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  • 29 May, 2015
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  You should make a capx showing what you are doing.

  Post it in the how do I section with specifics on what you want to do.

  Its not exactly easy to compare multiple instances, but not impossible either.

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  • 29 May, 2015
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  https://www.scirra.com/store/royalty-fr ... basics-196

  Has a few of those mechanics, non repeating shuffle, card flick, etc.

  Id suggest frames for card flipping. Theres other methods, but they get expensive process wise.

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  • 29 May, 2015
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  You can use them together, you just can't reference the family to pick the contained object.

  Think of families as only working if they are blood related, and the non family object paired in the container is a step child.

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  • 29 May, 2015
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  krish

  Thats pretty old, but I think it went along the lines of looping over an array(for each), and setting the value to random().

  Or this:

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  • 28 May, 2015
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  https://youtu.be/rH-B6A04iK0

  Someone ask the blackmagic specialist if they have anything for spam.

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  • 28 May, 2015
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  I think this is the first plug for the internet of things.

  Although I do remember someone wanting to do something with arduino.

  Congratulations.

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  • 27 May, 2015
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  Nope. You said you can't use a tmx because it uses layers, but instances can work exactly the same way.

  If fact you could probably get away with using clones if you load the leave the texture out, and load it at runtime.

  Frankly I don't see why you can't use it this way unless your argument is that it takes too long to load separate layers.

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  • 27 May, 2015
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  And here's the instanced version:

  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/666 ... edMap.capx

  Took about 5 minutes

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  • 27 May, 2015
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  I just used instances to add multiple layers of the rougelike tile map from Kenny.

  The zip uses clones.

  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/666 ... tances.zip

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  • 27 May, 2015
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  Probably this decade.

  Certainly this century.

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  • 27 May, 2015
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  A way to arrange tiles like a data import at runtime might be nice.

  Something like importing a small portion of a map, as an object, say a castle using events.

  I realise it will be rejected here obviously, but it would be useful elsewhere.

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  • 27 May, 2015
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  It depends on the game.

  A 3d fps with buildings for example. Lots, and lots of layers of textures not needing to be seen.

  Perhaps isometric would benefit, or maybe Spriter objects.

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  • 26 May, 2015
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  Sounds about right. Animation is mostly tackled by the gpu, and the bottlenecks are usually cpu, and/ or logic related.

  While multi-object animation will have a bit more draw on the cpu, there is a good chance you wont notice frame skips like you would with... frames.

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  • 26 May, 2015
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  Sorry, not a bug.

  By definition of each association it can't work.

  Containers can have any two different objects paired together. Picked, created, and or destroyed, when something happens to one, it happens to the other.

  Families can only be by object type, due to the fact that not all objects can be referenced in the same way.

  That would be like having an array in a container with a sprite, and in a family, then saying when touched family, array set position to....

  This is a feature request, and it's been requested a lot.