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EDIT: Figured it out! I just added on this "+ get tile animation offset (animation pattern, layer)" to account for the animation frame if anyone was wondering. Thank you. So using the code you gave I was able to reveal that the animation tiles were always equal to 181, not 183. This is bec...

I am attempting to get the following script to work in my game. I have an animated set of tiles which is meant to look like a spike popping in and out of the ground. I only want this spike to harm the hero when it is out of the ground so I have made this script: script, harmSpike, begin if(r...

Cool, it'll be good to see the script. Also you should post a video or gif to show off the visuals if you have time to.

Hmm that movesliceto function seems useful, I'll have to keep that in mind for my own game. Thinking further on this I think doing this mathematically may have some advantage. If for example you're making a tank game in which players take turns shooting projectiles through the air at one another the...

Oh my bad, I got TMC and BMR mixed up. The guys with the 3-Letter names, I mix them up all the time.

Yeah I assumed 2D coordinates too. My method will work for shooting enemies up on a hill, it just requires a collision detection script in the autorun script's while loop, which checks for collisions between the arrow and the enemy each tick. I think using a collision detection would make msw188's s...

Yeah it's the simplest way I know, I plan to continue using this concept for the rest of my own game. Another great thing about using a timer with phases is that you can increase the number of phases and update the arrow's sprite art each phase, thus making it look like the arrow is always tangentia...

If you want a projectile to follow a perfect parabola there's a very simple (non-mathematical) way to do it. Say for example you want the "arrow slice" to move 5 tiles to the east following an arc. Just spawn an NPC who is invisible at the origin of where the arrow should start. Create the...

I would, only it's difficult with the way my games scripted. For example I need a script which shoots bullets from a player, then one which checks if that bullet collides with anything that can be killed and destroys the slice if necessary, then a timer that destroys the bullet if it's been on scree...

Actually my script does use global variables for zeroing freed slices and each of my enemies is represented by a separate unique NPC.

It would likely be from multiple scripts running. I've made sure that everywhere in my code that frees a slice has line that sets that variable to zero in the following line.

So if it is multiple scripts running then is there a good way to solve this?

I figured it out, kind of... Thanks to the slice tree I narrowed the script down to about 1000 lines of code in which the error may be occurring. The slice being produced was actually a Laser from an NPC who I had already destroyed. I had conditions to make sure that NPCs shooting script could not c...

I just noticed this weird problem in my game. In the game I have guards which walk around and shoot you if you are in their line of sight. The lasers they shoot are coded to originate from the NPC, this seems to always work. But occasionally when I face certain directions with my hero while they are...

Well, for myself, the main advantage of keeping enemies and projectiles as siblings in my own scripts is that I can easily loop through them and run scripts that update them each tick. That might not be something you want to do for your game, so you might prefer to stick with the parenting methods ...

I'm assuming the advantage of using siblings is that since every bullet shares a common parent then altering that parent can alter all the bullets at once?

Thanks for the response. I'll hopefully get around to trying this soon since I've been making good progress on enemy creation.