How do I handle a lot of corpses ? :D

Hi.

I'm working on something inspired by Crimsonland.

Crimsonland is this :

So I wonder how to have the best performances for a similar scene with construct 2.

Keep all corpses as sprites ? Or use the Canvas plugin and add each slain enemy on the canvas ?

I have been thinking about this as well (why are you looking at me like that? ) and it seems like you could use a paster object for background and paste your corpses onto it every now and then, preferably when the action allows down, like between levels. Then delete them and work on getting fresh ones.

Thank you.

I think I would have contacted the morgue.

Get a lawyer quick!

Just a guess off the top of my head but you could limit it to one or two sprites, use multiple instances of that sprite, and when they die or whatever, set that instance id to collisions disabled. That would reduce headroom a lot.

Do what Somebody said. Use paster. When you kill something then past corpses into a paster and delete the "corpse owner" or move it outside the layout (to reuse it).

You can have full red screen from blood and corpses, it doesn't matter.

Like I said in another post

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/649855

It's using two Pasters in the background. One for blood and one for bullet holes. There are no problems at all. Game runs fine on desktop (chrome, firefox, NW) and on Android Crosswalk (tested mainly on my Samsung Galaxy S3)"

That's a really clever solution, Somebody. It never gets larger than the number of pixels in your background, no matter how many corpses you paste onto it.

Does the canvas save/load alright after being modified?

That's what I did. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

http://canapin.com/construct/scarletland/08/

That's what I did. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

http://canapin.com/construct/scarletland/08/

Nice! Even now, on this stage it feels a lot like a crimsonland <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy">