Using Layers for maps

[Hydra]

Greetings everyone.

I was wondering if anyone had any insight on a question I have...

I wanted to have my entire game inside one frame, but separate each level based on layers. I could easily loop through and hide all of them and then just re-enable the correct one for the map the player is on.

But I'm thinking... just because I hide it doesn't mean the active objects on the layer won't take up resources. Is there another workaround? Like could I somehow automatically delete every object of a layer I'm not using so that it wouldn't take up memory?

(the reason for this is primarily because I don't like copying my events across all level frames as I'm sure no one does lol)


Best,
Ian

[willy]

I haven't' tried that, but it seems messy if it's primarily for avoiding to work with multiple frames.
I would create an editor, loading external resources into one frame.

This one uses Fusions own editor and saves the object placements to an external file, which you can load into a single frame.
http://community.clickteam.com/threads/84185-Array-Level-Builder-for-Fusion-2-5-(variation-on-Shawn-s-example-of-the-same-name)

This lets you use the editor Tiled, very easy to work with. Exporters for platforms may be limited, look into it.
http://community.clickteam.com/threads/78427-Tiled-Map-Loader

Looki's "Tile Map" object. Again, may be some limitations on exporters.
http://community.clickteam.com/threads/70577-Beta-Tile-Map

[Hydra]

Thank you for your helpful response. I think I like the first one the best. But how can I prevent users from simply editing the files? Would I have to store the files inside the application (I think I read something about this called internal binary files. Is that correct?)

Thanks

[willy]

Yes, you can add them under "View -> Data elements" go to the "Binary data" tab and click add.

I haven't done this before and am not entirely sure how you reference binary data from the event editor.

There are also some encryption/decryption extensions you can use and apply to the external files. Try the blowfish encryption object.