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Game Ideas / Re: Question for other musicians

« on: July 07, 2011, 12:43:05 pm »

It really does depend how much effort you want to put in. And what you're working on too. If it's a classical piece, it may take longer to set up properly than a chiptune work or an ambient drone piece. I've spent anytime between an hour or two to three days working on something on and off, and it's hard to tell whether the time spent has actually improved the song haha.

I personally rarely ever write or compose before sitting down and just putting notes on. It's more of a dirty finger-painting thing for me, rather than meticulous planning before even starting the sequencing. Which makes things easier but reduces the quality of the final work for sure.

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Ask a Question / Scene setting ID problem?

« on: July 07, 2011, 12:25:57 pm »

Maybe it's just me, but when I create a local Scene attribute and then try to set it with an (if > then) tree (I'm using a global variable to keep track of the last scene/level the player died on), the setter for the local scene variable experiences errors.

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public var _retry:Actor;
public var _lastSceneIWasOn:Scene;
override public function init():void
{

    if (sameAs((getGameAttribute("lastLevelIWasOn") as String), "level1"))
    {
        _lastSceneIWasOn = 0;
    }

    else
        if (sameAs((getGameAttribute("lastLevelIWasOn") as String), "level2"))
        {
            _lastSceneIWasOn = 4;
        }

        else
            if (sameAs((getGameAttribute("lastLevelIWasOn") as String), "level3"))
            {
                _lastSceneIWasOn = 2;
            }
}

This is generate after using the Design section of StencylWorks. Should it not be setting an ID, instead of setting the scene to an INT? I figure so, because of the error message I get:

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Behavior: Design_5_5_retryclick at line 40
Implicit coercion of a value of type int to an unrelated type stencyl.api.engine.scene:Scene.
            _lastSceneIWasOn = 0;



Behavior: Design_5_5_retryclick at line 45
Implicit coercion of a value of type int to an unrelated type stencyl.api.engine.scene:Scene.
            _lastSceneIWasOn = 4;



Behavior: Design_5_5_retryclick at line 50
Implicit coercion of a value of type int to an unrelated type stencyl.api.engine.scene:Scene.
            _lastSceneIWasOn = 2;
This is probably fixable using Code Mode, but I'm wondering if this is a bug or if I'm managing to mess it up in Design somehow. I'm using v 1.0.2 b402.

Aside from this, this is a great tool, thanks for making it!! Having a lot of fun playing with it.