Awesome :) I'm so glad it helped!

If all of your in-game text are sprites, ie the text for Mystery 1 is a sprite with text in its image, etc. Then you would store them the same way I mentioned storing the item image reference in the array. So either store the frame of animation the mystery sprite needs to display in the array ( Mystery 1 = animation Frame 0, so "0" would be the value stored ) or save the object's instance UID ( sprite_Mystery.iid ) into the array ( though you'll still need to make sure to set the right frame of animation, assuming all Mysteries are saved as seperate frames within a single object ).

Then as I mentioned before, everything you need for a given Mystery is saved in a given Y position in the array, where each X is storing all the individual parts of the Mysteries.

So for example:

MysteryDataArray

X0, Y0 = "0" ( sprite_Mystery.animationFrame )

X1, Y0 = "0" ( sprite_Hint.animationFrame )

X2, Y0 = "0" ( sprite_SolutionItem.animationFrame )

X3, Y0 = "5" ( sprite_incorrectItem.count )

So what this does, is it stores the animation frame for Mystery1's mystery text object in the first X position, then it stores the animation frame for Mystery1's hint text object in the second X position, then the frame for the solution item that you need the player to click, and finally the number of "wrong" items that will appear in the scene along with the solution.

Then when you make your scene. You'd create an instance of your mystery text sprite, and "Set animation frame = MysteryDataArray.At( 0, CurrentMystery )" ( CurrentMystery could be a global variable, or an instance variable for a separate object that keeps track of what mystery the player is on ), then repeat for the Hint and SolutionItem sprites, finally do a "Repeat X Times" loop to create and randomize the frame for the incorrectItem sprites, where X = MysteryDataArray.At( 3, CurrentMystery )

As a side note, I'm not sure if this is helping, or just confusing you... I'm stupid busy for the next couple weeks, but after that I can look at making you an example.c3p if that would help. I'm sorry I just can't afford the time at the moment :S

You could use 8 Direction Movement to have your AI Units move around if you want something straight out of the box. Or you could use the "Move At Angle" action and do you're own movement system, though keep in mind that this won't recognize solid objects as barriers, so you'd have to do your own collision checks. I'm not sure what skill level you're at, but there are lots of different options here :)

Yup, you're right, it was simple lol ugh... Thanks!!

I personally like to use the idea of states. The idea being that a unit ( in this case your enemy ) is always in a state of existence. Possible states could be:

- "Idle" ( sitting there doing nothing )

- "Patrolling" ( maybe going back and forth between 2 points on the map )

- "AwareOfPlayer" ( possibly looking at the player/paying attention to what the player is doing )

- "AttackPlayer" ( actively trying to damage the player )

- "ReactToDamage" ( reacting to taking damage from the player )

- etc, etc

Then its just a matter of putting together whatever conditions you want to have met, to trigger a new state. Like getting hit by a player bullet would trigger "ReactToDamage" for example. The player being too far away from an enemy might mean the enemy defaults to "Idle" or "Patrolling". Perhaps an enemy that is "Patrolling" will stop sometimes and be "Idle" for a few seconds and then go back to "Patrolling" again. The possibilities are pretty much limitless :)

So, total noob question here... I need to be able to load a new image for my Tilemap object on the fly.

My current approach ( which is not working is ):

- Request URL

- tag "loadNewTileset"

- url "myNewTileset.png" ( which is already in my project under "Files" )

- On "loadNewTileset" completed ( this never happens )

- Tilemap - load image from "AJAX.lastData"

I need the file as a URL because that seems to be the only way the Tilemap can load a new image... So unless I'm missing something, I'm totally stumped... the On Completed trigger never fires... This is intended to be an offline desktop/console game, so the game will never connect to an external server of any kind, meaning that no project files will ever be stored anywhere but on the user's device locally. Thoughts?

Another option that just occurred to me MIGHT be to switch the character from Platform to Physics (have them both on the character and just toggle a boolean which switches between them) but you'll need to get the physics settings right, which will take experimenting.

I have no idea if this would work or if it does, if it would be in the way you want, but it MAY be an option.

The way I like to handle slopes using the tilemap, is to detect the specific tileID that my character is standing on. I check directly using XY coords converted to TileXY coords. Once you know the tile the character is standing on, you can program specific things to happen.

If using the Platform Behaviour, you could then change values like:

- acceleration/deceleration based on the playerDirection VS slopeDirection and slopeAngle

- this can simulate fast decent downhill or slow climb uphill, kind of similar to ice physics

- you can have different settings for if the player is trying to stand still VS trying to move

- adding/subtracting with vectorXY (to "push" the player downhill)

- the player may be trying to run uphill, but adding vectorValues will push them downhill at an amount related to the player's input

- change GravityAngle

- this can be tricky, as you've got to have collision boxes set up so they don't "catch" on each other

- however if set up properly, this can reduce the need to fuss with vectorXY or accel/decel

- or it could be as simple as you program a specific forcedControl when the player holds DOWN and the character is standing on the slope, like how the slide in Mega Man 3 works. It literally pushes you left or right, and stops when the slideTimer runs out AND Mega Man isn't in a single tile high passage, otherwise it keeps the slide going until he can stand up again.

Not sure if any of this makes sense of not, if not then I can try to be more specific. Or if this brings up more questions, please feel free to ask.

Is your slope collision being done with a sprite object or the tilemap?

If it's a sprite, is the collision poly sloped so that the sprite sits at angle 0? Or is it a box collision poly and you're rotating the sprite itself?

Depending on how you're doing your slope, it will affect how to go about programming it.

This looks awesome! I can't wait to try it out, thanks so much for the input!

I think in terms of efficiency it might be a plan to do sprite pooling... so create however many sprites you need/system can handle ( do some testing for lower end systems ) at runtime, and then use your idea of a cone of visibility ( also known as the camera's frustum ) and then when a sprite is out of view, move it to the furthest new point in the frustum that needs a sprite

That way you've always got the same number of sprites operating at once and thus are able to plan for cpu usage in other areas :) either way I'm stoked to try this out!!