Missing pieces..?

kobayaashi

Hi again, people. My second question of the day - I could really do with a little advice - I am currently putting together a puzzle game. All seemed to be going well, and I was almost finished, when I began to have a glitch...

The puzzle involves a large number of small tiles (81 @ 40x40px each) being in the scene at all times, occasionally being moved in batches of 9. On the whole, this works fine, but sometimes one or two of the tiles refuses to move to its allotted position. If the coding was wrong, I figure it would never go to where it should go, but this only happens at random times.

My question is : what could be happening? Could it be that there are too many actors in the scene, and the GS creator can't keep track? Is it likely to be a bug that only shows in GS creator and won't show on a phone (I haven't gotten around to checking on a device yet, as I have only just 'finished' this project, and don't own an iPhone or iPad anyway!)?

Any advice, suggestions, help or words of wisdom most welcome! Many thanks.

jonmulcahy

@kobayaashi

Make sure you have moveable unchecked and turn friction, density and bounciness set to 0 to disable the physics, that will reduce a lot of overhead.

Also, how are you moving your actors? If you are not using interpolate, start using it, it's a the most reliable way of moving objects on the screen

kobayaashi

This is still happening, at random. Guess I'll have to go to the checking procedure I've been given info on (on another thread) by the good folk on this forum, and get this game checked out on a device...

kobayaashi

Thanks, Jon. Will give all that a go. I'm currently using "move to" when an attribute is so-and-so. Will see if interpolate makes a difference. My friction, density and bounciness are currently at default setting, so will set them to zero as you suggest.

kobayaashi

Thank you @jonmulcahy - that did the trick! Lovin' the interpolatin'...