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  • Global object type? Type as in array, sprite, 9-patch etc, there would be extra global item? What would it do besides being global?

    Or you mean global family, where one could add all objects, so all objects could be picked as opposed to picking only one object type?

    The last one would be absolutely useful as I need to check if mouse is over any object regardless if it is sprite, 9-patch etc.

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  • Construct is easy enough. You would probably spend more time on promting than setting up a game. I don't see the reason why not just complete a couple of tutorials and learn the damn thing. Took me half an hour to get the gist of it. Construct is really good for learning how programming works.

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  • It is very hard to understand what you are describing.

    Perhaps write it down in a sequences of actions like this, and we can better understand what you want to achieve:

    1) A collides with enemy

    2) Something happens with B

    3) Something happens with C

    etc

  • ...each ingredient in the menu has a certain value and if it adds up to another value it creates a new food. But how do I make the food created be identified as correct if it matches what the customer ordered ...

    Is the order of ingredients also important or not?

    For easy debugging, I would use strings. So the customer order would be a value like this: "ketchup_fries_salt".

    You can separate cooking process into steps/actions, each step adds a bit of string to existing string like this: new food == food & "_" & "ketchup", and then: food == new food.

    In the end you compare the food string to customer order string.

    If the ingredients are in any order, you can separate the strings via delimiter into an array or list and loop through that.

  • Using global variables for setting individual instances seems like a bad practice, prone to bugs. It would work only with one object, or rest of the code must be in sync very well.

    Your solution works better if the global variables were instance variables instead, and instance ID is passed to function. Doable.

    I also thought about parsing string, but I have had to done this before and this can be come very messy really quick, ugly.

  • I would like to return X/Y coordinates in a function, but C3 only seems to allow one return value per function. How do I return pairs, vector2? Or is it possible to return an array or list?

  • I have situation like this.

    1) How do I pick the object that is colliding?

    2) How do I pick the object that is collided into?

    3) What happens when both objects are colliding into each other, how do I choose objects then?

  • This keeps reseting to float. After restarting C3, it resolved.

  • I have string in a variable. I want to set the text typewriter length according to the length of the text.

  • How could I have a version with original files if the file names are changed the moment I dragged them to project via animation window? I have c3 file online, saved as catalogues locally. Even so, having multiple project windows open just to not have files renamed seems like a hack for a problem that should not exist in a first place? Or am I understanding something wrong? I don't recall any other engine that automatically changes the names of assets without user consent.

    Having to manually rename 50+ files each time I make changes seems enough chore to ditch the engine.

  • What do you mean old version?

    I don't have an old version. I dragged my sprites into animations editor and set the animations manually, but this also renamed the files. The only old version I might have is the one without animations.