[SOLVED]How do I make roller coaster loop?

The manual drawing part with the mouse is just a way to test out different paths of various shapes quickly and to test concepts. It would be possible to randomly generate a path once you decide on basic parameters of what you want, or save a path after you have drawn it and add that to your game... (the path is just a series of points - most of the paths I was trying were about a dozen or two points.)

MadSpy is doing a great job on what you are specifically after, I have seen quite a few people asking about how to make an object follow a path, and wanted to play around with a more general solution to the problem. So I had a bunch of concepts rattling around in my head - like could the path adapt itself to avoid obstacles, apply physics to the object so that it accelerates downhill and slows down going uphill, etc... Its a fun exercise to experiment on! C2 never ceases to amaze me. : )

AllanR for me the fun usually stops when smoke starts coming out of my hair when I can't figure something out, loool.

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Link updated

press space key to create

press D key to destroy random instance

Hehe, very very nice MadSpy !!:) I knew I could count on you.

One last question, can I change the speed it's traveling at, or is it tied to the distance it has to travel?

You want to change (increase or decrease) for each creation or for all objects at the same time?

For each creation would be best MadSpy .

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you have a base to start your customized "rollercoaster loop" with this capx

without plugin, less than 40 events

Haha, awesome, you'll make the credits for this one MadSpy , thank you very much!

One last question, would it still work properly if instead of UID I used a instance variable, or family or something?

I remember reading somewhere(don't remember exactly where) that UID is not very reliable, and that we should avoid using it to pick stuff.

Or is that info false?

In this case, UID doesn't cause any problems (except if I do something wrong)

Ok, great, guess I can mark this thread as solved then. Thank you once again MadSpy , I'll contact you via pm when the game gets close to release about the credits info.

ok

I hope it helps you

for interested people , I update the file here

the overlap of points A or B with other one no longer blocks the sprite on position A or B.

(C2 206 no plugin less thant 33 events)