Objects can belong to multiple families at once. I just plug all the sprites I want to z sort into an additional family called "Zsort" and then do the "For Each (Ordered)" method. Works like a charm.

This is fully within the realm of possibility. But you might want to wait longer than 6 hours for someone to reply with an answer.

There are a number of ways you can do this. If you're using a platform behavior character then you could have an event check to see if the player is next to a wall and presses a certain button, then the player can enter the "climb" state at which point the platform behavior is deactivated and a custom control scheme is put in place where you shift the player's Y coordinate depending upon whether the up or down controls are pressed. Things like that.

I didn't come up with a capx because I don't have the time right now, but the above is pretty much the gist of one way it could work.

EDIT: Just caught the part of your post specifying the time in the video you were looking to replicate. I thought you meant the wall climbing, but seems you meant the swinging. Good thing R0J0's on the case! <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I was just thinking that it might be pretty useful to have a condition for "Is sound with tag ("music") playing" or something similar, where the user could enter in a sound's tag as the sound to check for. If no sounds are playing with the defined tag, obviously it returns false. Inversion would be an obvious must as well.

I just came around to thinking about it when I was trying to figure out how to control music across multiple layouts. There are other ways to pull it off (global variables come to mind) but this would make it an easy one-event solution.

Any other suggestions for the Audio Object are certainly welcome in this thread.

Also, on an unrelated note, any word on the "move in front of object"/"move behind object" z-ordering actions? <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I like what you've got started with. Plays very nicely, and the graphics are lovely. I like the sound effects a lot too, staying in tune with the retro feel and everything. It was only a quick demo/tutorial, but it was strangely satisfying anyway. And the cannon is awesome.

It just feels fun. Looking forward to more.

TELLES0808

I guess I could see some usefulness in Sound Families, but I don't think they're really all that needed. Tags work really well in conjunction with global variables, and calling each individual sound isn't that big of a deal, especially since you can call sounds by name now rather than have to use a drag and drop list, in case you wanted to call sounds via variables or something. Still, it might streamline certain soundsets a bit more depending upon your project, though I doubt I'd ever have need for Sound Families (and I'm a musician!).

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Are you talking about intro tracks transitioning seamlessly into the loop section, or the loop section itself not repeating seamlessly?

For the first one, are you experiencing this while previewing or are did you play it uploaded online? I've experienced an issue during previewing where the intro and loop sections had a noticeable gap, but when they were uploaded to dropbox and played online the gap was gone. Of course, I had to make sure the loop was preloaded at the start of the layout before the intro finished so that it could just play it instantly. I also opted to import the music as "Sounds" and play them as "Sounds", mostly because I feel I get a better sound and better loop.

If you're talking about the loop having a gap between repetitions, then I don't know what to tell you. I tend to test on Chrome and all my looping tracks loop fine (at least when they're played online).

It's not that weird. When you call an animation in the Sprite's actions list it only asks for the animation name. If you have two animations in Hero sprite called Attack, which one is it supposed to pick?

Individualizing names and coming up with conventions as MelVin suggested will only help you in the long run anyway.

The folders in the sprite's animation list are there purely for organizational purposes and cleanliness. Makes it easier for you to find an animation.

Instead what you should do is

Movement

    Idle

    Walk

    Run

    Jump

Attack

    Punch_High

    Punch_Low

    Kick_High

    Kick_Low

so on and so forth.

EDIT: Just realized you also had suggested having an animation be listed as High.Attack, Low.Attack, etc... I'd have to doublecheck but I don't think you can do it that way as the Sprite animation requests a string, and strings CAN have periods in them and all manner of other characters. Also, you can't very well just leave it without the quotes and turn it into a command because High.Attack will just look for the "High" object and try to find the property "Attack". I honestly don't see any good way around it that won't call for a rewrite of the way animations and variables are called, which seems more trouble than it's worth. The method currently used is perfectly fine, and in fact encourages clean code in my opinion. Just rethink your organization.

This is really just a minor annoyance, but awhile back I got a PM from a member here, checked it, and have since deleted it and all other messages in my inbox. However the "1 new PMs" alert still hasn't disappeared after some time, even after clearing my cache. It shows up whether logging into either Firefox and Chrome. Not a big deal, just kind of annoying. I was wondering how do I get rid of it?

Hmm, that makes a lot of sense actually. One could say too much sense. <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Hope you get it figured out soon! It's a brilliant plugin. Many props to you!

Hey there! So I'm having an issue with the Pathfinder behavior. I have it set up for some NPCs to follow the player around after some interaction. There's a checkpoint system in place, and when the player dies the game recreates the positions of all the NPCs and inventory, etc...

However, after dying and having the stage restart, when the NPCs try to set their path to the player, the game gives this error:

Javascript error!

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'ts' of null

localhost/RezPathfinder_behavior.js, line 141

and a little bit about it being a bug in Construct 2 or a problem with the plugin.

This occurred in both the latest and previous releases of your behavior.

That'd be awesome.

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In the meantime, you could use Rex Rainbow's Sprite Bank to accomplish this. You'll likely want to use families to streamline it, but a combination of that and clever use of a global array could accomplish the same effect.

That's weird. I tried it but I'm not finding any issues with it at all, seems to load the same way as it starts off on.

I must warn you, this was a re-design of the engine which I never bothered finishing, so it's got some heavy bugs going on. I would also appreciate it if you didn't ask me how everything worked. But feel free to explore and use it as inspiration if you'd like.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20459682/eclipse.cap