dop2000's Forum Posts

  • If you want to duplicate the dragged sprite, you can just create a copy of the sprite in the slot.

    Another option is to use an invisible sprite for dragging, and you can attach anything to it with hierarchy or Pin behavior.

  • You can multiply the score by 1000 before submitting. And then divide by 1000 when displaying.

  • That seems like a poor data organization to me - why do you have so many instance variables on the array? Why don't you store these values in the same or a in different array, or in a dictionary?

    Anyway, you can copy these values to a dictionary and save the dictionary in Local Storage. When loading - copy them back from the dictionary to instance variables.

  • In the last condition you want to pick the Turrets instance.

  • Could it be a type mismatch? Say, the instance variable is a number, and the "id" in JSON is a string?

  • If you see memory usage increasing over time while the game is idle - it's a memory leak.

    But 100 MB for images should not crash a phone. I’ve made many mobile games in the past that used 300–500 MB for images, back when most budget phones only had 1–2 GB of RAM, and they ran just fine.

    Collect the LogCat log of the crash, you should be able to see what caused it.

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  • Do you see that images only use 100 MB in the debugger? That's very modest memory usage, it should not crash a phone with 4GB of RAM. The issue must be with something else. Try collecting LogCat logs.

    If you need all cards (20 animations with 180 frames each) to be available on the same layout, then you’re right: splitting them into separate sprites won’t help.

    The only real option (if the art style allows it) is to break each card into smaller pieces — for example, a shared border/background sprite used by all cards, plus a smaller unique image for each card.

  • Each animation contains 100-200 frames, and these are the same 105x131 images.

    Just to clarify - the size is the same, but the images are different in each animation, right?

    A quick test shows that 1000 frames with that resolution use about 80-85 MB in memory. So your game should probably run fine, even on mobile. But I would try to reduce the number of frames in animations, 200 frames feels like a lot.

  • Add a Priority instance variable to the family, say, from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest). Then you can use the Pick lowest condition: 

    For each Enemy
Enemy has LineOfSight to Object
Object pick instance with lowest (distance(Object.x, Object.y, Enemy.X, Enemy.Y)/Object.Priority)
... Enemy Move to Object

    Say, object A has priority 2 and is 100px away, object B has priority 5 and is 300px away. Object A will be picked.

    You can tweak the formula if needed.

  • The easiest solution is to store the puzzle number in a variable. Then, to move to the next layout use "Go to layout by name" action: 

    Add 1 to puzzleNumber
Go to layout "Z1-P"&puzzleNumber

    Alternatively, you can extract the current puzzle number from the current layout name: 

    Set puzzleNumber to int(tokenat(LayoutName, 1, "P"))
Go to layout "Z1-P"&(puzzleNumber+1)

    To avoid duplicating this logic in every layout, use a shared event sheet for all layouts, or place it in a separate sheet and include it in each layout’s event sheet.

  • First of all - never use "Trigger once" condition with objects that have multiple instances.

    You need to make sure that your ghosts can actually find a path. The easiest way is to add some visual feedback. For example: 

    Ghost On path found → Ghost set opacity to 100
Ghost On failed to find path → Ghost set opacity to 30

    If you see that them turning semi-transparent, try tweaking the pathfinding settings, such as cell size or padding.

    Once you fix that problem, I suggest you use MoveTo behavior for movement, it's more accurate. And it has "Move along pathfinding path" action.

  • Yeah, the Timer behavior would be the best option. The code is very simple - in event 23 start the timer, and add another (top-level) event:

    Enemy On timer set weakened to false

    In the future avoid using "Wait" action in events which can run on every tick - this will always cause troubles.

  • Move these two actions into event 23: 

    Wait 4 seconds
LargeE Set Weakened to false

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