Card Game

Hi guys,

I just downloaded construct 2 and it looks really fabulous. However I'm not too sure if it is really designed for what I had in mind. I have already developed a few card games in java/swing and so as a warm up I would like to have a go at this as my first project.

   From what I have seen would I have to crate 52 sprites with each one having its proper set of events which seems to be a bit of a nightmare or is it possible to have just 1 card sprite and to spawn 52 cards with different characteristics i.e. different graphics, instance variables to represent its suit and value etc.

   Secondly would i be able to drag and drop each one of these individually around the screen?

Cheers for any input.

Try making one sprite with 52 animation frames for each card. Set the animation speed to 0, then just use 'set animation frame' to change the card.

Sounds like a plan! Thanks for the idea I'll try it out straight away.

Ok I tried this out and it worked like a dream however (funny how there is always a but) I did the following little project to test it out so with 1 sprite and 52 animation frames and then when I did a mouse click i would spawn a card incrementally at the mouse location.

It worked like a charm but something weird happens as i click from about the 10th card onwards the card spawning time grows exponentially longer so by about 15 spawns i'm waiting like a minute to see the card (in chrome) here is the coding: original card sprite is invisible to start off with a global integer called cardNb.

<Mouse> <On any Click> <Card> Spawn Card on layer 1

                        <Card> set animation speed to 0

                        <Card> set visible

                        <Card> set position to (Mouse.x, Mouse.Y)

                        <Card> set animation frame to cardNb

                        <System> add 1 to cardNb

Have I coded something wrong or is this just a performance limit and so I could never have 52 cards spawned?

Regards

It's best to post your .capx file for Ashley or someone else to check out (if you don't mind others looking :D).

I've spawned HUNDREDS of Sprites each with individual actions and private variables and the game still ran fine... so maybe it's just a little glitch somewhere.

ok no problem except what is a .capx file and how do i post it? <img src="smileys/smiley5.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

cheers

.capx is the format of your project when you "Save as a single file" (basicly a .zip of a folder project).

To post it, check out this tutorial about dropbox.

Great I just learnt something new! Ok here is the link if anybody is

interested:

dl.dropbox.com/u/47181564/Solitaire.capx

I disabled the animation frame incrementation so now it basically just

spawns a king of hearts. When run just click on the green back ground and things should start slowing down around 15ish.

Cheers

I found the problem -- the event that says "Card - Spawn card etc. etc.". If you set text to display the number of cards, you'll see it's actually spawning in powers of two; 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, until it reaches THOUSANDS of cards spawned in the same spot every time you click. Hence the slowdown. <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

You can fix it by switching out that line for "System - Create Card at Mouse.X, Mouse.Y". Accomplishes the same thing without that messy situation!

Wow thank you Mr Sully The Strange! Onward with the adventure!

Just one last question is it normal that it spawns in powers of two? <img src="smileys/smiley5.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Just one last question is it normal that it spawns in powers of two? <img src="smileys/smiley5.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Probably shouldn't use spawn to create a duplicate. Try the system objects "create object" instead.