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When I get to the part, I will add stars to the background in Lasership 2's gameplay. How do I make stars appear to move to the left as if the ship were flying through space to the right?

it depends, are the stars sprites or are they graphics?

Hello

sup.

I would like to make them graphics because I'm going to need all the sprites I can get.

ok so i had seen some code that did this exactly! ill go see if i can pull it up, but it will take a while as im going somewhere right now.

Okay.

you're going to want to make dots, keep their position stored, and then change it every frame. so, in smilebasic terms this means we'll need an array to save, a FOR loop to change the positions of the dots, and GPSET inside of that loop to draw. X=100 DIM STARS[X,2] 'the 2 means to save two values per item (x, y) WHILE TRUE 'this is your gameloop or wherever the star movement is

oh, and put this at the start of the code too: FOR I=0 TO X:STARS[I,0]=RND(400):STARS[I,1]=RND(240):NEXT back to in the gameloop: FOR I=0 TO X IF STARS[I,0] =< 0 THEN STARS[I,0] = 400 : STARS[I,1] = RND(240) GPSET STARS[I,0],STARS[I,1] DEC STARS[I,0],SPEED NEXT VSYNC 'look, ma! i'm stand-alone now! WEND

what PChicken said gtg save battery! bye! -sorry!

How do get the touchscreen too work?

that is very easy, you would use touch out, like TOUCH OUT TT,TX,TY making touch buttons are easy too, if you want to test around I would do something like SPSET 0,1 SPOFS 0,TX,TY (set it on the touch screen) tell me if you don't understand or need help making buttons or anything

Thanks! But I have a problem, I don't know how to get a sprite on the touchscreen...

you would use XSCREEN (i usually use XSCREEN 2) and to switch what screen your on use DISPLAY (1 or 0) remember to always switch back to the top screen after putting stuff there. tell me if this works or if you have any other questions.

Yo J.P it worked! Thanks a lot!

sure np. if you need anything else just ask

I need help with... Everything...

ok, maybe an example or something more specific will help, but ok. we will start with letters, A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z X there, next with typing, you press buttons of the letter you want inputted. so yeah

all i know is loading/editing sprites and dialog

do you know what the IF statement is and does? do you know what loops are and how to use them? do you understand variables and their types? please tell me which ones you know.

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yeah (and sorry about late response)

yes somebody to talk to! :')

ok how do I make it so that theres a coin on screen but when the player gets to the coin it disapperes and another coin shows up?

ah yes, theres a few ways, you can use SPHIDE, SPCLR (MANG NUM) you know how to do spcollision right?

um no

ok.. brb.

ok! so sprite collision is easy-ish so for every sprite you want to collide with you put SPCOL (management number) like SPCOL 0 (spcol makes it "watch" the sprite) do this for every sprite you want to collide with, lets say you want 2 sprites hitting eachother, do SPCOL 0:SPCOL 1 then you would use SPHITSP, this is for when you are making them hit, so it would be like IF SPHITSP (0,1) THEN (stuff)

? can you use a screenshot of what the code would be like because that didnt make much sense

sure.. in a minute im a bit busy right now, but basically for every sprite you want to collide with you put SPCOL (num)

mkay

there. thats how you would do it in the simplelest (ik thats not a word)

ok thanks lol but I want to pay attention to it :(

well don't its not correct or anything so as long as you don't do what I did lol.

also I tryed what you showed in the screenshot (not the tree stuff) and it works! thanks for the help!

sure np

How do I write a program that chooses a random number?

sorry, was banned 4 two weeks. so if you just want it to choose a number (and print it too) do a simple ACLS A=RND(100) PRINT A the 100 is the random numbers highest.

Will "? RND" work? Can't remember much. I've been very busy with other things.

huh.. idk.. ill have to try that! I mean if you do A=RND ? A would print RND, but just RND..? hmm.. gotta try that.

No, it will not print RND. In order to print 'RND', you will need a String variable type and quotes "" around the RND. It will print 0. Why? Because RND is not RND(), it recognizes it as a variable, and variables that are not predefined default to 0.