Zeta Flow

Indeed, people have come and gone quite a bit, but there seems to be more leaving then joining lately. I'd like to see the site grow and everything, but honestly I really don't know what I'm doing what it comes to managing a community. Lack of time makes it that much harder to learn and experiment. ...

Ya, the core should never have a parent part set, as is it gets into an infinite loop that looks like this: core -> part (core's child) -> core (part's child) -> part....repeat. I'll throw something in there to not allow that to happen.

Thanks
~MD

Sasadad wrote:

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makeTrigger,death,enableGun,2,6,7,8,10,11,12

to make it so when part #2 dies, parts 6,7,8,10,11, and 12 activate.

That's entirely correct, it should work!

Finally an update! only a small one though. I changed the layout of the AI code window, hopefully it's a bit easier to use. Most notably however are the 3 new AI commands, 2 of which are triggers...have a look for yourself and you'll see what I mean. Also, don't use the "makeSwitch" comman...

Yup! see this post

Basically, just type coreGun_double into the AI text box

~MD

The machine series is indeed awesome, Sasadad!

Trevor: you may want to consider setting your victory level to hidden so that players will get to it by defeating the previous level first; and in fact you may want to hide all of the levels except the first one, your choice. Nice levels too

~MD

I completely agree, I've deleted several levels already that fall into the garbage category since Zeta Flow went online. I'm more than happy to keep things tidy, let me know when you find such levels as I don't usually get a chance to play all of them.

~MD

can you set things up for users to get a notice about forum updates without them having to log into the forum. I know we get an update to responses, but I'm talking about stuff that falls outside of that. Certainly! there's already a system in place for that, although it's probably not obvious to m...

Regarding invincible parts, since the colours can be changed I'm not enforcing the colour to light blue except on parts that are their original colour. I could change the colour of invincible guns (if they have their original colour) too if you'd like. The reason I don't change every invincible part...

You may now customize the colours of your creation!

Feedback welcome.

~MD

Indeed I've been busy too. It's nice to see everyone is still around though. By the way, I'm slowly working on custom colors for parts. There's just a few things I have to do before I will upload it. Hopefully that will encourage some more creativity. Keep the [ zeta ] levels flow ing. :wink: ~MD

That is strange, I can only guess at why that happened. Perhaps there were connection issues of some sort. Also, it says here that your account was created two weeks ago on Feb 14, which means your account did exist the entire time. Make sure you're using rotatePartToShip for pieces, as rotateToShip...

Nope again, it has to recalculate angles and position seperately for each part regardless. Because the parts aren't actually connected, more like floating at a specific point and angle around its parent (which is different for every part, or assumed to be different). Although code to rotate a piece ...

Nope, it'd be about the same. The most important factor in terms of speed is simply the number of parts, the more there are the more laggy it is.

~MD

I was under the impression that the objects were vector graphics and the scale had no impact on performance. Am I wrong? That's correct, scale them as much as you please. In fact, less big ones would run faster than many small ones. And it is interesting to see it being used as a webtoy; that's one...