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  • 18 Nov, 2011
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  Yeah, it would make more sense if the 5 were a variable, like loopindex.

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  R0J0hound: is it possible to add a function to you Canvas plugin to retrieve the canvas' image as data (I think the best is to retrieve a base64 text string) ?

  I'm trying to add a property inside the canvas object, but it doesn't works...

  (In fact, I'm trying to implement a floodfill like there http://www.williammalone.com/articles/html5-canvas-javascript-paint-bucket-tool/, but perhaps I'm trying to climb a too high mountain...

  rgbaAt gets the color of the pixel at xy in the canvas.

  So you could to a nested loop like:

  for x=0 to canvas.width

  ->for y=0 to canvas.height

  -->system compare rgbaAt(loopindex("x"),loopindex("y"))= n do stuff

  Very slow though, and recursion will slow it a bit as well.

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  • 18 Nov, 2011
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  I think in order it would be the sine of 360 divided by 5 times "time" times 150 +280

  Dunno why you need 360/5 tho....

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  • 18 Nov, 2011
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  An easy method would be to set the the width of a tiled background object to your jump-strength.

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  • 18 Nov, 2011
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  scaffold

  cascade

  plank

  ....arrrgh

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  • 18 Nov, 2011
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  Svg uses the xml format, so parsing most of it, and then using the canvas paths should be relatively straight forward.

  The problem would be animating it, and as Ashley said making a reference in the editor. Then there are several other issues such as collision detection, etc.

  Would people use it?

  I believe so, but unlike bitmaps more detail would mean more processing time. I mean one nice looking image could have hundreds of paths.

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  • 18 Nov, 2011
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  What about the walls?

  Have you tried anything to make sure they are in the right position?

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  • 18 Nov, 2011
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  Not sure exactly what you want to do, but in general the plugs dont create objects, they only act as conditions, or triggers to make that process easier.

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  • 18 Nov, 2011
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  Here are the two plugs that can do that at the moment:

  scirra.com/forum/plugin-load-image-from-url-at-runtime_topic45799.html

  scirra.com/forum/plugin-canvas_topic46006.html

  No idea if multiple instances are doable.

  Again no collision detection, and no webgl integration yet.

  With the frames method you would simply set the frame to random(n).

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  • 17 Nov, 2011
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  Well there's always Google Chrome Frame.

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  • 17 Nov, 2011
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  Nice idea.

  Was hoping this would be doable in C2 if it ever got "for each ordered", like we have in CC.

  One thing, even in CC each tick could get bogged down if you had a lot of instances, not sure it would be viable to use it that often in C2.

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  • 17 Nov, 2011
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  Might try pixel rounding.

  That "snaps" the object to it nearest whole number, and gets rid of the decimals, IE x=1, not 1.5

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  • 17 Nov, 2011
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  At the moment the best way would be to render the sprites to a strip, and import that as frames, but as code jocks, or 'code meat heads', probably know, 700 frames is just too much to load at one time.

  Otherwise there's a plug to load images from a url, but that wont work for collision boxes.

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  • 17 Nov, 2011
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  Question is, was the texture power of 2?

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  • 16 Nov, 2011
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  When you say code, what exactly are you expecting to see?