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  • Making progress on the graphics , sloowly.

    <img src="http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/082/7/d/wip_game__2_by_johnnysix-d4tplwb.png" border="0" />

  • I made a quick example, hopefully I didn't make it too complex ahah - it's just got some stuff in there so you can customize the amount of zoom and speed, also to do it smoothly, and a little bit faster if you're rolling the mouse fast.

    http://www.johnnysix.net/games/MouseZoom/

    http://www.johnnysix.net/games/MouseZoom/MouseZoomExample.capx

  • Did you get this working?

  • Is there a difference between setting global variables in say - the "loading/title screen" layout and "level 1" layout?

    Just wondering what best practices is, I already messed up making things like the plane global objects, thinking if I were to reuse them on level2, level3 etc - they would keep the same properties.

  • What is the image format you're trying to import?

    Could you post a screenshot?

    The most reliable format is PNG format.

  • I've got a really simple example, here, 4 layouts- trying to make it restart the level, is there a way to 'reset' a layout?

    Try win the game, and restart - the buildings and the plane don't respawn, but the creatures do!?

    Online : http://www.johnnysix.net/games/imd/

    CAPX : www.johnnysix.net/games/CopterAttack14.zip

    <img src="http://www.johnnysix.net/games/imd/preview.gif" border="0">

  • If you're only moving one-dimensionally , for example if the blocks are just falling down on the Y-Axis- you could LERP instead, as this will afford you more predictable movement than phsyics, especially if you want things on-grid.

    Set Gem.Y >   LERP(Self.Y,Self.y+GridSize,1^dt)

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  • You could add a short timer that while >0 ignores scoring.

    So if it hits once, the second or third hits won't register until the timer has counted down to 0 again and triggerd scoring enabled.

  • Insert a mouse object on layer, then capture the scroll-wheel via an event.

    If you add sub-events detecting if it's going up or down, then increment zoom based on that.

    I'll do an example when I get home if no-one has done in meantime.

  • Cool - will give that a try tonight - didn't think you could check for imagepoint overlays.

    BTW - when going back to a layout, is there a way to reset it?

    When I trigger the level1 layour again, it only spawns the monsters - see the latest example - if you lose.

  • +1 for swapping/replacing the targets of actions or events rather than creating from scratch each time. :)

    This would be a time saver indeed.

  • Side-scrolling beat-em up next! :)

    You could also add some code based on y-axis for the origins of obstacles, so like streets of rage, turtles or similar, you could hide behind stuff, collect power ups. The only downside would be trying to sort z-axis if you want things like doorways etc.

    You'd have to check whatever the character was overlapping was lower or higher on the y-axis, and if lower (on the screen) set the character to the bottom.

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