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Sketchy
Cornwall UK
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06/11/2004
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7th January, 2009 at 23:56:52 -
I'm having some trouble understanding exactly how MMF2 handles duplicates during fastloops.
If anyone could shed some light on the matter, I'd appreciate it 
Example
I have 4 duplicates of a counter object in a frame, and the following events;
* Start of frame
-> Set counter to Random(10)
-> Start fastloop "Test", 5 times
* On loop "Test"
-> Add 1 to counter
Personally, I'd have expected all four counters to show random numbers between 5 and 14.
What I actually get, is three of the counters showing "5", and the other counter showing a random number between 0 and 9.
What is going on?!
btw: My actual problem is probably caused by something else to do with fastloops going wrong, but I came across this when trying to make an example.
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Cecilectomy
noPE
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8th January, 2009 at 00:08:15 -
just wait a second. pixeltheif will be here shortly 
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Pixelthief
Dedicated klik scientist
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8th January, 2009 at 01:19:04 -
The object scope sometimes gets messed up if you do an action on an object BEFORE starting a fast loop inside event code. As a rule of thumb, never interact with an object in the same line you execute a fast loop or function or whatever; instead of doing:
* Start of frame
-> Set counter to Random(10)
-> Start fastloop "Test", 5 times
* On loop "Test"
-> Add 1 to counter
Do this:
* Start of frame
-> Set counter to Random(10)
* Start of frame
-> Start fastloop "Test", 5 times
* On loop "Test"
-> Add 1 to counter
Works perfectly! Don't ask my why its messed up, all I know is it is :X But it also applies to active objects, etc etc
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Sketchy
Cornwall UK
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06/11/2004
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8th January, 2009 at 01:35:32 -
Ok, thanks - think I've heard that before, now that you mention it
I managed to fix the other problem I was having, which I'd thought might be to do with fastloops (it wasnt).
Here's another problem (last one, promise)...
http://cid-b1e7ee094271bbda.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/LoSeg3.mfa
It works perfectly as it is.
I'm aware that it's not super-efficient, but that's not the problem.
I've tried adding an event to always add 1 to the enemy objects "CurrentHeading".
For some reason though, doing that always stops everything else working after about 5-10 seconds - it doesn't crash or anything, it just doesn't work anymore.
I don't have any timer based events, and it's not related to the object limit.
What else might be the problem?
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