Recent posts by Kalinium on Kongregate

Topic: Game Programming / Resetting Variables?? in AS3

Originally posted by Senekis93:

About the random thing, int(Math.random()*11)+2 will give you a random between 2 and 12, which covers any possible combination of two six-sided dices.

Rolling two 6-sided dice is not the same as rolling one 12-sided dice.

Originally posted by Senekis93:

Yes, the more the Math.random calls, the less random the result will be. I’m unsure about the inner workings of the method itself, but as a rule, if you want the closest to a random number, just call it once.

An example of what Aesica means:
100,000 tests…

Result:  2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
2x6:   2759	5438	8304	11306	13949	16300	14000	11102	8546	5544	2752 
1x12:  9093	9261	8882	9148	9259	9003	9024	9113	8988	9137	9092

I don’t think you understand the reason for this at all. It has nothing to do with how the random function works.

Topic: Game Programming / Saving as a bitmap from a swf

With AS2 you’re back to what Moonkey first posted.

Topic: Game Programming / AS2, Beginner, struggling for Terms

You’ll find more help from the inbuilt help (F1) than you will from google if you already have coding experience.

Topic: Game Programming / I need a few commands explained in detail

5. Cache as bitmap?

Topic: Game Programming / Paving a path

Contain all the movieclips you want to outline as a group in a single movieclip and apply a glow filter to that.

Topic: Game Programming / Registration Point Problem?

I remember having this problem before, I just can’t remember how I fixed it. I’m pretty sure it was because I was applying some scaling to a movieclip, though.

Topic: Game Programming / Just Starting Side Scroller Help

http://www.kongregate.com/labs

Topic: Game Programming / Registration Point Problem?

Is the ship contained in another movieclip? Did the quick *2 fix I suggested before work?

Topic: Game Programming / wierd object removal problem

I’d edit your first post and put the code in pre tags.

Topic: Game Programming / wierd object removal problem

I don’t use AS3 so I can’t check your specific code, but you could try placing these into a container movieclip and then removing the container movieclip.

Topic: Game Programming / wierd object removal problem

Your URL got cut up and you should use pre tags to post code, but as a wild guess: You can’t remove objects that were placed on the stage in the editor (at least, not just with removeMovieClip()).

Topic: Game Programming / Registration Point Problem?

If you move the mouse further/closer to the origin, you’ll notice that the ship isn’t a fixed number of pixels from the mouse. Closer to the origin, closer to them mouse.

Now if you move the mouse as far from the origin as possible, bottom right, you’ll notice that the ship has gone to the middle of the screen. This means the ship is moving half as far as it should be in order to keep up with the mouse. So we can take a guess at what’s happening: at any point, the ship is half way between the mouse and the origin.

Try it out, and it looks like that’s the case. If you’re after a cheap fix, try multiplying mouseX/Y by 2 and seeing if that fixes your problem. I wouldn’t advise that as a permanent fix, though. First guess makes it seem like somewhere in your code is some sort coefficient of the coordinates isn’t what it should be.

Your only code that effects the ship’s coordinates (aside from constructor) is a relative movement (ie, x -= not x =), x -= distx / 10. This doesn’t look like it’ll be causing the problem. If this is your only AS relating to the problem, then we should try looking at something other than the AS. Perhaps the ship is contained in a parent MC that has a scalefactor applied?

Topic: Game Programming / Movement and collisions?

Of course, you could just realise it doesn’t make any difference either way.

Use what you like best.

Topic: Game Programming / Playing sounds from classes

While you set up your variable footstep and make it a Sound, you never actually make it into a Sound properly, it’s just an undefined Sound:

footstep = new Sound();

Topic: Game Programming / Boolien [AS2]

He’s not asking to change their avatar, he’s asking how he gets the specific avatar for the player.

Topic: Game Programming / Kongregate Flash 6K Competition.

If someone’s put the effort in to make the game, don’t fault them on a technicality.

Topic: Game Programming / Kongregate Flash 6K Competition.

With 6,144,000 bytes, you shouldn’t have to worry about 2-3 bytes.

Topic: Game Programming / Kongregate Flash 6K Competition.

Originally posted by UnknownGuardian:

Originally posted by truefire:

explain please? a few bytes is a lot when all you have to wokr with is 6kb. and sorry to sound like a noob, but what do you mean by “method”?, i dont know most of the lingo, except what i learn from the docs.

Edit: whoops, misread “a few bytes” as “a few kb” lol =P

Like function whatever . If that works, you could save bytes by trimming variable names too.

These things sound like such completely pointless methods of optimization. My game fits into the 6k limit, yet I barely had to worry about it.

Topic: Game Programming / Kongregate Flash 6K Competition.

Using fonts takes up a large amount of space (a single font might even take up all 6kb). Some fonts use less space than others.

Using the size reports is very helpful for finding out where you’re wasting kbs.

Topic: Game Programming / Question about variable assignment in classes.

Drop traces in all over the place. Keep tracing the variable whenever it’s changed/moved anywhere. Look at all the outputs and find the one where it breaks down, and it’ll probably become clear what’s wrong.

Topic: Game Programming / [AS2] Line code.

Detecting a collision between a line and a MC can be very complex, depending on the precision you want and the shape of the MC.

To remove the line, I would remove the container MC that you drew it in. However, you create what is probably a container MC but don’t actually use it: You shouldn’t have _root.lineStyle…, simply lineStyle… (ditto for the other lines in that with() { } block.).

Topic: Game Programming / Best Programmer on Kong

Skeptical about those commas, brian.

Also skeptical about the supposed list of best coders on Kongregate.

Topic: Game Programming / Best Programmer on Kong

bumped from a whole 2/3 days ago.

Topic: Game Programming / baking an animation? [AS2]

I don’t see why you couldn’t do this. A ragdoll is a little different – presumably you want the ragdoll to respond in a new way each time – but for the flame, which is probably very similar every time, you could create a series of bitmaps the first time the flame is used, then simply cycle through those instead of the actionscript until the settings are changed for the flame. As for turning the actionscript animation into a permanent bitmap animation before the final .swf is run, it’s probably harder than it’s worth.

Topic: Game Programming / My 'many questions to success' thread ;P

If he really means he’s using MX and not MX 2004, he will need to be using AS1.