Strange Things Happening

[Tuna]

I'm doing my own Geometry Wars type of game:

I have a fast loop that creates x number of shapes (actives). Once all of the shapes have been destroyed, I re-call that fast loop again to add more actives.

I'm using the Clickteam Movement Controller to have these actives move toward the player.

After a certain number of "levels" are reached, suddenly the shapes no longer move towards the player, they simply move to the right.

There is nothing in my very simple 20 events that changes. EVERYTHING is the same throughout, but after 19 levels, none of the shapes will move any direction but to the right.

I suspect this has something to do with the Fixed Value of the shapes (or more precisely, the fixed value of Group.Enemies)

I'm having the shapes gravitate toward the player using:

Set Alterable Value B to AngleObjects("Clickteam Movement Controller",Fixed("Group.Enemies"),Fixed("PlayerSh ip"))
Set Direction to AngleToDir("Clickteam Movement Controller", Alterable Value B("Group.Enemies"))

Like i said before, this works PERFECTLY until suddenly at level 19 they stop following and just move right.

Any ideas?

[Dynasoft]

It could be an error in the "Clickteam Movement Controller" extension. I had a similar bug with fixed values in my ValueAdd extension. After enough objects had been created (or just enough time?), it was suddenly impossible to read their extended values and the extension basically stopped working.

The problem was that the fixed value was being used as a signed number inside the extension code, when it should be unsigned. After a while, it wrapped to negative, and the fixed value became invalid.

[Tuna]

Ok, so, any idea how to get around this?

[Dynasoft]

You should post a mfa that it's reproducible in, and then we'll find out for certain. If it is what I suggested, it has to be fixed in the extension, nothing you can do.

[Tuna]

ok, here's the mfa file (zipped).

I added a counter so you can see when you're on level 19, all of the squares will move right.

Thanks for looking!

EDIT: this is done in the HWA version 249

Tuna

[Tuna]

UPDATE: I found a way to work around this. Instead of getting the angle to the object then converting the angle to direction, I'm instead using the vector movement and setting the direction toward the object.

Much easier, and no fail. I've removed my mfa file.

If you still want the mfa file to look into the error, let me know and I'll send it to you.

[Dynasoft]

If it is an error with the Clickteam movement controller, you're probably best sending it to someone at Clickteam.