Funny enough, the answer to your question is in the .capx you posted first.. :)

See my screenshot and you could do it like it was done there; set variable for each box to refer into specific layout.

Search for 'animation' here : Construct 2 tutorials, there are lots of good examples on various techniques.

If you want to know about drawing the animations themselves you are probably better off asking in some art related forum or using The Google :)

Not sure what your question was, but this fixes your level selection:

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19921470/LevelSelectFix.PNG" border="0" />

They are probably one level too low in scope then, screenshot of the area could help to solve this.

Oh, how I'd low to "pick [txtCharDeBug] pinned to Heroes" when f.ex. looping the Heroes... Would save tons of work, but alas....

I'd recommend you take a look at containers, they should simplify your loops. If you add hero and all pinned objects to same container then picking the hero picks all the container objects as well. Don't quote me on this though, might recall it all wrong.

Glad I could help :)

Every tick, souds a bit overkill, as the purpose is just to see which heroes are selected in the start of the game.

After that the selection area will disappear and not be used any more...

Also I'm a bit worried of "pick nearest" as heroes can, theoretically at least, overlap each other...

<-edit-> I do assign the hero UID to every object related to the hero, so I'll probably manage to cook up something<-edit->

If you have another idea I'll be happy to hear it, if not, I'm happy already. Thanks!

You should not be too afraid of 'every tick', performance wise it is trivial.

Instead of pick nearest you can use 'pick by unique id' and use the UID in the object to pick the host hero, it is cleaner solution every way.

It does work, problem is in your debug text :)

Update texts in separate events like this:

Every tick

.. For each xtxtCharDebug

.. Pick nearest Hero

..... Set text to 'Selected: ' & Heroes.Selected

You were updating the texts without picking a hero, so they were updating the status of the first created hero by default :)

Another, minor thing: I cannot seem to make local variables. The manual says that they are created under events on the event sheet. Right clicking in the root (blank area) of the sheet gives the option to create a global, which works fine for me, but right clicking anywhere else give no options for variable creation. I am just wanting a couple local variables for number crunching in a function...

You can just create a global variable and drag it inside the scope you wish to use it in, it becomes local variable. I recall V is quick key for creating variables, that works too.

So how do I reference the new instance I just created, instead of another that may already be in existence?

When you create an object, it is automatically picked so you can store it's UID to array, other object or where ever you wish to reference it later on.

I recommend you learn about picking which is really powerful tool in C2: C2 FAQ

It would allow you to neatly accomplish things like:

Pick all planets

Solarsystem = 'new system'

.. set variables

Use number variable and place all backgrounds in same sprite under separate animation frames (assuming background does not need animating).

Then do something like this:

on button pressed

.. set background to animation frame Variable

.. Add 1 to Variable

.. if Variable > number of backgrounds

... variable = 0

Hi there,

I've just met the same problem. The feeling is exactly that "wait" step is not executed in a For loop.

Any ideas? <img src="smileys/smiley5.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Wait step is actually executed, but loops actually run in single tick so every single execution waits for same amount of time.

Do your wait this way: Wait 1 * loopIndex seconds

vee41

It's a plugin bug, try to download nickname plugin again at first post. (I had changed the link)

Capx

Works like a charm now, you are the man rex! :)

Thank you!