I have the following events:

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30864403/constructcode.jpg" border="0" />

And the LOS function that is called is the one found in the third post by tulamide here:

scirra.com/forum/solved-custom-lineofsight-issue_topic43661.html

Here's an image of its code

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30864403/constructcode2.jpg" border="0" />

The LOS checks if a member of the family NonPlayers has LOS on a member of the family called Players.

The issue is that if I move a Player with ClassID=2 into LOS of a NonPlayer, it still acts as if I moved the Player with ClassID=1 into LOS (The toggled off Debug Text also reports 1 for ClassID when I turn it on), as if picking isn't working with the For Each. Why is that?

Thanks for any help, and let me know if you need any more info. Sorry I'm not sure how to post bigger images, but if you copy the image url and paste it in a new tab you should be able to see it better.

Is it possible to sort things in S? Specifically, I have the following setup:

{"SuperArray","SubSuperArray","NumberArray"} and each "NumberArray" has 2 values. I want to take the second one of those values (at index 1) and use it to sort the various NumberArrays. Is that possible without writing some sort of sorting algorithm and a separate structure to hold the values? (I want to basically access value 1 in each NumberArray" in the order determined by value 2)

Ah great, thanks. Is it possible to resize the tiled background texture? I want to use the images in a couple of places with different sizes and I'd rather not make copies just for that. If not I can try the Unique sprite plugin.

HMM seems like the image scale changes the image size but it seems unintuitive how I have to offset it. At 0 0 offset the image is off center regardless if I set hotspot and image point to 0, 0 or to the center of the image.

Edit: Ahh figured out to offset by the amount I'm resizing and it works good, thanks :)

I think I asked a similar question about this and forgot the answer, and can't find it in the forums so here it is, possibly again.

I'm using Create Object at runtime to create some sprites from the same object and using the Load Frame from file to set their picture. This sets teh same picture (the last one loaded) to all sprites. I'm sure this has to do with the fact that they're all instances (I remember this being the reason from my prior post anyway) but I forgot what to do about it. Do I just not use sprites and use a different object?

I see, thanks for the input, sounds like I need to use a variable as you mentioned because I do need to see how much time is left. Thanks!

I'm making a game which runs in real-time and not turn-based. With the help of this community and the S plugin I've managed to finish the guts of a semi-complicated ability system (yay, thanks!) but ran into an issue in putting finishing touches on it. I need to create a cast time for each ability. Each character and NPC can use one ability at a time that takes some pre-set time to use. I was wondering what the most accurate way to implement this would be.

I've read about issues with frame-rate and timers, which I would like to avoid. In addition, I read that using the timer behavior can cause issues when dealing with multiple instances of an object, or something of that nature, and that "Every X" command botches picking.

Not sure what other issues there are, but what would be the best way to implement a cast-time when an ability is used so that:

1. The timer is as accurate as possible since it will be necessary for balancing issues

2. The timer avoids known bugs

3. The timer preserves the real-time nature of the game so that other events can run freely while the timer counts down.

4. The timer works with instances of the same object.

Thanks for your input :)

Hmm ran into another problem:

Make Super Array {""}: "NPCDebuffs" with default 0

For Each NonPlayers (this is a family)

->S: insert super "default" to {"NPCDebuffs"}

->S: Make Super Array {"NPCDebuffs", S.sule({"NPCDebuffs"})}: str(NonPlayers.UID)

->DebugText: Set text to DebugText.Text & str(S.sule({NPCDebuffs",str(NonPlayers.UID)})) & " "

This will cause a crash. But if I put in the UID of the lowest NonPlayers object ("290" in this case), it works correctly. If I put in any of the other ones ("293", "296", "299" in this case), it will crash.

However, if I check the Size-1 of the "NPCDebuffs" super, it is actually 3, which is correct. So I guess the arrays are not being named correctly for whatever reason. Is there some way I can check the names ?

if I change ->S: Make Super Array {"NPCDebuffs", S.sule({"NPCDebuffs"})} to remove the S.sule, then it works. So I guess I'm still missing how this works conceptually speaking.

One other issue, is that if I try to get the size-1 of an array that's empty, I get a very large number. Is there some other way to determine if an array is empty?

Ok I figured out how to do what I want. I didn't realize that array names and indices are not interchangeable (e.g. that if you want Value 3, in Array2, located in Array1, you don't do {"Array1",0,2} but you do {"Array1",0,"Array2",2}) but instead you specify the name of the array, and then the index you want. That was a bit confusing to me but I see why it was done the way it was and it is clearly the best way to do it even if unintuitive to noobs like me at first.

However, it seems that "end" doesn't work in the {""} address method. Instead, I have to do something like {"Array1",0,"Array2",S.sule({"Array1","Array2"})) to get the last element in Array2 or to add elements to the last structure in Array2 (note that this is different from adding to the last element in Array2 in which case you can add to "end")

Well it works, yay. If there's a better method to refer to the last element in {""} notation that would be great, I tried to parse the tutorials for the 50th time in figuring out my issues, but I seem to lose track and get confused of how this works :)

Hmm, how to reference the specific string array then?

So I have a Super "ASDF"

String array "stringasdf1"

String array "stringasdf2"

...

String array "stringasdfN"

Each has 3 strings in it.

I want to loop through the string arrays in "ASDF" (so not through the actual strings, but the arrays 1 to N themselves). However, I don't actually know the names ahead of time and there can be a wide variety of names, so I want some numerical or loop-based (e.g. current array in loop, loopindex, etc) way to access them. however, if I do:

{"ASDF","stringasdf1",1} this works but

{"ASDF",0,1} this doesn't work (or also loopindex instead of 0 doesn't work). How do i go about doing this?

I also tried using "l" but it's also crashing so I must be doing something wrong. I did this:

For Each Super in "ASDF"

S.s({"ASDF","stringasdf1",0}) ####This works

S.s({"l","loopname",0}) ####This crashes.

Thanks for the reply. And sorry for the late response, I do read and appreciate all help, but as I said in another thread, I work on my game on and off in a casual pace :) I will give it a shot, I misunderstood how S works with loops, but now I think I get it.

But I was actually trying to loop through the string arrays that are part of "ASDF", so I guess instead I have to loop through using the Super loop right?

I'm having a problem with loops:

->Make Super Array {""}: "ASDF"

->Make String Array {"ASDF"}: "stringasdf" with default 0

+"asdfloop" For Each String at {"ASDF"}

This causes a crash.

Had a chance to give it a try now and it's even better than I thought. I can just name the arrays things like str(Object.UID) so i don't even have to search for them with a loop. Thanks!