Lou Bagel's Forum Posts

  • really cool intro..

    if I could vote, I will choose "Camping with Zombies"

    Haha, I forgot I wrote that. Probably won't use that since this isn't a comedic game . . . but I usually can't resist adding humor in

    Thanks!

  • I love the pixel art!!! I will definitely be following your progress!

    Thank you! If you want to see more updates/screenshots I usually try to tweet up on my twitter everytime I work on it—here more so only on big changes or milestone.

  • In regards to avoiding hangups and crashes, would it be beneficial to restart/reset or change layouts?

    Some features I'm about to incorporate I can use a hidden layer or use a whole new layout. It just popped into my mind about repetitive scripts (causing a browser warning) and the warning about a script causing slowdown—not to mention crashes and such. Makes me wonder if changing layouts is similar to navigating to a new page decreasing those chances.

    Not sure if that makes sense but thought I would put it out there.

  • Feel like I am getting close to posting a small playable demo.

    Haven't posted much because no new artwork so not much looks different

  • To all three of you, thanks for the confirmation

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  • This is the intended behavior

    Not sure it is "intended" but more necessary. Anyway, didn't figure this would be new to everyone—I may have even read that in the manual but forgot, ha

  • Not sure where to post this, don't think it is a bug but not sure it is really intended. Just felt like posting this so others are aware since it took me a little troubleshooting to figure out. (I try not to use wait anyway so am happy using different events)

    In short, if you use wait in a loop you may lose the values of the loopindex and parameters passed through function. I say may because I couldn't tell if my code was working how desired or not so used textbox to monitor—which is how I found this.

    capx: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1pq9ervg9bv8 ... .capx?dl=0

    Events:

    Result: (left without wait and right with a wait)

  • A little UI assistance at the beginning of the game

  • On layout start (or after all trees generated)

    -For each tree ordered by Tree.Y ascending

    --move to top of layer

    Trees don't move so should only have to do it once

  • There's a system condition that will tell you if the game is being run on a mobile device or not. Look in the manual for more details about it.

    Is it fairly accurate?

    I know its never perfect and a challenge to update with new systems—I remember when iphone ruined CSS media queries by marking themselves as not a mobile

  • Sorry for not looking into this myself before posting but just thought of this, not around Construct to test it, and will probably forget it soon:

    What will Mouse.X/Mouse.Y result in on devices without a mouse?

    Thinking along the lines of:

    -On Layout Start

    --If Mouse.X =! (???) then (set conditions for desktop)

    Thought this might be an easy way to detect without needing any input from user...

  • Working on a little intro:

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  • Nice! Glad you picked up on it and it works, good job!

  • ...I just want him to go to the closest one and stay there until it's down then find the next closest one that is marked...

    That would have been good to know when giving advice on your previous comments. I figured you still wanted it to be point and click so gave advice on that.

    Either way, I would make the minion into a state-machine. Something like idle->find->move->arrived->chopped->idle. You would have an instance variable for "state".

    So:

    if state=idle then set state to find and find path to closest tree

    on path found set state to move and move along path.

    on arrived set state to chopping and set timer

    on timer destroy tree, add to wood variable, and set state to idle

    (thus, since idle again would find closest tree and start the cycle over again)

    So with those events I left out arrived but depends on circumstances of what you need. Shouldn't really be too hard if you understand state-machines and can get that cycle down