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  • Impressive. I should log in more...

    Maybe if I write an automation script to log me in everyday. But why stop there, I could also make it reply to a random topic with some random Chinese proverbs. Either that or pm newt everyday with a random name of a cheese and see if I can sway his eating habits...

  • So my brother acquired an old g4 imac and I've been tinkering with it. It has osx 10.1 so I can literally find no software for it. Not to mention browsing with internet explorer is painful since most sites don't load right. I may add that I won't be putting any money into it since it only cost 6$.

    So my question is what could be done with it? Or what would you do with it?

    So far I've:

    * Booted into the bios and amused myself programming in FORTH and trying to boot from usb and cd.

    * Tried using Linux on it. Driver support is atrocious and coaxing linux to a working state, is too tedious for my liking.

    * Found I could install an apple compiler suite that predates Xcode. So if I was so inclined I can now make apps, that would only work there, from what I can tell.

    Now it's serving as a decorative paper weight, and I'm looking for uses or ideas for it's fate.

  • From the manual a common expression is .asjson and there is also the common action "set from json".

    I haven't used it myself yet but I believe it can be used to clone object state.

  • If the balls are the same size you can do this:

    dropbox.com/s/y5jkdqtcur8n2bm/collisionPoint.gif

    Or if they're different sizes:

    dropbox.com/s/bv5djkudta7fni6/collisionPoint2.gif

  • One thing you can do is incorporate dt in the move forward action. The frame time can fluctuate from frame to frame and dt is the current frame time.

    So instead of 1.3 use 1.3*60*dt.

  • Here is a way I did it in a project I did:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/542 ... _menu.capx

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  • The camera object should have an expression to get the image URL. You can then use that with the load animation frame action of sprites. After that just position that sprite over the canvas and use the canvas' paste action and you should be good to go.

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  • You could do it by just comparing the distance from the enemy to the player. Accelerate if the distance is greater than a radius and brake if less.

    If you'd be happy with orbiting in a circle you could use the "move at angle" action on the enemy when they're closer than the radius and use enemy.angle-90 for the angle and say 100*dt for the distance.

  • I thought saying Game Over was the end.

  • [quote:3dddxys4]* Move the horizontal and vertical lines in a controlled and defined manner.

    Well you have a start point (where you started touching) and a end point (where you're currently touching). You could calculate the angle from start to end and use some choose a direction if the angle is close to 0, 90,180 or 270. There are conditions that help with this.

    [quote:3dddxys4]* Create this line, as the player moves on the field.

    Every time you move create a circle at the player. For the line between the dots you can make a rectangle sprite with it's hotspot left-center. It's height should be the diameter of the circle and it's width should be the distance between one move to another. So you create this sprite at the player and set it's angle toward the previous circle. You have the direction moved so you can add 180 to that to get the angle.

    [quote:3dddxys4]* Recognize what is going right and left.

    Beyond visualization, which the previous question had a solution for, you can store the inAngle and outAngle in instance variables of the circles. Just set them in the moving stage.

    And my experiment of the day trying out some different ideas.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/yi7fthhebl9nt ... .capx?dl=1

    /examples24/flowfree.capx

    Not really helpful, but it has an amusing flaw.

  • It's the same reason all the pieces are all red. The "Pick all" condition doesn't pick objects that were created on that frame. This was a change that occurred a long time ago. Events 22-24 need reworking to fix it.

    Change it from this:

    To this: