But that's my point, it isn't confusing at all. I inverted the statement to be a NOT condition, thus the question;

"There are NOT any bullets on the screen" should return true.

I'll submit as a bug just to see if it's me being silly or not. I hope not after 20 years of programming, lol. :)

Yeah your way works, thanks! I have to say I don't fully understand why mine doesn't work, I can't see a logic error. Do you think it should be recorded as a bug?

* NOT Bullet on-screen   < is true!

* Spacebar down   < is true!

= Spawn Bullet < doesn't happen!

Ah ok so for now I am not being silly, this is the current way it's done? Just wanted clarification so thank you. :)

Actually it's not firing any at all, and I do have the bullets set to destroy outside layout. So as far as I can see my logic *should* work.

Yours looks to be identical logic done in a different way but I'll try it anyway.. thanks. :)

Sorry I don't mean I'm literally cloning the same texture - ctrl+drag makes another instance of a texture. So I'm not creating 100's of extra objects in memory or anything. My concern was more from a GUI point of view, it's hard to "draw" my tile based map like this.

Hiya

I think this should be simple but can't work out what I am doing wrong.

On spacedown I want to spawn a bullet, but only allow one on-screen at the same time (so fire rate increases if shooting something nearby).

I thought this would work but it doesn't:

* NOT Bullet on-screen

* Spacebar down

= Spawn Bullet

Nothing happens.

Hi all

I'm making a retro top-down dungeon romp. I've noticed it feels a bit finicky trying to place all my tiles down and wondered if I'm doing it wrong? Here's what I do for "tiling":

1. Create one sprite per unique tile
2. Use ctrl-drag to clone it
3. Use grid snapping for accurate placement

It really doesn't feel intuitive compared to for e.g. RPG Maker.

Is there an easier way? Anyone got tips?

Yup it's fixed, thanks. :)

Hello, I'd also like to say I'm having problems with this bug.

Here's a capx with a demonstration.

dl.dropbox.com/u/116137178/PlatformFallThru.capx

If you jump whilst the lift moves down you'll usually fall through it.

Sorry I mean LAYOUT name not layer name.

So if I have

Layout1<>MainEventSheet

Layout2<>MainEventSheet

A global sprite with an instance variable "BoundLayout" = "Layout1"

On my main event sheet I want to "at start of layout" set any sprites that aren't on this layout to visible = false.

So then if I use global sprite objects can show/hide depending on current layout.

In an event how do I get the current layer name?

i.e. I want to compare an instance variable to see if it matches the layer name of the currently active layer. Then I can make a sprite invisible if it isn't bound to a layer.. thus retaining object state. I need to do this because I can go in and out of rooms, pickup stuff one time only.

Ah I was just wondering about this. In my case I simply want my instance variables to be persistent for each layout. So if I re-enter a room, my doors are still open and my levers are still pulled.