Sorry to bump on an old tread but I can't seem to get distance to accept anything.

So if I have a var and want to set its value to the distance between to sprites I was thinking:

Every Tick - Set Var = Distance(sprite1.x,sprite2.x) But it doesn't except that syntax or 4 values (sprite1.x,sprite1.y,sprite2.x,sprite2.y)

whats the correct way to write this out? Or has it changed as this thread is very old?

It would really be nice to be able to sort files based on date / size / name in the load file, I save a few backups a day and sometimes it gets confusing trying to go back to a save point when I save to the wrong google drive folder or what not. I'll try to remember to post in requests :)

Maverick1912

Yep, thanks should have caught that! Sigh.

Wanted to use a veritable for controlling a particle emitter but was having some problems getting it to work. The idea is to have various weather patterns turn on and off based on the WEATHER veritable. Seems simple but why is it not working as expected?

veritable

WEATHER = 1

WEATHER = 1 Action turn on spray particles

WEATHER ≠ 1 turn off spray particles

As soon as I enable the ≠ one it doesn't work at all even when the veritable is set to 1.

Anyone have an idea whats going on here?

drive.google.com/file/d/1aPoj75Z0VrXiAG7GfAqqNte5NdH_llYf/view

I'm sure this has been posted before but does anyone know a trick to get the click on mini-map to get the camera to scroll to a corresponding spot on the main map? Bonus question lock the mini-map selected box to the mini-map box. (Not show beyond the mini-map / canvas)

Main problem is I'm using an on drag to move the camera - but what if I want the mini-map to instant the camera to that location...

Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

drive.google.com/file/d/12okW1cR3rrM5bpDhM_CnQiAJcpNtPp7o/view

I guess everyone would need to know how the sprite is duplicated? On a click - on touched - etc?

VS using the UID You could make a instance var and and add to that. Sorry many ways to do this and I'm not an expert. Try explaining it in more detail.

Good luck

Here is a simple way of doing it - sure their is a better way:

drive.google.com/file/d/1paScc-ymfPILxSMDkR_rX7-x75vO0Ehc/view

And yes plinkie is right about the parallax

kind of abstract but lets say you have a a layout that is a map and you allow players to create features on that map - towns for example and you would want a custom layout for that "town" What would be the best way of setting this up so you could have a map with many custom "towns" that could be entered - (load that town layout)

Thinking just make a set number of blank layouts town1,town2,town3 etc?

Is their a way to create a new layout in game? Like create another "town1"?

Sorry very to be vague, Imagine a Hero's of MM or Starcraft/Warcraft type where you would have many bases or "towns" that would have custom layouts. How would you set up construct to handle this type of thing. Loading a layout on town clicked or on town entered / possibly creating dynamic layouts?

Just looking for the ideal path forward if anyone has an idea - Thanks!

Thanks Jobel,

Got your version and the original working well. I found in full screen the performance is so much better (for both versions)

So I can make a transparent sprite that the viewport always scrolls to and make some sprites on the edge of my project top, left, bottom, right that make the center sprite scroll too +/- 10 lets say and it works OK. But can someone point me in a direction of what function I should be using to make this more fluid? The current thing I'm using - on cursor over the "side" sprites is sluggish and probably wont work on every screen possibility.

How can I detect the mouse hitting the screen edge and then scroll in that direction? Preferably at the angle its hitting. So 45 at corners and 90 in the dead center + all the iterations in between.

Note I'm thinking the functionality seen in StarCraft and Civ - lots of games have this but I', not happy with my above mentioned solution.

Don't waste time please just send me to the function I should be using VS sprite collision :)

Thanks Dop2000 and Oosyag,

Those seem like great solutions. Going to have fun combining the sine, orbit and some transparent PNGs :)