inflЁxion - [snake/pacman with particles]

[CR4SH3D]

and how to make you collide with your tail i really need to work out a way to do that

I'm not sure that's possible.. unless you store a table with positions, but I guess that's not a nice way to go.

EDIT: About old particles (X), maybe you should just stop creating new particles, but still draw them, so the suicide particles fade away. (and you won't have them the next time you commit suicide)

so use stop() and continue drawing them?
also is it a good idea to use arrays to store enemy 'waves' and could i still move each about idividually using that method?

[bartbes]

so use stop() and continue drawing them?

Exactly

also is it a good idea to use arrays to store enemy 'waves' and could i still move each about idividually using that method?

Could you explain this some more? You mean multiple enemies, or something like that?

[CR4SH3D]

so use stop() and continue drawing them?

Exactly

also is it a good idea to use arrays to store enemy 'waves' and could i still move each about idividually using that method?

Could you explain this some more? You mean multiple enemies, or something like that?

i didnt think you could draw particles after the system had been stopped?

and yes i mean multiple enemies, for instance in an array have wave number, enemy type, points and maybe individual x,y values to move them about seperately

[bartbes]

i didnt think you could draw particles after the system had been stopped?

Why not? I'm pretty sure you can, but I guess pause is better. (I don't know if they go away, you might want to test that) But stop()/pause() doesn't destroy the entity, so why shouldn't you be able to draw it?

and yes i mean multiple enemies, for instance in an array have wave number, enemy type, points and maybe individual x,y values to move them about seperately

Sure, store those in an array (numerical indexed table, whatever you call them), just loop over them and set the new data. I'd suggest ipairs() with arrays and pairs() with any other type (or when you're not using table.remove(), which is useful, but hard to use). You might want to check out SECS, as classes might simplify this.

[CR4SH3D]

cool thanks for that

just a small update on what im working on at the moment:

• background color cycling - (can i do this without it having such a weird effect on the particle colors due to the draw mode)
  enemy waves
  fixing the boost to use a timer
  adding weapons for use against bosses
  score system based on how many milliseconds pass before a wave is defeated

[CR4SH3D]

added a few things now

• background color cycling
  another enemy type
  fixed boost to use timer
  added non collision enemy array

as you can see the 3 circles are part of a wave1 array but i cant work out how to cycle through and move each independently, i think they all move according to the bottom right one (at startup) but each should have a random target set within the game size any help would be awesome guys

and how come math.random doesnt seems to produce the same vaules if its generated on load?

anyways enjoy and let me know what you think

feel free to play around with the game size too, everything works fine if you try it appart from the splash screen logo

Download:

[bartbes]

as you can see the 3 circles are part of a wave1 array but i cant work out how to cycle through and move each independently, i think they all move according to the bottom right one (at startup) but each should have a random target set within the game size any help would be awesome guys

Check your other post

and how come math.random doesnt seems to produce the same vaules if its generated on load?

What? It shouldn't produce the same values, right?

[Robin]

and how come math.random doesnt seems to produce the same vaules if its generated on load?

What? It shouldn't produce the same values, right?

It should produce the same values with the same seed. If the seed is different each time, the values are different.

[bartbes]

I know that, but is the seed always the same? And even if it is, what is the problem with the random number generator generating random numbers?

[CR4SH3D]

thanks, ill look into the arrays in a little

i meant that the 'random' numbers generated on load DO seem to be the same every time (ie the position of those circles), i guess the seeed is (0,gamewidth) and (0,gameheight) right?

was a little too tired last night and didnt read it back