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1 decade ago in Saving data with iosImpact:

You could store as a cookie. called like this ## username = this.getCookie(&qu…

1 decade ago in Efficiency question:

I did some testing and found out anything preloaded (before init() does load a …

1 decade ago in Entering Doors:

Seems like a simple if statement would suffice. You have a player entity and a…

1 decade ago in Any cool ideas on how to implement a variable size chat bubble?:

I think it would be cool to draw a bubble around a player's chat. Wordwra…

1 decade ago in Scaled Alpha Hitmask Plugin (intended for hit detection on transparent buttons):

That's what I thought scale did but I wasn't sure. Scale is helpful …

1 decade ago in Drawing order problem:

I use Zindex to sort were are just talking about a flashed bad frame happens ev…

1 decade ago in Drawing order problem:

I have a hud comprised of two layers a bottom layer with zIndex:796 and a top l…

1 decade ago in Efficiency question:

Would it be faster to load entity animation sheets in the preloader as a varria…

1 decade ago in Game Structure Question:

I'd ## switch (this.currentLevel){ case 'level 1': var spaw…

1 decade ago in Are there additional key binds not listed in documentation?:

So I was giving my users a command line or chat input functionality by binding …

1 decade ago in Scaled Alpha Hitmask Plugin (intended for hit detection on transparent buttons):

I think this plugin is a bit heavy on resources would drawing the hitmask with …

1 decade ago in Can I specify an animation sheet's frame dimensions as a fraction of its width/height?:

So I'm using some art for character profile pictures that shows the charac…

1 decade ago in Could use some help with my pathfinding scripts:

@fulvio the varaible names are based on A* algorithm common terminology http…

1 decade ago in Looking for a good way to hide an entity:

For what its worth the best method I've come up with is pos.x=pos.x*-1 and…

1 decade ago in Looking for a good way to hide an entity:

I do that for some things but at times their position is relevant to my coding.…

1 decade ago in Looking for a good way to hide an entity:

I can't just give it an invisible animation frame because mouse-over actio…

1 decade ago in feasible way of simulating line of sight tile revelation:

Those examples look more like proximity based line of sights... I was thinking …

1 decade ago in zIndex with .drawTile?:

I was wondering if there is a way to specify zIndex of .drawTile or do I need t…

1 decade ago in Best practices: line of sight:

One way I thought of doing it was shooting 1 px collision traces and creating a…

1 decade ago in Collision tiles make it hard to see what I'm doing in WM:

I did that. Only thing I can think of is I might have edited the wrong file. …

1 decade ago in Best practices: line of sight:

I am still working on the algorithm for exactly what tiles you can see when a g…

1 decade ago in Collision tiles make it hard to see what I'm doing in WM:

How can I make the collision layer partially opaque in weltmeister? I'd l…

1 decade ago in feasible way of simulating line of sight tile revelation:

i want to black out tiles that are obstructed by walls or doors. I use a colli…

1 decade ago in How do I make a a special tile behavior when a player moves on it.:

@der_r yeah I finally was able to do it with getTile() there wasn't any ex…

1 decade ago in How do I make a a special tile behavior when a player moves on it.:

I've tried some things but its not working. My game is like a board ga…

1 decade ago in Some of my sounds aren't playing and some are...:

So I got all my sound files from the same source and as far as I can tell there…

1 decade ago in Can't push objects into an array:

@all No I figured it out. Push was pushing the object reference not the obj…

1 decade ago in Can't push objects into an array:

I was trying to make a narration script so the player can see "The orc hit…

1 decade ago in Javascript Scope Issue:

I feel more confused than when I started. If I could simplify my question it m…

1 decade ago in Javascript Scope Issue:

This isn't within impact Its on my server so I can't just declare it …