Event Position/"Fusion Event Breaks"

(I was unsure of whether or not to post this in the Open Topic Community Forum, but seeing as how this forum is more active, and the topic is relevant to 2.5 I put it here. Please move this topic if it doesn't belong, thanks!)

Hello!

I had a neat idea I submitted to the bug tracker that I haven't seen posted here before (or have not noticed if it was), and wanted to share it in the hopes that it garners support/traction. That idea is: Event Position.

The premise of Event Position is that, since Fusion reads through your events/loops from top to bottom in one whole game 'loop', the user would be given control during any specific event to break the 'loop' and jump to any other event of their choosing. This would allow for much more intricate checks (think collisions when you are making a movement engine, or enemy AI for example) and greater jurisdiction over what your code does. You could use this feature to repeat sections of code, skip sections entirely, reset the Fusion loop from the start, etc. You would also be able to retrieve the line you are currently on so it could be saved to a value, that way you could skip to a line, perform whatever checks you need, then have an event that sends you right back to where you were before by retrieving. It would be very powerful and only add to Fusion 2.5 in my opinion

I'd appreciate if you all could give this one some thought, and by all means give some feedback!

(side-request: could we maybe get manual object selection reset clickteam? That'd be nice too!)

Simon, I don't think you quite understand how the feature would work.

I want the option to be on event 10, then jump to event 1 and have fusion read from 1 and keep going until it reaches the end again: basically resetting the entire game update from where I want it to be. Or if you are on 1, you can jump to 50 and read from there. I also wanted to be able to return to a stored event optionally, not by default; fast loops don't skip blocks of code, or jump back backwards (and if fusion does immediately jump up to any loop, you're still forced to return to where you left off, defeating the purpose of not reading lines), and you can't quite put "on loop" in front of every event you might want to repeat

The only way this would be possible now is through very heavy group control... and even then, you can't skip back: you would lose a frame.

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that'd definitely be a nice feature, especially for optimising on the mobile runtimes.

It definitely would be great for optimization! Especially since skipping lines would stop fusion from even performing comparisons that might be expensive that you wouldn't want tested for every frame.

Ah I'm sorry to hear that. One last question though: if the event loop finishing is an issue, would it be possible to simply exclude events from being read themselves then? That way it will still complete an update but without executing/checking certain lines. Could still emulate the original idea by just treating everything before the Target event as if it were in a closed group, then regain focus when reaching the target? Putting it that way doesn't seem like it has the potential to break anything, and it's just creatively using a feature you already have so it could be easy to implement.