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hi crash! Ok, I tested my method (I want all balls to shoot at the same time) and it doesn't work..
If all 5 "Balls" switch to the "shoot value" at the same time, the objects get created without problem, but the attributes are only distributed in one case...
I definitely will use fastloops!
Awesome, I'm glad Mobichan wrote up line-for-line how to do it.
Hopefully you should be sorted as well me for this slight workaround that we needed.
Sorry I didn't crank out an example to show you how I got it working. Have been a bit tied-up this week.
Morbus Crohn: I don't think your method will work. When you need to reference every unique copy of an object to retreive data from it, the fastloop or foreach object are the simplest way I know of. Some people have used flags to do simple object selection, but I am not well versed in that method, so maybe someone else can post about that. In general, I do lots of nested fastloops every frame in my games and never see slowdown from them. And I don't use HWA, just standard mmf2. I have no clue if the ios exporter handles loops well, but on the PC side of things, you shouldn't have speed problems.
Loops or functions are common in most languages, so I wouldn't expect any problem.
The flags method is also very slow in comparison if you're testing shedloads of objects. I don't think it's noticeably faster than values.