and the change of speed is important to avoid losing trajectory

If what you want to do is knowing what is the card you have, don't forget that just the number 0 to 51 can represent it, 'cause a deck of classical card is just a grid. you have color (spades (?), hearts (?), diamonds (?) and clubs (?)), on the rows and values (1,2,...,Q,K,A) on the columns

So basically if you choose to order things like in your animation in the Card sprite :

for colors

• 0 = clubs
• 1 = diamond
• 2 = hearts
• 3 = spades

for values

• 0 = 2 (ok it's a bit counter intuitive but heh...)
• 1 = 3
• ...
• 12 = K
• 12 = A

so you have a grid with 4 rows and 13 columns

the number 0 = the 2 of clubs

the number 51 = the Ace of spades

So basically you don't need any 3 dimensionnal array, all the informations are in the number representing the card

You just have to extract it as I did for placing cards

CardDeck.At(DeckCardNumber) is the number

to get the value it's like the X calculation

value = CardDeck.At(DeckCardNumber)%13

color is like the Y calculation

color = floor(CardDeck.At(DeckCardNumber)/13)

then you have your card (:

let's try the number 16

value = 16%13 = 3 it's a 4

color = floor(16/13) = 1 it's a diamond

16 = 4 of diamonds

easy peasy :D

(: glad you like it, hope you understood how it works

well... your event sheet is a mess

bring the capix I'll show you

Ok RingtailCafe so your way is better until a family system (:

(or maybe you put all the behavior in the sprite and activate/deactive the one you want to use depending on th ID... should work :D)

Maxum, your way to shuffle is awesome. I never thought of something like that to permutate stuff around the first index from loop to loop is great.

I would have done something like keeping a string of 52 tokens and just pick randomly each token, fill the Array and delete them, until there's no token to pick.

But your way is far better.

The rest of the code is a bit heavy though, so let me show you how to simplify :

shuffleCard.capx

in just 14 events

vidi I don't know if there's a tuto, but in short you can set value to indexes like X or X,Y or X,Y,Z

Array is just a data container. Test some stuff and come back with question if you don't understand what's going on.Yann2011-11-05 13:24:37

Well, every body's waiting for the "family" feature to come (:

Families will allow you to "group" same kind of elements (sprite or tiled background, or text) under the same name and manipulate shared properties (similar instance variable and behavior) as I did here. Just, as ou said, these element will be able to have different behaviors/variables.

Pode: you mean... the car in the other thread about car AI ?

hop! That's for you

canonBall.capx

ok the forum ate my explanation ;_;

just take that and be appy

carAI.capx

Set layer 0 scale to layerscale(0) + 0.3*dt

Hey thanks for the tip. Changing character like that can trigger cool gameplay idea

I looked at how you did it and it made me want to make my own.

It's just 4 events, and as long as there's no family system, it is easier to use if you want to add other gameplay logic like life/death system.

You don't need to do things 3 times for each character.

CharacterChanging.capx

Your game has enemies that shoot horizontally, And I can more or less feel that you only want the enemies to shot when you are at their level.

The easiest way to achieve that is to put some invisible detection box that will do the work for you.

And I think you can make the system work with :

Every Tick 
      -> Enemy.active = false

detectionBox is overlapping Player
detectionBox is overlapping Enemy
---System : compare Abs(Player.X-Enemy.X)<200
      -> Enemy.active = true

Is Enemy.active
Every 1 seconds
---Player.X > Enemy.X
      -> Spawn Bullet
      -> Bullet set angle to 0
---Player.X < Enemy.X
      -> Spawn Bullet
      -> Bullet set angle to 180