I meant a string of text, which is a list (comma-separated) of enemy types.

Oh, I see. I get what you mean. Yeah, that works Really well if "find()" would just simply find what I want. That is actually great. I didn't know I can do that.

Thanks.

I would probably use a pair of text instance variables, for example:

Type="F2" (this enemy type)

EnemyList="F1,F4,F5" (what enemies are hostile to this one)

On collision with another enemy check if that's other enemy type is in the list using find(ThisEnemy.EnemyList, OtherEnemy.type) expression.

Note, that this expression only works if you have less than 10 enemy types. Also, you might want to create a family and define these variables on the family.

Huh, I can use lists as instanced variables on objects? How can I do that?

Hello everyone,

In my game I have multiple factions. And they basically have some friendships and hostileships.

So basically enemies are like this:

F1 > F4

F2 > F3

F4 > F1 and F3

F3 > Everyone.

Now in my setup, I have an object (the actual enemy sprite) and a hidden "range" sprite as child that I create at runtime so can't pre-setup it. When an object enters range, I'd like to detect which faction it is + which faction I belong to and see if it matches an enemy.

The only way I can think of this happening is to have an "id" for each faction and then have variables like "enemy1, enemy2, enemy3, enemy4" and a "selfID" in the range object. Upon collision I compare if selfID is "F1" then ignore everyone but F4 from enemy1, enemy2, enemy3 and enemy4.

But I feel this method is very crude and will end up breaking soon. Any ideas how I can tackle this so I can detect which kind of object entered and how I deal with it?

Hey everyone,

A bit of a strange question, but let's say I have a level. This level consists of 2-3 tilemap objects. These tilemaps are layered on top of each other to create the visuals of the level. Standard stuff.

However, the player is given a mechanic similar to Mario Maker; where you have some buttons these buttons are basically walls, floors, doors, etc... and the player has to reconstruct a simplified map similar to the original using these tools.

A few notes:

* The player does not need to make the map detailed. So for example let's say we have a room and in it there are 4 walls, one with a window. There is a floor with a table on it, a chest and 4 chairs. Then there is a door. The player doesn't need to replicate windows, tables or chairs. But they need to replicate the chest.

* The player isn't using the same tileset to recreate the level, they are using a different one.

* The player can modify any "tile" in their UI that is set to one thing if it is mistaken.

Now based on the above, how do you reckon I should go about this? One way I thought about this is to create an Array file and then manually type in the tiles in each index and then for the player create an Array object and add the tiles based on index. However I quickly realized this is VERY error prone. Because I could easily miscalculate the tile or in a huge map (60+ tiles) it is easy to forget or get lots as to where you were looking. Specially when the editor doesn't have any kind of "numbering" on it or any such thing.

So how would you recommend I do this in the easiest way possible while not making the process too error prone?

Thanks.

Hope that answers your questions

Very much so, thank you very much. I'll try to adjust to this new mode of thinking. Also just in case, my questions regarding performance were just to get to understand C3 more. I still don't know its performance boundaries and best practices -- the questions were to learn that is all. Thanks a lot again for being thorough with your explanation and fixing my project :D

Hey, sorry for leaving you high and dry there I had some unexpected work come up.

I have redone your ranged enemy event sheet to show you how to set up the events for what you wanted.

**Please do not save over your existing work with as I've deleted some other things just to make it easier for me. You will need to create the instance variables I have created and then copy the event sheet across.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkmrWgxeuxlKhIcbo9J75qqxC1NPvA?e=UcKtc2

The majority of your problems were just incorrect picking events and the use of "for Each" in the wrong spots meaning that it would wait for one instance to complete a bunch of stuff before it would move onto the next one.

See the notes in the project file for more info on what I have done :)

No problem, the bump was just a general bump not trying to push you to post earlier. Sorry if it sounded that way. Thank you VERY much for fixing the issues in the project.

If you don't mind I have a few questions, since I thought I understood how these things worked better than this.

- Let's start with the simple one; wouldn't 3 For Each loops be an issue performance wise?

- Same question for picking, we're doing lots of picking in this event now. Won't that be an issue performance wise since it has to pick ALL instances then filter through them? Doing that multiple times isn't an issue? Let's say I have about 100 enemies on the screen at any given one point and about 10 villagers as a worst case scenario (this of course excludes GUI, background elements, objects and VFX).

- Is setting UID to -1 wrong? I am asking because I saw you set it to 999 and I wasn't sure if UID can be set to -1 or not.

- Why did you do the pathfinding this way?

https://imgur.com/NPSyqyP

Didn't the part that says "Pick Villager" in the screenshot above already picked the villager? Why not use that then to pathfind directly instead of saving its location for later to pathfind to separately?

I am asking because I am trying to understand the mode of thinking so I can modify my own.

Thanks