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Hi
I have a 'Ball Object' which falls down from the top of the screen.
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1 - As the first specific Ball Instace enters the Frame, i want 4 other Ball Instances to be created at its possition.
2 - I also want the new Ball Instances to inherrit any AltValues from the Original Ball Instance.
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Is this possible?
How can i do this?
King_Cool, I don't know if this is what you're looking to do, but I made an example if I'm understanding what you want to happen. Not sure if this will work for you though.
Thats not quite it.
Ill try and make a better example.
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WHAT I HAVE
- 1 Active Object "BALL" ( relevant AltValues A - C )
THE SETUP
- There is only 1 BALL instance present at the start of Frame ( we will call this particular Instance the "Original BALL" )
- Alterable Values A - D of the Original Ball is set to random
WHAT I WANT: WHEN PRESSING SPACE
- 4 new BALL Instances should be created at the 'Original Balls' location
- The 4 newly created BALL instances should also inherrit the Alterable Values A - C from the 'Original BALL'
EXAMPLE
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3537859/CopyingInstance.mfa
( My problem is i dont know how to inherrit the Alterable Values from the 'Original Instance' directly, without going through some sort of "middle man" along the way )
King_Cool - What's wrong with using some sort of '"middle man" along the way? I can't think of any other way to do it, because you need to specify values from your original ball and the newly created balls which is difficult because they're instances of the same object. Just store the coordinates and AltVals in Global Alt Vals (or Alt Vals of another Object) and then refer to those values after creating the new balls.
isn't this possible?
+press space
-set value "ballcreator" @ original ball to 4
+is value "ballcreator" > 0
-Create Ball @ original ball
- set all values from ball to original ball
Doesnt look like that will work ( keep in mind i havent actually tried it ).Quote:
Originally Posted by Morbus Crohn
AyreGuitar, you may be right.
Isnt it possible to use 'MMF2s natural instance selection' or maybe combined with 'data leeching' to solve this?
Create 3 global values, call them tempa... tempc or something.
When the first ball enters, store its values in those globals. Next create your first spawned ball, setting its values to the global ones. Then create the second one and so on. That should be all that you need to do and you can do it via a loop that way too, although if you doso, you'll need potentially store the x & y of the initial ball in globals too, as loops don't inherit the object selection from their calling event.
Also, note well... if you call a loop in an event, when you return to the event at the action after the loop call, any objects selected by the event's conditions will be essentially unselected, so anything like "set ball alt a to 1" will then act on ALL balls in the frame.