Thanks for the reply... i'm not sure I understand however.

All the doors are the same and simply need an open/close function.

I was hoping to keep the code as clean as possible so I could use multiple instances like in the image below:

Hi all,

I want to have multiple doors, to multiple rooms on my top-down layout (think internal doors to a house).

I'd like the player to walk up close to the door, then click 'E' to open, and 'E' again to close.

I can manage it with one door using:

distance (Player_base.X, Player_base.Y,Door.X, door.Y)

and setting it to less or equal 50

Then adding 'System > Keyboard 'E' is down' command.

My troubles start with using families and getting a function to control each UID individually.

Anyone have any tips?

Thanks in advance

Okay so i'm guessing this should be simple, but I can't quite get my head around it (newbie here!!).

So when the enemy has line of sight, I want to play the 'notice' animation for 3 seconds... then switch to the 'walking_left/right/up/down' animation depending on location.

The second part of it works fine, but since I tried adding the 'notice' animation and pause before the walking animation, it just sticks on the 'notice' animation and doesn't switch to the 'walking_' animations.

Something simple i'm missing?

Thanks for any help

Wow that sounds like a pretty comprehensive solution... and one that is a little too beyond my current capabilities at present...

That being said, what size would you consider a large, but resource friendly layout size?

Presumably I could split my map into a grid and transition between the layouts as the sprite walks beyond the boundaries?

Would this approach be possible when using multiplayer?

Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the reply...

This is interesting... it might be that I can replace the colour of sprite elements for version 1... then look at a more detailed solution in future iterations.

One more item ticked off the list :)

New to all this and loving Construct so far.

Essentially I want to make a huge playing environment for my top-down rpg-esque idea.

And by huge I mean walking from town to town huge... in an open world environment.

Is there a seamless way to do this? I can't imagine a tiled layout of 50,000 x 50,000 is going to be very efficient?

If possible i'd love to keep it all seamless?

Thanks for any advice :)

Hi all, new to this and gradually developing a game idea i've had for a while...

I'm not sure if this is possible... but is there any effective way to change elements of 2d sprite clothing?

For instance imagine a standard 2d animated sprite walking around a top-down environment.

They then pick up a white t-shirt, then a blue t-shirt... then maybe some red shoes, then some yellow shoes etc. etc.

Without wanting to make and animate all the possible variations (there would be a LOT), is there an effective way to 'layer' animations?

Thanks for any advice.