Quite sure he means an effect for C2, since a web app that actually does this is mentioned right there in the post (ignoring previous discussion).

The animation's quite smooth for the bad guys, what did you use?

I guess at the moment it is spawned a overlap or collision would get triggered so you either add some timeout to the powerup or get a coordinate that's far enough away to begin with...

Guess something like this could work:

Every 1 seconds is, of course, your event for powerup spawning - and if the random number is too close it gets spawned again until it's far enough away.

The latest link has been updated. T - Towards top, B - Towards bottom, Shift+T - To top, Shift+B - To bottom. Multiple selections work and will work until you reach a limit (i.e. the top object is already at the top), then weird things might happen.

Feedback welcome

Let's say I have a group filled with events - is there a way to tell if any event in that group was triggered?

Currently I have to put a Global variable set in nearly all of these events, but it would be MUCH easier (and more dependable) if there was a way to tell it that way.

Is this possible?

Could probably be done with a specific shader, but that would take some programming work.

puntodamar - Check this out - - it even has a demo for Canvas use.

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Total Mindblow.

This version is a great leap forward.

Good, good, I try my best. With ZOrdering in it should be a blast, all the way.

Suggestions.

. Colors (white & black are gone) (Maybe a color picker?)

. A way to slice parts because some parts i used for my hover tank are now gone (they where smaller than your default shape size, half square), slicing would enable some nice shape options.

. Adjustable brigtness & contrast for shapes

. Drag & Drop (as addon to "wasd")

. Mouse scroll zoom in/out

You can get black and white by lowering the saturation all the way (Shift+:) and then Rising or lowering brightness (Shift+< and Shift+>). But I'm aware of this - in the next proper version we'll have the loadable pallettes so it won't be a concern anymore.

Slicing parts is on the menu, but it will mean that each part is completely unique, so it would eat video memory for breakfast. But I'm looking into it. In fact I looked into far enough to think of most of the possible slices:

The red ones would slice the part, the green would modify the shape. I suspect with a system like this you could just go crazy on the tile modifications. But these would also have to be finalized and a part of the save system, just like the parts, so I'm keeping that for some optimistic future once again.

Adjustable brigtness & contrast for shapes - Did you try the [ ] ; " < > keys? It's not quite the same, but it does let you go quite wild the colors.

Drag & Drop - this one is a little low on the todo list, to be honest, but I might look into it.

Mouse scroll and zoom - last time I tried this it irritated me so much it's also been thrown to the back of the todo... but it will come. For now you can press Z and see what happens (in the center of he screen, sigh).

Alright, here's an "early" next version:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/132 ... index.html

It has Undo and Redo, massive thanks to rexrainbow for the plugin.

Saving and Loading, Cut, Copy and Paste. There could be some weirdness left in there somewhere so please comment on anything that acts weird.

There's a new data file - it will also save the selected state, here's a sample so you can play around with something: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/132 ... ptorX.sgen

ZOrdering not done yet, but close. Also the UI will change, which is why it's a little weird for now.

You can check a manual of sorts here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16om ... sp=sharing

And I noticed through Dropbox the saving is a bit annoying, with the new window and such - is there a way to avoid this?

NOTE: This tileset is not final so please don't get attached to any creations. This version will stay up a while, though.

Yeah, but it needs to be split into animation frames, etc. Either way I'd like to make everything as easy as the part placement and manipulation - so single action, just load a sprite sheet and bam, have a new part set.

Colors for now, parts are a bit trickier - for now all I can think of is a custom part set that let's you load an image which is then split into usable parts. Once again - in the future...

Suggestion: Design Name

If we can insert a design name then we get a nice "name".json & "name".png

Makes it a blast to store our files easy.

I have been reading about the way text rendering badly impacts performance + native controls tend to really mess up the overall look with their different sizing, etc. So I have this "thing" about not using any controls/text objects. My current plan is to store the name (if it's possible) the first time you save something and then later on it would use that name by default. So it would be easier at least. Will look into a name field or button that calls a popup or such.

Btw in this next version the files are neatly .sgen and not .json and there's also a helper app PalGen that makes .pgen files which can be loaded as palettes.

I wonder if a nodekit export can be associated with a file and process open requests... we'll see.

In other good news the Undo system should be basically limitless and offer full undo/redo for the entire session. All thanks to rex's cool plugin and some research.

Also on the long future todo list as a "Shadow" option that would basically paste the current image down below the design, make it black and blur it (adjustably). So you could add small shadows to, say, tanks, and larger, more blurred ones to floating things like the neat hovertank you made.