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. 

New Stencyl topic: Number formatter

 it has been a month since the previous post, Stencyl-nator now come out new logic which is Number formatter. 

The number formatter is to put commas in numbers which is larger than 1,000. 

The number formatter in this case, converts the number above 1 quadrillion to standard.

Event type: Global Custom block - cannot access attributes thus the logic is mostly code. 

For the better code display or if this post is buried, click here 

New Stencyl Topic : click move command.

Description
click anywhere to make actor go the clicked position. 

Story:
it is a step forward to successfully create the most difficult behaviour in the game which is pathfinding without the "path options" like the ones in GPS. The pathfinding where this most of this component may contain EXCEPT the first 2 rows. 

The waypoint-based pathfinding has 3 main components which are scanning, producing waypoints, and propagation which is most of this EXCEPT the first 2 rows and the next waypoint.   

Add next point command on the bottommost if gate on the second event and replace the mouse of the first event with next point X and Y and it will be a component of pathfinding that dispatches the actor's movement.   

if you have missed this blog Stencyl-nator: click move command (stencyl-nator.blogspot.com)

New Stencyl topic - less space used

Apology: sorry for not being here for so long. also you cannot update new flash games on wixsite anymore thus returning to this blog.

issues: the game is way larger than it should be. 

 

read more:  

New Stencyl topic: typing feature

 sorry for not been here for so long while I was hacking games for
nts-gamehack.wixsite.com/gemcraft-hacked
this new Stencyl topic has a flash display to actually experience this behavior
https://nts-gamehack.wixsite.com/stencyl-nator/typing

character input

moving text indicator left or right

text info and text indicator position

erase section

clear text

Stencylnator will be moving to wix

this blog will be abondoned as Stencyl-nator  will move to wix. here we cannot publish flash here
- next Stencyl topic onwards will be on wix.com together with nts-gamehack.wixsite.com/stencyl-nator and comes with flash demo
- this blog will rather have more unoriginal sprites than Stencyl tutorial

Stencyl-nator topic update:

both above applies to the building object sensor(same behavior), when it hits a structure it prevents a new building from being build onto existing structures. when it leaves, it allows the new building to be build

and this is where "crapplay status - can build" goes to and "game attribute blank crapplay status"(below) should be the same as "game attribute blank - gameplay util"(above)

for

applies to building menu button

if this does not work properly please check actor group collision. One of the reason why does not work is.. they are set not to collide with any other actor. for more
https://stencyl-nator.blogspot.my/p/blog-page_10.html

New Stencyl topic: how to import font from windows

intorduction: Stencyl 2.x provides 3 fonts which are
- Sans Serif - similar to Arial,
- Newspaper - similar to Times New Roman
- Typewritter - similar to courier
 windows > Fonts folder also has a lot of fonts to choose form
to import custom font from 
1. go to font section and create new font
2. click choose custom button
 
if you can't import directly from the folder C > Windows > Fonts
 
step 1: copy the font you want to copy from the Windows > Fonts folder.Right click in it and press "copy"
step 2: select the destination folder right click then paste on the destination folder (any folder you placed)
step 3: open Stencyl > yourgame and go to font section
step 4: create or edit font in the project(game) 
step 5: import font from the folder you have paste the font into.