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You will need lots of lists and stamping/cloning (in 2.0). Your question needs to be more specific though. What scripts do you need help with?

MoreGamesNow wrote:

Infinite terrain basically requires a list that will get VERY long quite quickly OR a more clever method, the basics of which I'm still organizing in my head.  The most basic way to generate terrain would be a "2D" array, in which you add to either the end or beginning depending on whether you're moving left or right (it's just 2D right?)

I wonder who would make a 3D one. xD

I'd personally be more concerned with mob AI.  Spawning mobs should be a matter of picking a random x position and spawning it on the highest block of that x position.

I would personally store your list like this:

x1: (item 1, item 2, item 3, item 4, item 5)
x2: (item 6, item 7, item 8, item 9, item 10)
x3: (item 11, item 12, item 13, item 14, item 15)
x4: (item 16, item 17, item 18, item 19, item 20)
etc.

So that, to add land either to the left or to the right, it is only a matter of inserting at the beginning or adding at the end, rather than inserting items throughout your list.

Then, to see that the x and y position (on the grid, not on the screen) of the pig should be when spawned, choose a random x and, starting at the first item of the list of items, run through it.

Example:

set [spawn_x v] to (3) // random number
set [y v] to (1)
repeat until <(item ((spawn_x*height_of_grid)+(y)) of [grid v]) = ["empty"]>
change [y v] by (1)
end

BTW, I'm assuming you're using a pseudo 2D list.  The wiki article here describes a method similar to what I'm using, but I believe I am flipping the x and y around (hence "x*height" instead of "y*width").

Last edited by MoreGamesNow (2012-11-09 21:26:16)

what are items?

i do not understand

Sorry, I edited the post, it should make more sense now.  Essentially, anytime you want to spawn a pig, you choose the x position ("spawn_x") and the above script should give you the y position (on the grid, not on the screen).

You could make a terrain that loops after you get a certain distance.