Projectiles using ForEach

[SimonPieman]

Hey guys,

Just half way through recoding all my bad guys as ForEach loops so speed up my FPS.

I have a few projectiles in the game as well that might be better off with ForEach loops too but would like to get some opinions from those who may be able to help my understanding.

For example currently my stick of dynamite code starts with:

Dynamite collides with background

-run loop 'CollideX'
-run loop 'ColideY'

Would it be better to put it in a ForEach loop e.g:

ForEach loop collide for object Dynamite
+Dynamite collides with background

-run loop 'CollideX'
-run loop 'ColideY'


I'm wondering which way would be faster and less of a burden on memory and FPS. Thanks in advance.

[SimonPieman]

Can anyone offer some thoughts on this? Have I explained the question well enough?

Just wondering what MMF2 does in the background if you just leave it with a collide condition and if that is simplified by ForEach and therefore better practice.

If anyone can offer some idea, I'd really appreciate it.

[SolarB]

With this you are better off going with your first method but using foreach for the loops, ie:

Dynamite collides with bg
- start foreach loop "collide" for object dynamite

This will narrow the object scope down to only whatever dynamite is colliding and iterate over only those instances.

This is one of many advantages of using ForEach. This does not work with normal loops as the object scope is reset in the "on loop" event.

[SimonPieman]

Thanks for the reply, I am not working on it today but will report back when I am on it again!