Thanks for the heads up on NAT issues. I was using a hotspot from my phone and so not doing that appears to have fixed the issue.

I will also be checking out Photon.

I really appreciate the insight, thanks again.

Has anyone used itch.io to host an html game that uses multiplayer? Multiplayer appears to be sending messages, but not receiving them. Everything works fine when previewed remotely.

I'm working on a game similar to triple triad from FF8; any thoughts on how to make a computer player that isn't just random?

Not looking for specific events, but rather a concept of how the computer player chooses.

The bullet is already heading toward the target's xy, but I want it to progressively change toward the z position of the target at the time the bullet was fired.

Has anyone tried using chatGPT (or something else) to make an addon?

After you have programmed in a function, you use an event such as start of layout and then use the action under functions called "map function to string" you can add it to a "map" which is like a folder in my mind and then assign the string that you want to call the function. You are then able to use the "call mapped functions" action in combinations with strings, particularly helpful is from variables and arrays.

that works now too! thanks

Awesome thanks! The TileMovement one works and does what I want.

The MoveTo has the same problem; when there are no solids around, it moves diagonally.

I'm playing around with pathfinding and move to, and I can only get diagonal movement to stop happening when there is a solid near the objects.

I do have the diagonal box unchecked.

I'd probably do something along the lines of drag and drop. I would make all of the screen backgrounds into one sprite (BS1) and pin all of the other sprites to it. then create a very large invisible sprite (IS1) with the drag and drop behavior centered in the viewport

On IS1 drop

if BS1 x is between 2 values

BS1 move to appropriate position

wait for previous

set IS1 position to original position

this should create the illusion that there has been a swipe when in reality you just moved an object

the array object is great for things like this. Not sure if you want them to spawn somewhere before you collect them, but once the items are "collected", add them to the array. When you pull up the inventory window, have the objects spawn in the inventory, based on their position in the array.

short answer, the same way that you change a 2d background color. click on the layer, make sure the transparent box is unchecked and then choose your color