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I have loops that define horizontal and vertical movement for a projectile object using alterable values. Problem is, when a new projectile is created, the projectile already on screen takes the values of the newest created projectile. I tried using spread value to give the objects unique IDs, but it doesn't seem to be fixing the issue. Advice?
Are you able to provide your events? When creating an object if you set the alterable values in the same event it should only effect the newly created object. but if you're creating an object and then calling a group of events/loop/or timed event to set the value it will apply to all.
Events are:
'Enemy' "Throw" Animation Frame = 4
- Create 'Rock' at (0,0) from 'Enemy'
- Set 'Rock' Value A to ((X'Player' - X'Enemy') / 15)
Always
- Run Loop "Rock Horizontal" Abs('Rock' Value A) times
On Loop "Rock Horizontal"
+X'Rock' > 0
- Set X'Rock' to X'Rock' + 1
On Loop "Rock Horizontal"
+X'Rock' < 0
- Set X'Rock' to X'Rock' - 1
Anyone? Seems like I'm missing something fairly simple.
I think I can help you there. If you look at my "two problem" thread, there is a way of individualizing every object copy created by using an ID loop; although, you may have to spread the ID value everytime the object is created, and I don't think using the two loops for a single command will work very well. Hope this somewhat helps...
NOTE: So far, I'm looking for a solution of integating animations with the ID loop, so I recommend not having any commands be triggered by a certain animation combined with the ID loop.
My problem seems to be that the fastloops run by the system are only looking at the value of the latest created Projectile object. Thus, when a new Projectile is created, the ones already on screen will now change speed since the fastloop is instructed to run the loop based on that value. I need a way to have the loop differentiate between the values of the objects. Using spread value to individually ID the objects doesn't seem to matter, since the system fastloop can only read one value at a time.
I also tried the ForEach function, and this looked promising except for the fact that it doesn't seem to work like regular fastloops - i.e. the traditional "pixel perfect collision" examples used in a lot of fastloop tutorials won't apply, which is a problem. Am I mistaken about this feature? If so, it could hold the solution.
So, if enemy animation frame is equal 4 then you create "Rock" object at enemy and move ALL existing rocks to the right/left(depending on the X position of Rock) (XPlayer-XEnemy)/15 times?Quote:
Originally Posted by FinalSpecimen
By using the ID loop, you also have to include "if ID value of Object = loopindex of Fastloop "ID"" for every instruction (or input) that includes an "on loop "objectmove"". That input must be applied right below the movement loop input, and it is probably unnecessary to use "on loop "ID"" as an inclusion since two "on loops" don't seem to work very well for the same input. This should make your projectiles run its own loop independantly.
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Still not working. Here's a screenshot of my events.
you're referencing loopindex of a loop inside another loop
i.e. line 542/543
on loop "ROCKHOR"
...
ID of (rock) = loopindex ("ROCKID")
this will only pick rock with ID = last loopindex of ROCKID (easily last rock ID since ROCKID loop is fired before)
you should change a little the approach
i.e.
HOR (rock) <> 0
>>> fire a "foreach" loop for each rock
(no need to spread IDs)
on this foreach loop
>>> set X position of rock to X(rock) + hor(rock)
of course would need a little tweak if (likely, from your events) you'd prefer to move rocks 1 pixel at time
(i.e.
on above foreach loop
>>> set choose_ID to fixed value of (rock)
>>> fire loop "move_rock" abs(hor(rock)) times
on loop "move_rock"
+ fixed value (rock) = choose_ID
>>> set X position of rock to X(rock) + hor(rock)/abs(hor(rock))
)