it is maybe useful to "glue" two actives together.
letīs say you do have 20 same collider actives under your 20 same sprites actives ... without fastloop it can happen ,that some colliders of them are connected with two sprites ,and another collider doesnīt have a sprite then.
also good to tell that only the sprite should act that is at the current collider ...
A few neat and wonderful things that fastloop can do:
-create a starfield
-create snow(or anyother thing that falls from the sky)
-perfect platform collisions(or any movement)
-create firework particles
-magic special effects(produce a bolt of lightning instantly, etc.)
-platform shadow engine(shadow stays on the floor directly below you
-instant hit bullets
-create multiple objects at once with random properties
-random terrain
fastloop doesn't do any of those, but it does make doing them a lot faster
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I'm aware of the fast loop implementations for collision detection (except for those ever-pesky moving platforms where I can't get rid of overlap when the character is moving against the platform). I also use it to eliminate the lag between positioning objects relative to each other. But I've heard of fast loop being one of the most useful extensions ever created (just by doing those two things above, I agree). I'm really curious about fast loop animations, though, if they really exist.
IMO fast loop just used by itself can only go so far in what it can do, but when you really use it in creative ways, and with other extensions, it starts to give you the power to create massively brilliant things.
What fast loop can HELP do:
RTS engines and other multiple-object features found prominantly in RTSs
Complex AI for multiple enemies
Pretty much any really cool effect, you are limitted by your imagine only
Random terrain generation was mentioned, but I just wanted to mention it anyway
Finding objects/data members that meet specific criteria (fastloop does it "instantly")
Really cool weapons (instant bullets is the absolute top of the tip of the iceberg. Laser beams, chain lightning attacks, hunter-seeker missiles, anything you can imagine!)
Plus infinitely more things that I don't have the genius to imagine.
About the animations...hmm, sorry never come across it before.
To make a long story short:
Fastloop just repeats the events you want to repeat. If you don't know what it's for, you don't need it . Back in the old days, we oldbies used to just copy and paste events to make it work faster. Very messy.
Modine:
Just have a code for making the bullets move and fastloop it.
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Yes but fastloop lets you repeat things a variable number of loops, whereas copy and pasting events is a set number of repetitions.
Also fastloop executes mid-event, so it can act like a sub-program/function that doesnt return a value.
So if i have something like this:
Always:
Set alterable string of tempString to "There are "
Start loop "Count Players" for NObjects("player") loops
Set alterable string of tempString to string$(tempString) + string$(players) + " players"
And then if the count player loop altered the players string, this action list would still work, because when the loop is started, it goes out, runs the loop, then returns to the action after the loop call. Its very powerful.
Anyway Muz is right, if you dont know what its for, you don't need it .
Biax:
Do you know how confusing that code would look to a newbie? Nothing like string$ and NObject to give a poor newbie a headache .
The way you write it, I'm not even sure which is a condition and which is an action.
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Fastloops are incredibly useful. Programmers in programming languages like C++ use loops 99% of the time, and they are a great addition to MMF.
A decent RTS engine relies almost entirely on a fastloop based engine.
The fact that something might complicate a newbie is no excuse to not use something. By that thinking, nobody should use C++, because nobody would understand it
I meant that if you don't know what it's for, then you don't need to use it. If you can't figure out what C++ is for, it's not yet time for you to use it .
Fast loops just repeat an event really um... often at one time. If you see no reason to do so, there's no reason to.
If you notice that your line of code is programmed to repeat the same procedure over and over again, like loading a map from an array or copy & pasting platform events several times, then you need the fast loop.
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