I only did this once but I filled the image with a light color and then erased it when I was done drawing it

In the map editor select layer 2 and place tiles,
Then to draw over sprite's have drawmaplayer(2) after drawsprites()

That would be collideMap(yourSprite), in the simplest case. That will move yourSprite out of the way of any collision zones of your map.

Depending on your game, you will need to do additional work. If you keep the desired location of your character in a variable, you need to read it out post-collision with getSpriteLocation().

If your character is supposed to have momentum/velocity, that is if it's not instantly stopping if you center the stick, you'll need to understand and use the returned data of collideMap and use it to modify the velocity so that further movement does not drive you further into the collision zones. Or maybe you want to bounce off walls. That is all

, very hard to explain in a vacuum and you probably don't need it at first.

@z-mann said in setmode and sprite coordinates:

@evilblade Do an additional update() right after setMode().

Yup! That seams to do the trick. Thanks, man!

@evilblade, there is also a subsection in the help menu called "Command References". If you look here you can find an explanation and usually a demo program for every function, operator, and key word in FUZE. This may help you out in the future, I know it's helped me a ton!

@pianofire I was doing the int wrong. Thank you!

It would genuinely be nice to have a third section for downloaded games, or a seperate place to download games. But I know the devs have heard that a million times and I'm sure it's on a todo list somewhere buried beneath a thousand more important features

OK then, tnaks a lot :)

In the above it only displays "Hurray!" when zl is NOT pressed (! operator) AND zr is NOT pressed.

So if zr is pressed or zl is pressed (or both are pressed) it is not displayed

NotAandNotB.png

Alright, I'll give it a go. Thanks for your help

More tutorials would be great, I know Dave has mentioned a few ideas for other series as well (byte size or something like that & possibly one talking through some of the awesome things some people have been able to do in their programs).

Fully appreciate that all the craziness makes it very difficult but hopefully we'll get some more videos when things get closer to normal 🤞🏻

Thanks for the tips! I started to go with the DrawImageEx(), but realized this wouldn't work. I needed to use DrawQuad().
I ended up hand creating a dot matrix font in the image editor, which was fairly easy.
(I actually created two others I didn't like as much. Ha, waste of time?)

Couldn't figure out how to set each character's width in the editor. They are all square. For now, I just hard coded the widths in the code, messy but works. If I could read the pixel values, I could figure it out procedurally.
I realized sometimes I want a fixed width! So I created a FontPrintFixed() routine. (For the Hi-Scores table).

Everything is looking great now:

I added the font to the game play too:

@PB____ There were problems with the QR codes when the messages got longer that I never got to the bottom of. At the moment the program is non functioning because it needs some refs adding to parameters. I have tested the image containing encoded data solution and that seems to work well.

Amazing, thanks a lot!

@pianofire gotcha, thanks for your the effort!!😊 just caught me a little off-guard coming from smilebasic where i could rely on the online reference.

Wow thanks so much for quick responses. Il look in to all your advice and will come back if I become unstuck. 👍 Cheers.

setSpriteDepth is very handy and if you're lazy like me, you can cut out a little of the typing by using spritename.depth = x rather than setSpriteDepth(spritename, x)

@SteveZX81 yep i was only processing one of the loops in my collision code so now it works with processing both ! , iv added life counters to my enemies spawn code so now to respawn its just enemylife =1 and there all reset.
cheers steve !