Hi,

Yeah always have the loop conditions very last in the condition.

Anyhow, it's good to know that functions that run every tick shouldn't cause slowdown any more than normal conditions that run every tick.

Should Functions then be always used to complete actions that take one tick to finish?

Hi,

Is there any difference between having a subconditon action being run every tick and every tick calling a function that runs the same action?

I'm asking because for some reason the FPS seemed to drop after I changed almost all of my actions to run as functions.

Hi,

I think it could make sense storing the object related info in object variable if there is ever only one instance of that object, like a player character for example.

But if you have a project that could potentially have 100 different "unit" objects and each unit has 30 "stats" (like max hp, max mp, attack, defense etc.), and there can be several instances of one unit simultaneously on the playfield, I don't think it makes sense to use object variables for that data if the stats are universal for all object instances. It doesn't make sense that each instance would have the same data cloned to its variables multiple times instead of using a single database.

Hi,

Yes, doing a quick test with 1000 instances that have brightness and grayscale effects on vs their layer having the effects and changing the effect parameter value randomly every tick shows that using effects on layers is significantly faster.

Thanks.

Hello,

I have a cloud object that has the brightness, grayscale and luminosity effects. All the object instances are in the same layer. I have a day/night cycle and weather states that affect the effects same way equally to all instances (meaning that I could potentially use the effect in the layer instead of the object) but I also have set up conditions that affect some instance effect levels individually (clouds get individually more grayscaly as they move in distance and get a brightness flash with lightning etc.).

So I could apply many of the effects' intensity levels to the objects' layer, but I couldn't replace the object's effects completely this way. would it still likely improve performance? I read in performance tips that you should render same effects in the same layer, I'm not sure how that applies in this case.

This was perfect, thank you so much.

Finding it hard to learn these extra bits like "loopindex"

Loopindex is simply the number of times the loop has repeated. It's very useful.

Yes, that's pretty much it. Thanks.

Ah ok, you mean the download size, not RAM usage.

Purely text based game should definitely not use that that much space. Do you use many different sprite fonts?

Hi,

My problem is the "flickering line" artifact around sprites.

I know that you should leave one pixel of empty space around your sprites. Sometimes that alone does not always work when you resize your objects a lot. Leaving a lot more empty space around the sprite seems to works somewhat.

However, if I want the two objects to look like they connect to each other seeminglessly, leaving that empty space around the sprite doesn't seem to be an option. It always looks like there is a small gap between the objects, even though if you observe the size and position of the pixels of the objects, there should be no empty space between the pixels that are drawn. It seems like letting the sprites overlap one another a bit helps with this issue.

My problem is that when I use normalmap extended 2 plugin you can't really let the normalmaps overlap because that will create double lighting effect and looks bad.

Can you give any advice on how to avoid or fix these issues?