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@deeeds, I find coding fun when I'm making something that I want to make, without time constraints or monetary investment.

Writing
Painting
Drawing

I prefer coding over these, and I see them as similar things; having an idea in mind and bringing it to life.

I play games a lot, and so I want to make games that others would enjoy. I might not succeed or even finish a game, but I still enjoy doing it as a hobby at the moment.

If/when I'm doing it as a job I might not like it as much; I don't know since I haven't done it.

Downloading a project that preloads a scene containing BMFonts, without ever going into the editor, causes all of the text to become black rectangles like this:

It seems to completely break the font used in the project, even when restarting hyperPad.

The bug doesn't happen if you open the scene of the labels before ever playing it. Here's a sample project, make sure to press play without opening the project: http://bit.ly/2K7bbm2

@iTap-Development They update when you run them. For example, if you have a text input and then a set input field that sets something to the text input, once you run the input field, it will set it to the last thing entered in text input.

Checking the sqlite file inside a project Aidan sent me, it seems like when a scene is deleted the objects aren't.

He has 231 objects in the sqlite file, which is way too many; and I see object names that don't show up in his scene.

@Hamed @Murtaza DELETING A SCENE DOESN'T DELETE THE OBJECTS

@administrators I think it would be really useful if there was a behaviour that allowed for dynamic or predefined tag joining/leaving, in the same way that an attribute can be set.

An example of where this could be useful is that in a dungeon project I'm collaborating on, we have loads of rooms, each filled with objects. Each of these objects is assigned an ID depending on what room they are placed in, so when a player enters that room, all objects are disabled except the room the player is in. Right now, We have to use a for each loop that gets the ID of every single object to decide whether to enable or disable it. This causes the game to freeze for about half a second when travelling between rooms. The main problem is that there is no way to select a spawned object, and this would change that so we could just directly select the tag with the ID of the room.

@mc-games you can put arrays in arrays. For example in your 5*5 grid, you can have 5 arrays inside an array. It's a bit hard to explain, but here is a 2d array of your grid:
[
"["0,0","0,1","0,2","0,3","0,4"]",
"["1,0","1,1","1,2","1,3","1,4"]",
"["2,0","2,1","2,2","2,3","2,4"]",
"["3,0","3,1","3,2","3,3","3,4"]",
"["4,0","4,1","4,2","4,3","4,4"]"
]

The index of the main array is the X value, then the index of the inside arrays are the y value. For example, if you want the object at 2,4, you would get the array at index 2, which will output the array ["2,0","2,1","2,2","2,3","2,4"]. Then you can get index 4 of that output, which will give the value 2,4. Note that the hyperPad forums are hiding the backslashes in the array, they are automatically created when you use modify array with characters that it might interpret as closing the main array/values:
I've also formatted the array, it would actually like like this:
["["0,0","0,1","0,2","0,3","0,4"]","["1,0","1,1","1,2","1,3","1,4"]","["2,0","2,1","2,2","2,3","2,4"]","["3,0","3,1","3,2","3,3","3,4"]","["4,0","4,1","4,2","4,3","4,4"]"]

@iTap-Development They update constantly or when they are used

@Kamdroid this would also be great for games that are procedurally generated or store the levels as arrays, etc. so we don't need to use a ton of 'if behaviours' to convert the id of a tile to a graphic.

I'd also like to be able to download graphics with http requests and use them with set graphics, so we can use user created content and mods.

@Deeeds

(I'm going to use this to learn the code formatting on the forums)

Like Aidan said, (P AND Q) can be represented by nesting ifs. It can be done as

//# I'm not sure I fully get the syntax for comments
output = 0 //# default to 0 if they aren't both true
if P == 1:
    if Q == 1
        output = 1 //# set to 1 if they are both true
return output

P OR Q:

output = 1 //# defaults to 1
if P == 0
    if Q == 0
        output = 0 //# if NOT(P) AND NOT(Q) is true, return 0
return output

(P XOR Q) is the equivalent to ((P OR Q) AND NOT(P AND Q)), but there's an easy shortcut in that it's true when P ≠ Q:

output = 0
if P != Q:
    output = 1
return output

Edit: oh yeah, NOT P:

output = 1
if P = 1
    output = 0
return output

Edit 2: As hyperPad behaviours:

I haven't been using hyperPad much for a while now, but here are some things I feel would be very nice to have:

• A time output from music/sounds, so we can make rhythm games without them desyncing after a while or when pausing/lagging.
• Parenting, where child objects scale/move with their parents.
• File importing/exporting/downloading and using them with set graphic.
• Importing/exporting objects/behaviours from other projects. This would allow for sharing groups of behaviours and reusing them in other projects, as well as making it easier for people to collaborate on projects.

Not sure how feasible these are, just thought I'd post them here.

@Kamdroid the behaviour on shouldn't run before the loop finishes.

I don't know what your project is, but I see you're using spawn on area. When an object is spawned, its behaviours don't run until the next tick; so if appLoader_Load is doing causing those spawned objects to run behaviours then you do need a delay, although it only needs to be 0.017s I think.

@XxWhiteHearrxX I’m not an expert but a switch statement traditionally is just meant to be a way to compare a variable to multiple values and have a specific case for each value. This should be functionally identical to a list of if/else if/else, though I guess it’s meant to be simpler/cleaner.

Could maybe be interesting if it was a behaviour that lets you simplify a ton of if/else ifs into a single behaviour that just runs the nth behaviour underneath, kinda like how execute sequence runs a specific behaviour each time.

It could have a UI like an array, where the indexes correspond to the behaviour number connected underneath and the value is the value to check for. I don’t know if there are enough uses for it to be worth adding though.

@CodingPhoenixTM @Thecheater887 it's technically possible but I agree that the performance would be horrible. @Aidan-Oxley has made a wireframe 3D and it is POSSIBLE to combine skew, scale, and rotate to make a face with a 3 point triangle (so a square face would be made of 2 faces, etc.) but nobody has done it yet. Aidan and I attempted it once but we didn't finish it, but we got to the point where the triangle connected to 2 of the 3 points but then skewing to the third messed it up because it skews around the centre. We probably could have finished it though... 3D collision detection would be possible but only really using spheres and cubes I think (other collisions might be possible using trigonometry, haven't really thought about it though). Converting the isometric 3D to perspective would be possible by dividing a constant by the distance from the camera I think, and by transforming triangles to 3 points, faces to these perspective shapes would probably be possible but I think Aidan hasn't really worked on it that much because it would be unusable for most things...

@iTap-Development it crashes for me, on the left side of the screen in landscape with the home button on the right side. It's not consistent though.

Since it's still marked as unsolved, here's a visual version of what GameCRAZY said (but I replaced behaviour on/off "wait" with just connecting the wait):

The only potential problem with this (depending on the game you are making) is that any taps after this within the time period will reset the wait, meaning that triple tapping will activate the double tap twice, and quadruple tapping will activate it 3 times instead of twice. To fix this, you can turn off the first tap after tapping it and turn it back on when the time expires or when the double tap is activated. This results in 2 double taps after tapping 4 times:

If you want to add behaviours for just a single tap, you could use behaviour on and off for a single tap event bundle, causing it to only activate when you tap once but not twice:

Note that the time period to double tap can be changed by changing the 0.25 seconds of the wait to something else.

This would be great, also for calculating non-square roots and doing decimal exponent since these are impossible (or really hard) right now. A logarithm behaviour would be nice too.

@Idow373 I guess that makes sense... I would've got one version up to something more complete before working on another but this could work too.

Made this mistake a few times now and seen others do it, if I press post in a comment on the hub, it greys out the button, but it can still be pressed again and multiple posts get sent. I don't think it used to do this. The post button should be disabled until the server sends a response, and if the post is successful the text field should be cleared.

Deflemask Tracker (Mac, PC) - FREE: A music making tool that emulates a large variety of classic soundchips and consoles/computers. It is a bit complex to use so new users will most likely need to follow a lot of tutorials to really understand how to use it. http://deflemask.com

I found out about it through SpectralAvesG5S in the comments on backtrack, but I haven't been able to make anything good with it yet since I haven't watched any tutorials.

Also, should we use AppStore previews like this:
Pixel Art Maker by Nekomimimi
https://appsto.re/au/fc3G1.i

@Murtaza @Thecheater887 the AppStore doesn't mind if you don't support older devices, as long as you don't put them in the supported devices section, right? I know a few games that aren't compatible with my iPad 4 and they just won't download from the AppStore. I'm pretty sure you can get screen orientation from the tilt analog behaviour, but I haven't used it in a while so I'm not 100% sure. Also, I didn't know about the get screen behaviour, I just assumed it got the screen position and never used it 😑.