there ya go

avoidBalls.capx

I think I understand what you want to do.

You want basically pick the soldier that possess the crosshair

You can do that quite simply like that :

create two instance variable for the crosshair object:

• soldierUID type number default 0
• firing type bolean default false

Global variable crossDist = 100  // Distance between soldier and crosshair
System: On start of layout
   -> destroy crosshair
   System: Foreach Soldier
      -> System: create crosshair on layer 0 at cos(soldier.angle)*crossDist,sin(sodlier.angle)*crossDist
      -> crosshair: pin to Soldier
      -> crosshair: set sodlierUID to Soldier.UID
System: Every tick
   -> crosshair: set firing to false
crosshair: is overlapping Soldier
   -> crosshair: set firing to true
crosshair: is firing
soldier: pick instance with UID crosshair.soldierUID
      -> Sodlier: spawn Bullet
      -> Bullet: set angle to Soldier.angle

No no you can't, seriously... falling M&Ms are copyrighted by me over 16 generation =D

Hehe... Of course you can and glad you ask (:

Right! I just read the title of the topic... :D

Well what I meant is that, what you describe seems normal. So I guess you're being too enigmatic :D

And post your capx while you're at it

Parsing a complexe JSON string with only c2 string manipulation functions might be a bit overkill.

JSON itself handle such thing as object, you won't really need in c2.

(Unless you do complicated stuff inside custom made plugins maybe)

My advice: use something a bit simpler like CSV, there's even a plugin for that : http://www.scirra.com/forum/plugin-csv_topic46096.html

Isn't that great? :D

I made a little change on mine, deleted 4 collision polygon points, and by making the polygon a bit smaller you have now nice overlapping when leaves are grouped together.

Still M&Ms though

fallingLeaves.capx

But well... falling leaves aren't really weather effects in my opinion.

What did you have in mind tastyguy ?

Just destroy the 'pilotInPlane' Sprite and spawn a new 'PilotOut' sprite with physics.

Game programming often requires some tricks (:

In the end that's what the player sees that matters.

I think you can use the same trick as what I use with the platform behavior

set a JumpCap instance variable (the value should be tweaked by trial and error)

and in event

Keyboard: [invert] Space is down
LocalYVelocity < JumpCap
    -> set LocalYVelocity to JumpCap

Never used the touch object, but I think you can emulate that by keeping trace of the mouse position, comparing values from one tick to another and then if the velocity is high enough during a certain amount of time, you have successfully swept (: