RICOCHET INFINITY

HI, I am fairly new to this, and submitted my first game (ABC) recently. Now I am trying to do more.

I have been trying different ways to start an item off screen, then move after all on screen bricks are hit. Every time I try & script a sequence the game ends when final block on first screnn is hit. I tried to work on Background Layer, thinking that was the answer, but can't tell if I am in background, since I can still see all my bricks, and when I do anything, it appears on my main screen.

I have tried to do from instructions (help), have tried 'wait for brick to be destroyed', and I can do as in instruction, but when I change slightly, like, Move between two points, it doesn't funtion correctly.

I tried to find one in someones elses game, and check sequence, but I can't select anything off the first screen, so I can't get function.

wahat I want is to have a second layer from my first screen.

can anyone help? Thank you.
dina

It sounds like you are doing it correctly. What I would do is probably the same as you have done.

Sequence
>Move to point (x 0 & y -1000) in 0 seconds
>Wait for brick to be destroyed (put in name of brick)
>Move to point (x 0 & y 0) in 3 seconds

The only other thing I can think of is...did you tell the sequence to "stop" at the end? If you didn't, it tried to keep repeating the sequence which can make a level look really weird when playing.

Thanks for trying. I did what you said, but it still does not function correctly.

I just caught something you mentioned in your first post. You said the level ends before the second group of bricks comes back on screen. The bricks that are being sent off screen...do they have a "destroy self if offscreen" plugin?

Big Mamma, first, thans for trying to help, I appreciate your patience.

no, they are not set to destruct off screen, what I mean is, I have seen other's games where you see a pattern, and when you break the last brick, another set of bricks comes on screen. I can't get this to happen. If I delay by # of minutes, then what if you finish before the # of minutes specified. I tried to use the Expression/Wait for desired # of bricks, but can not figure how to get it to work.
I can get the movement to wait to come on screen, but I have to choose they brick to wait for, which means I have to know which will be the last brick 'standing', which I can not know.

keep tying to help me, I will keep trying to get it.

Don't you have to name all the bricks on the screen the same, so when they are all destroyed then the bricks off screen show up?

thought I had it, but still not... I've seen it on many others screens, but of course, now that I want to find a example I can't find one quick. The ones I have seen, I got to Edit mode, but can't seem to find the scripting. I try to look for bricks, off to the right, (under the round status), where they are 'hidden' but can not find bricks, so the author must be doing something different from me.

Again, what I want to do is:
in one level, have some bricks waiting, and only have them come out after all bricks showing are gone.

I can get my off screen to wait for a certain amount of time, BUT, since I don't know how long it will take someone to clear the field, this will not work as I want. I can also get waiting bricks to wait for a particular brick to be gone, BUT again, since I don't know what will be last brick standing, it doesn't do what I want.

Heeeellllppppp !!!!


Thanks.
dina

If we look at this as a phase I, phase II type of level, did you name all the bricks in phase I the same name? Also, are all the bricks with the same name able to be destroyed? If you have a marker or deflector or some other type of brick on the playfield that cannot be destroyed, it would mess up the play.

Start with a much simpler case to figure out the technique before applying it to your grand level design.

Make a new levels
Make two bricks named "Phase1"
Make a third back that has the script:
Sequence
**Step1: MoveToPoint(2000,2000) (off screen)
**Step2: WaitForBrickToBeDestroyed(Phase1)
**Step3:MoveToPoint(0,0) (back where it started
**Repeat: do NOT repeat sequence

Be sure to NOT put these three steps in the "simulates" plug-in slots. You need to add a Sequence plug-in and put them inside of there.

When you play this level the 3rd brick should go off screen immediately and then come back when both of the "phase1" bricks are destroyed.

Once you get this working try building up from there.

THANKS ! got it now.
dina

That's wonderful!!! But tell us...what was the hang-up that prevented it from working before?

I tried 'moving between two bricks', and I couldn't get it to work, but when James said to Move to a point, it worked fine, so I used 2 of Move to a point. I think I was trying to put a 'wait' function in-between 'move between two points', so it wasn't working correctly.

Dina