New Stencyl Topic: Rectangle drawing code for Stencyl 4.0.4

 After some decompilation of some Stencyl test swf files hoping to replace the problematic drawing codes built-in in Stencyl that crashed the Microsoft edge browser, Stencyl-nator decides to produce the code that draws rectacgles. Stencyl-nator has yet to try it on Mozilla firefox, opera, Google Chrome, Maxthon and brave browser.

This is the code. To use the code in design mode, custom import and public var (custom code) are required. More info http://stencyl-nator.blogspot.com/p/rectangle-drawing-arbitrary-code-for.html

Requires custom import and custom code. In this case

custom import : import scripts.H;

custom code: public var dt:H = new H(); 

  

The similar topic: 

http://stencyl-nator.blogspot.com/p/text-drawing-arbitrary-code-for-stencyl.html
 

Stencyl topic update: code: setting opacity

if you have noticed some of the pages have been removed from game mechanics section, it is stuffs to do with old Stencyl 2.x that is not a game mechanics. Game mechanics often require multiple behaviors and are very complex subject to just look at.   

updated page: http://stencyl-nator.blogspot.com/p/code-setting-opacity.html

changes: or you can refer code (preview code). 

For Stencyl 4.0 and later, 

g. alpha = 1 // default value

g. alpha =  0.5 //50% opacity. 

g. alpha =  0.2 //20% opacity

New Stencyl topic: inventory

It is the day that Najib Razak gets charged in court after being sentenced in prison over SRC scandal. Also the day IOI City mall phase 2 opens to be the largest mall in Malaysia where Stencyl-nator is in.  

While Najib Razak is in court. Stencyl-nator compiled the behavior systems for the . 

However this behavior we wrote is mostly code due to obsession with efficiency and the use of Int and also the use of list[x][y][z] as this time Stencyl-nator is creating game named infinite valley. 

The page is too long to be written here. It took Stencyl-nator 2 days to compile 4 behaviours into images. http://stencyl-nator.blogspot.com/p/inventory.html

but stencyl-nator can give you some hint here. One disadvantage of doing code in design mode is the code snippet cannot be extended.  

Next topic: Drawing code. and before that, There will be few changes to this blog. 

Stencyl: Inventory system is almost ready.

 Apology: Stencyl-nator apologises for not being here for so long due to academic loads and massive overhaul of unlimited scene renderer for Stencyl engine cannot save data[negative int]. The other problem with Stencyl is using too much Drawing resulting in game crashing. 

 Therefore Stencyl-nator produces its own drawing Script and custom imports for better performance.  

The behavior used for drawing

Everything here Stencyl-nator learned is from Reverse engineering the SWF files he has "published" on to his computer using JPEXS FFDEC. More (including bypassing some functionalities) about that later.

The topic mentioned in the title will be out and announced within this week. and the drawing topic later for this is only the beginning of drawing tool reverse-engineering with JPEXS FFDEC.      

saves cannot save data with negative ids

Under development : Infinite valley: 

Stencyl-nator aplogises for not working with this blog for few month due to academic load. I came across the issue the save have bugs.  So i made a save demo for data[negative values] in game Attribute 
named "savd test.swf". Also all the files here can now be accessed. JPEXS FFDEC is recommended for reverse-engineering or to see how Stencyl-nator assembles the codes, 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fND_aekIe-XETVmbEG7P5f1v0D_Zo_Bp?usp=sharing
The data [negative values] can be used anywhere but cannot be saved.

WARNING: ALL SWF FILES ARE deemed potentially harmful to your computer by Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.  

the codes in the file so that you can duplicate. 

Next topic: inventory, 

 

New Stencyl Topic: Scene with "no edges"

 Stencyl-nator apologises for the narrow strips of the main page is capped at 1500 px. 

Topic: Scenes with no edges

for debug only, 

https://stencyl-nator.blogspot.com/p/scenes-with-infinite-dimensions.html

lists can get negative index values

 Lists which is known as Array can accept negative index values. For example, a list is created, for a test whether a list within a list is used as well as it accepts a negative index number 
internal name: _testdata
snippet name: test data

the index numbers has to be Int which stands for integer. 

and here is the result. 

 

Application: map data for unlimited or limited dimensions

reducing lag with actor groups

 One of the reasons why Stencyl-nator has almost abandoned Stencyl is due to lag with many actors on scene without behaviors . However Stencyl-nator has recently sort out the lag by minimising the collision relationship between actor groups. 

The real reason for lags is due to default settings where 
default actor group is "Actors" and they are set to be tracking each other with collision relationship

To compensate the need for the collision relationship, users can create new actor group otherwise, an actor group that has no collision relationship with anything else such as buttons.  

for more details,  https://stencyl--nator.blogspot.com/p/reducing-lag-actor-groups.html

New Stencyl topic: click waypoint

 The core (Always) is very similar to the last step of pathfinding which is dispatch movement.

 

The page and extra details, source, and the download link is in the new blog 

Stencyl--nator: clicked-based waypoints

Stencyl-nator will migrate to Stencyl--nator

 Stencyl-nator will migrate to Stencyl--nator.blogspot.com and start new. This blog will be abandoned except for link changes. Stencyl--nator will be more structured and more page-to-page links. None of the stencyl tutorials here will be moved to Stencyl--nator. but will create from scratch. 
  

While pathfinding still in development, Stencyl--nator will be built topics by topics. Since this old blog is filled with some cringe stuffs.  

new blog has a very similar URL to the old one. 

stencyl--nator.blogspot.com. The blog is still currently empty.