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  • I have a small issue with camera currently, wonder if anyone can shed some light to this:

    I use "Is on-screen" to spawn enemies.

    I have a camera object with "scrollTo"

    Whenever entering a scene, all enemies between the top left corner of the scene and the start position of the player get spawned. It's as if the scrollTo goes over the whole scene from the default position even if I set the position to player "on start of layout"

    I know the camera will always start in the top left corner. I used to lerp() the camera to the player and when starting it would pan from the top left to wherever I started the player. Maybe a simple fix is to have the spawn events in a group which you have disabled. Then enable the group after the camera gets set to it's beginning location. Does that sound practical?

  • I wasn't always a fan of pixel art. But I like all of them.

    Need a water cooler or a police station.

    Ha, thanks!

    Police station?

    And I have worked on water cooler:

    https://twitter.com/loubagelcombo5/status/751822724020834305

    (sorry, no image uploaded right now and on my phone)

  • Would just do "Player is on Ground" simulate Jump

    That way the cycle won't be broken if it misses a trigger

  • Maydie can you have the sprites invisible and turn them visible when needed? Or have them off screen and set their location? I don't think spawning 600 sprites at once is a good idea

  • 99 dollars? Do you mean 99 cents? LOL

  • > You can definitely use php to send an e-mail from a server. You can redirect using the browser events.

    >

    I am not a programmer

    and I don't know such things how to do

    For Browser:

    • Double Click layout screen
    • Add Browser
    • On events page add the action to change/redirect URL

    For PHP:

    • Typically you would have your own server/web hosting but there may be free ways you can use other servers for this. So google a solution for that if you don't have your own hosting
    • Go go layout screen, double click and add AJAX
    • On Event page use AJAX to send POST
    • Google a php template for e-mail or look for a tutorial on here. It may look intimidating if you don't know anything but you usually don't need to change anything at all except the names of the variables (to match what you send in the AJAX post) and maybe deleting some fields/variables you don't need (CC; BCC; Senders name; Subject; etc depending on template you choose)

    Using PHP to send e-mail is very common so many tutorials out there and using AJAX in construct to send data to a PHP script is fairly common and have seen several tutorials and posts.

  • Just had a thought and wondered if anyone else has done it or thought it through:

    For an RPG style game would it make sense to use pathfinding for the NPCs?

    Think like in a town and cut scenes, as in not action. That way when you want to have them move they will move around the player and other NPCs instead of in the classic RPGs where random townspeople would run into you and walls and such.

    This would mean having to give the player and all NPCs the solid behavior, correct? Will that have any unwanted affects?

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  • — I think that is the easy way but idk i will try it, i will come back!

    I was actually asking a clarifying question. You say you don't want them to collide/overlap, which to me those are two separate things. Collide would be bouncing off each other where overlap does not. So I was asking if you wanted neither to happen and them to avoid each other in pathfinding.

    One simple thought would to be make use of the pathfinding cost. So if after one instance choose a path add cost to that path to encourage others to choose a different path.

    If your layout isn't too maze-like (not too many obstacles) I would think about ditching pathfinding behavior and make some events to avoid obstacles. Something as simple as pick nearest (obstacle) instance, if angle(player.x, player.y, obstacle.x, obstacle.y)-player.movement.angleofmovement is between -15 and 15 then alter the course could work.

    These suggestions won't make the AI look as intelligent as some of the more elaborate suggested solutions. But you may want to take that into consideration, the intelligence of your enemy, when designing the AI for it. If low intelligence or making a goofy game you can have the object change course on collision even. If this is for a zombie wouldn't you rather have it running into stuff instead of flawlessly navigating a maze-like layout?

  • You can definitely use php to send an e-mail from a server. You can redirect using the browser events.

  • Do you mean they don't collide as in they avoid each other? Or take an alternate route if other zombie is already taking a route?

  • Speaking of server, tt seems like the only foolproof way to make a game like that is to store some info on a server.

  • Nice going there man!

    Having those default values stored as instance variable of the player sprite would make the most sense, as those values are directly tied to how that particular sprite behaves. However, global variables or a dictionary wouldn't be bad either. So I guess in the end it all boils down to what you prefer.

    Thanks!

    Another option I may just take is make a function for each (setSprintSpeed; setWalkSpeed; etc).

    I have a list of issues I need to work out, especially with the sprint (using x button), but thought I would share a link anyway to what I have right now: (sometimes its fun to see the progress)

    http://loubagel.com/archives/louPlatform/080716/

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