Labyrinth Progress Topic

[Silverwind]

Doesn't matter its so much better the extra lines is worth it.

... ok. Seriously though, the code shouldn't take up anymore lines. Did you have to rearrange the order the sprites were loaded in to assure a positive was loaded last or something? If so you could get around that with a mere 1 more line of code by loading a transparent sprite last.

Also to abide to your request. of   "I'd love to see it running smoothly. "
 Here you go http://www.mediafire.com/?ymti2wadjyx This should run better.

That was cool.

[Tireas Dragon]

I was using a variable to show sprites so I had to rewrite a lot of code but it was surprisingly easy to do this.

[Tireas Dragon]

Well anyway as I said before I am going to make 5 levels and see if any new features are needed then I make the last 5 levels with features included making a good 10 level game. So what features are needed or is it fine the way it is.

P.S. The current level 5 will be removed. It was only inserted to ensure a good last level battle.

[EqwanoX]

this is good but the walls are glitchy, in sc you can put "true" at the end of each sprite command to "hold" the command untill it reads a sprite command that reads "false" and all sprite commands that are being held execute simultaniously, is there something like that in gm?

[Tireas Dragon]

No I don't think gm has while loops. Like
 While x = y
  DO THIS UNTIL X <> Y
 NEXT

[Tireas Dragon]

Wow I just found a major glitch in labyrinth that causes the monster to not do anything. I think I have solved the problem tho. It will take further testing to see if it worked.

[Silverwind]

No I don't think gm has while loops. Like
 While x = y
 Â DO THIS UNTIL X <> Y
 NEXT

That would be useful indeed.

[Tireas Dragon]

Ok the Battle Engine is fixed. Heres the link
 Â http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?by1eos5rn32
Now not only will the first monster attack but all the monsters their after.

P.S. Don't press the tester button. All links have been updated.

[Silverwind]

I was using a variable to show sprites so I had to rewrite a lot of code but it was surprisingly easy to do this.

I'm not sure if this helps, but the ABS command returns the positive value of a negative and visa-versa.

[Tireas Dragon]

I don't think that helps but I never use ABS for that purpose, in fact i never even used it. When ever I wanted to make a negative positive or vice versa I just (*-1) the variable.

[Silverwind]

Yeah, that would produce the same result.

[Tireas Dragon]

To repeat what I said

Well anyway as I said before I am going to make 5 levels and see if any new features are needed then I make the last 5 levels with features included making a good 10 level game. So what features are needed or is it fine the way it is?

[Al Staffieri]

this is good but the walls are glitchy, in sc you can put "true" at the end of each sprite command to "hold" the command untill it reads a sprite command that reads "false" and all sprite commands that are being held execute simultaniously, is there something like that in gm?

In GameMaker you do that by using a negative number for the sprites as Silverwind said. The negative sprite number will tell GameMaker not to show the sprite until a sprite with a positive number is used. Then it will show all of the sprites at once. This is the same thing SilverCreator  does with the true and false at the end of the command.

[Al Staffieri]

No I don't think gm has while loops. Like
 While x = y
  DO THIS UNTIL X <> Y
 NEXT

You can use a REPEAT loop to do the same thing as a WHILE loop would do.

REPEAT
  ' blah blah
  IF X <> Y THEN EXIT REPEAT
END REPEAT

You can also use the Loop Script option if it's in a card script to keep looping through the script.

[EqwanoX]

In GameMaker you do that by using a negative number for the sprites as Silverwind said. The negative sprite number will tell GameMaker not to show the sprite until a sprite with a positive number is used. Then it will show all of the sprites at once. This is the same thing SilverCreator  does with the true and false at the end of the command.

this is what i was talking about dragon. instead of executeing each sprite command individually it would execute all simultaniously