Questions for David Grace regarding Cloudburst

#1 Thanks Christopher -- sorry for not replying earlier to this.

Level scheduling is done almost exactly how it is done for my other 2D shooter, Adagio. There is one "fake" tilemap layer which contains onTileScript events for the various enemies. (Use CTRL-click to edit a tile's properties and edit parameters sent to onTileScript.) So when I want to play, say, enemy #10 on a certain tile, I click on it and then edit the tile script parameter to be "s 10".

Then, in my onTileScript event, I take the parameter and act upon it... For example:

function fxTileMap2D::onTileScript (%this, %tilelayer, %tilepos, %tilescript)
{
	if ($paused || $tileEditorActive)
	  return ;
	%cmd = getword (%tilescript, 0) ;
	%val = getword (%tilescript, 1) ;
	
	if (%cmd $= "s")  // we are an enemy tile
	{
		%pos = "900" SPC (getword (%tilepos, 1) * 40 + 20) ;  // get the relative position of the tile
                %obj = spawnEnemy (%val, %pos) ;
        }
}

#2 Thank you for this info @Grace
this sure is a simple and easy way to do
something I was planning to do too :)

#3 Hey David,

That's a very cool solution! Thanks for sharing!