The Daily Click

Originally Posted by superpower
- When (player) is overlapping (red box)
+ Alterable value A (of red box) = Alterable value A (of green box)
--- Destroy (green box)

Originally Posted by superpower
I've actually solved that now. I just had a bunch of events in the wrong order

However, now there appears to be yet another problem

Since my sprite is a different object to the "enemy" object itself I have used these spread value events:

- Start of frame
--- Spread value 0 in "ID" of "Enemy"
--- Spread value 0 in "ID" of "Enemy Sprite"

- Always
--- Set position of "Enemy Sprite" to "Enemy"
--- Set direction of "Enemy Sprite" to "Enemy"

But how can I make more complex things like changing between animations possible.
I now have it set up like this:

- Alterable value "Moving" of "Enemy" = 1
+ Alterable value "Falling" of "Enemy" = 0
--- Change "Enemy Sprite" animation to "walking"

And this doesn't work since MMF doesn't know which Enemy sprite needs to change it's animation sequence.

Originally Posted by Sketchy
In that case, it must be:
"If ID("Enemy") = ID("Enemy Spite")"

instead of:
"If ID("Enemy Spite") = ID("Enemy")"

The two are not the same, and I get them mixed up sometimes.
I assure you, if you have everything ordered right (it also needs to be the first condition in the list), then it will work fine, and is actually the way I would recommend.

Re: The other method I described -
As long as you don't add any other conditions which would cause MMF to focus on a specifc instance (or instances), then it will always pair objects according to how recently they were created.
If you say: "Always position Object_A at 0,0 from Object_B", then each instance of Object_A will position itself over a different instance Object_B.
The newest instance of Object_A is paired with the newest instance of Object_B; the next-newest instance of Object_A is paired with the next-newest instance of Object_B; and so on...

I think this article by Pixelthief might kind of explain it:
http://www.create-games.com/article.asp?id=1942

Re: Spread <value> in Global Value -
How would that even work? There can only ever be one of each global value.
If you mean that you want to set GV_A to 0, GV_B to 1, GV_C to 2, etc - then it's quite easy, but I don't see how it would be useful.

- Whenever
--- Start Fastloop "SetGlobal", "26" times <-- or however many global values you want to change

- On loop "SetGlobal"
--- Set Global: LoopIndex("SetGlobal") to LoopIndex("SetGlobal") <-- you need to click the "Edit" button next to the list of global values.

Originally Posted by Sketchy
"How recently they were created" applies whether the object was created at runtime or in the frame editor.
eg. Spreading "0" in four instances of an object:
3 - First instance created in frame editor,
2 - Duplicate created in frame editor,
1 - First object created at runtime,
0 - Second object created at runtime.

And yes, objects *are* assigned "some sort of number value" - it's contained within their "fixed value" (for objects created in the frame editor, it's basically the number that appears when you click on them).
http://www.create-games.com/article.asp?id=2139

I'll might have to look into this later, but for now, I don't need it.
At a quick glance though, seems like a nice article...

n/a

Originally Posted by Sketchy

+ On Loop "Check2"
+ ID("Object") = LoopIndex("Check2")
+ Distance("Object") < 100
-> the object whose ID = LoopIndex("Check1") is within 100 pixels of the one whose ID = LoopIndex("Check2")

Originally Posted by Sketchy
No, I just meant that if the other three conditions are true, then you know which two objects are within 100 pixels of each other - you'd insert you own action depending on what you wanted to happen.