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OLD. If you disagree with the co-creator of the Click line of software, you need to take that up with him. Also I have read several of your posts. Why don't you help instead of analyzing every post. You have not answered any of the questions ask.
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Off topic: OLD. Your posts are completely worthless on this forum and there is no beauty to anything you type. You are not helping.
On topic: Mcaw. Your best bet is to use a larger image.
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I also agree to use large objects when possible, but I think the question was: when is the object too big? I don't really know, we should ask François when it would be better to split a huge object (say 5,000x5,000 pixels) into a few smaller ones (4 2500x2500 objects).
Personally, I try to use background system boxes or the background images object when I can instead of active objects, but I don't think there's a huge performance difference between their memory usage.
Edit: This last, if you intend to move the 'background' at runtime. Otherwise it's probably best to use a quickbackdrop object with a tiled texture.
Yes Alonso, you are right. I have used large backgrounds and have had a few problems. With a quick backdrop no problems, but with one like that 5,000x5,000 background object a developer would probably have to slit that up.
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I am creating a level that uses nothing but backdrops for the maps...however there are aspects of the map I want that give the level depth. Here's what I'm doing:
I have at least 12 unique backdrop objects, 8 are walls, a floor, and obstacles.
I can place the walls on top of the obstacles. I want the player to be able to walk in front of, or behind the backdrop as they collide with it, as if in a 3D space (my game will bed isometric, and I do not understand how to use the isometric grid or arrays >///<.
It seems applications can have seemingly endless number of backdrops without lose of frame rate.
Is there a way to make it so that, when a character collides with a unique backdrop (not all of them) and change its order (layers)? Also, is there a way to change the transparency of a unique backdrop at runtime or simply toggle invisibility?
Thank you. I've just read about 10 posts from him in a row that contain nothing but rambling nonsense about "signatures" and how he has a certain way of doing things. It's getting fairly annoying and it might be time to make use of the old block feature :) I'm just afraid he might be scaring new users away with his posts that don't actually help them answer their questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by nivram
Not to mention all of his answers are totally wrong... plus he puts down the use of extensions or methods he doesn't understand how to use... He is basically just stifling creativity here.Quote:
Originally Posted by RhysD