems when adding and such.

I'll add 20 to Variable A which is already at 100, and instead of it being 120, it is 10020.

I thought I'd point it out.

Is this a bug?

[quote:1mvhoz63]how BIG does it have to be?

Um, that's the thing HUGE. And I mean huge big. Thousands of pixels across, If the player comp can handle it. (It is a settable preference in the game)

[quote:1mvhoz63]and whats the intended use?

An area of influence between objects so the player can monitor the strength.

Hi, maybe this was asked before.

But, I need to draw a circle that wont get fuzzy/pixelated no matter what size. And it needs to VERY big so I can't prerender it and shrink it down.

I thought I could do this with the canvas object, But I can't find it. And I remember in earlier builds of Construct a Circle.FX which might work.

Any help?

I don't think that'd work.

As an example generate a random value:

0-30 -- 50% of the time

31-60 -- 35% of the time

61-100 -- 15% of the time

not necessarily that but something similar.

Hi, I'm not sure if I made up a new word. But here's what I'm after:

I want to generate a random value for a bunch of sprite's (0-100) which is easy, but the thing that has stumped me is, I want to make the high value more rare. So you could easily find sprites with random of 0-10 but would have to search a long time for 90-100.

I know I could event out every factor of 10 or some thing like that, but does anyone know if there's an easy way to do this?

Thanks

Where is the S plugin? I can't find it.

Can someone tell me how to use a seeded random?

If I want to make a series of randomly placed nodes with a seeded random how would I go about that?

Whoops!

I put the object in the wrong layer.

I feel silly.

Thanks! I'll get to work on this now.

So, I'm trying an Inheritance layer and game it a unique name and put that name in the field for another layer in another layout and nothing?

Is there some trick?

Yeah, but I don't want to DESTROY them, I just have to or they carry to whatever other layouts you go to. And the reason I wanted to use global, is to keep down on the number of object. Otherwise I'd need a button object for the options layout, the store layout, etc. with a lot of GUI elements it'd get messy doing it that way.

And this is a big project so I'd like to keep it as clean as possible.

I've got a Q,

I'm making my own GUI, which will have things like slide bars and buttons etc. So a fare amount of code is needed to make them work. I was thinking I could do it with global objects and include an event sheet. BUT, they seem to carry over between layouts and if I destroy at the end of a layout they don't get re-created (I have an event to create them at start of layout in the right position.)

If i made myself clear, does anybody have any tips or a better idea?