Construct Limits

Dear Arima,
Dear Silver,

Thanks for trying to help...
Please give me your e-mails. I suppose you are honest people - I did much as for the game - and I trust you.

My characters are warships - they are about 60 now in the game - I have planned 400. And every ship has guns (every gun is a sprite) and some ships have up to 60 guns. Also I am to show the ship figures - ammunition, crew, speed, qn-ty of guns, etc. That gives something about 20 text fields per ship. That's why 1500 bjects. In fact I need much much more - 10000 objects...((((((((

Edited by Dima111 - 04 May 2012 at 1:15pm

Konjak,
That's great - you grant the hope) You are quite right - I am absolutely far of using the same sprite through events.

Where could I find the info how to use "instances"? Or could you please post the respective cap? Please - teach!

I will rush to optimize the game!

In the event sheet editor you can use the System object action Create Object to spawn a second instance of whatever you would like.

You can even configure it with unique values if you add the settings right after the action that makes it (eg:

-Create "Sprite" on layer "Objects" at 0, 0
-Sprite: Set color filter to Red
-Sprite: Set private variable "Life" to 100

But, if you want to create multiple sprites at once, you need to do it like this:

-Create "Sprite" on layer "Objects" at 0, 0
-Sprite: Set color filter to Red
-Sprite: Set private variable "Life" to 100
-Create "Sprite" on layer "Objects" at 0, 0
-Sprite: Set color filter to Red
-Sprite: Set private variable "Life" to 100

as any settings after the "Create" action will apply only to the newest sprite you made.

Now my "gun work" algorythm is (the ship name is AAAA)

When AAAAGunSprite1 overlaps Enemy
>> When Enemy: Do not Pick closest to AAAA X,Y ---> Enemy private variable "AAAA" set to 0 (means that the Enemy ship is not under the AAAA fire)
>>>> Nothing happens

>> When Enemy: Pick closest to AAAA X,Y => Enemy private variable "AAAA" set to 1 (means that the Enemy ship is under the AAAA fire)
>>>> Every 10 (let suppose AAAAGunSprite1 gun rate) => AAAA "Ammunition" private variable subtract 1 (AAAAGunSprite1 shoots)
>>>>>> Random (1 to 100) (let suppose - AAAAGunSprite1 shooting accuracy)    /and/    if the Enemy private variable "AAAA" = 1 (the Enemy is under AAAA fire)    /and/   if AAAAGunSprite1 overlaps Enemy (the Enemy is in the AAAAGunSprite1 range)   /and/   if Enemy is detected(discovered) (overlaps another Sprite - DetectionSprite)    /and/     the Enemy is closest to AAAA     =>   the Enemy recieves 1 hit.


What will it be in that case for created instances?

Edited by Dima111 - 04 May 2012 at 8:32pm

Jayjay,
A bit simplier question)))

I have 25 destroyers that are alike each other and every destroyer has 1 (suppose) gun. So all 25 guns can be instances of a single GunSprite. Am I right?

To differ the 25 instances from each other need I to create for my GunSprite the PV "Ship name" and after "Create" to write in the Instance PV - AAAA, BBBB, CCCC etc?

Edited by Dima111 - 04 May 2012 at 8:48pm