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- R0J0hound
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Families can only include objects of the same type. So you can have a family of sprites, a family of text or a family of any other object type.
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- R0J0hound
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The objects are not exactly paired to each other, it is enough to just delete one of the instances.

To help illustrate what is happening you could replace "Every tick" with the more verbose version here:

System | For "" from 0 to Sprite.Count-1

System | Pick Sprite instance loopindex

System | Pick shadow instance loopindex

System | Pick healthbar instance loopindex
- R0J0hound
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The number of pieces was arbitrary. You can use as many or as few as you need, just add more instances.
- R0J0hound
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How's this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples%209/grid_fit.cap

If the piece can't be placed the piece is moved one position to each side then the corners. Checking stops when a valid position is found.

It only looks 1 space away from where you drop it. Here is an extension of the example to fit the piece somewhere on the image if an immediate nearby spot is not available.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples%209/grid_fit2.cap
- R0J0hound
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It works, here is a example as proof:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples%209/container.capx

Using the UID instead has certain advantages like when you want a certain object paired with another. My method is if you just need another object type paired up and it doesn't matter if it's always the same one.
- R0J0hound
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Portal Math Example:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples%209/portal.capx
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I'd like to point out that you can simplify it by taking advantage of the way events work. When there are an equal number of Bean1's and Bean1shadow's then this will pair them.

Every Tick:

--Bean1shadow| set position to (Bean1.X, Bean1.Y+14)

--Bean1shadow| set angle to Bean1.Angle
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The blank event is just an artifact of converting my first example you can safely move the actions to the event above.

I was noticing the jerky motion as well and found that if you remove "stop loop" from event 6 they move much smoother.

It also goes smoother if you add a smaller value to "t" in event 5, of course you will have to increase the number in the "repeat" condition since the Sprite will be moving over more line segments.
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If you double the height of the Text object you will see the text. It seems that if a word is wider than the text object then it is sent to the next line.

I can only find a IE solution to provide a save as dialog to save the image. For now using the browser object to open ImageUrl and right-clicking save as is the simplest way that comes to mind.
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trippy.
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If for example full length is 200 then just always set the length to this:

200 * health/100

Or change 200 to whatever you want the max length to be.
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The simplest way I have found is to decompose the spline path into a polyline and move along that line.

Here I made it calculate the polyline as needed.

/examples%209/catmullrom_constant_speed.capx

https://www.dropbox.com/s/faf05eygw363j ... .capx?dl=0

Note: It only works with positive speeds atm.