Castle Paradox

[SunsOfFlame]

Alright, I'm trying to make a Tetris clone, and the only thing I can't get is how to keep the blocks as one. I have creation and moving down, but I need to handle stopping before I can work on really anything else.

I'm trying to explain this though its difficult.

I need a block to stop when one part of it hits a stopping point
Then it will turn into another sort of block(which acts now as a stopping point for future blocks)
But the block itself must keep shape, and not break into seperate peices.

I'm using NPC 0 as the block, and probably NPC 1 as stopping points.

Any help?

EDIT-I thought I had one, it would check if the NPC was still moving (NPCs stp when they hit each other right?) But it stops the block as soon as the script reaches it.

Moving script(works):

[junahu]

In Tetris, there's only ever one block moving at a time. Therefor, when one block lands and turns into npc 1 it must then also turn all the blocks in the shape to npc 1


[c][d]
[b]
[a]

if [a] lands, it must turn [d] into npc 1 to stop it falling.
if [d] lands, it must turn [a] into npc 1 to stop a, b and c from falling

[d]
[c][b][a]

if [a] lands, it must turn [b] and [c] into npc 1 to stop b,c and d falling.
if [b] lands, it must turn [a] and [c] into npc 1 to stop a, c and d from falling
if [c] lands, it must turn [b] and [a] into npc 1 to stop a and b falling

of course, repeating this for every rotation of all 7 shapes would be stupid.

   [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
[a]
[b]
[c]
[d]
[e]                 5e
[f]
[g]
[h]
[i]

alternatively you could just turn every npc in a four block radius around the npc into npc1.

also, a word of advice. In your scripts you should refer to the npcs in order from the bottom of the screen to the top (for when you clear a line and the whole structure has to turn back to npc 0 and move down).

of course, you shouldn't listen to my advice at all. It sucks
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[Guest]

my last diagram didn't come out right. e5 should be in the very centre of the grid

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

wait for all is bad idea, don't use it

did you make usable a global variable? if so, than the script should work, if not, make it than.
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[junahu]

usable has to be a global variable. Local variables have to be defined within the script that they are used and there is no variable(useable) in that script.

besides, I think his problem is keeping all the blocks in the shape as one

e.g.
an L block landing on a square block as below

[a1][a2][a3]......
............[a4]......
............[b1][b2]
............[b3][b4]

[a4] stops moving and becomes npc 1. [a3] stops too because it is immediately above [a4]. [a1] and [a2] keep falling however, because they haven't been told to stop moving

............[a3]......
............[a4]......
............[b1][b2]
[a1][a2][b3][b4]

and they end up here. This would make tetris almost impossible to lose because blocks would keep falling until they fill a gap.

Is ths your problem? (sorry I didn't explain it quite so well earlier)
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[TMC]

Yes, can you please explain exactly how it does not work?

Also, you should be writing

[junahu]

"But the block itself must keep shape, and not break into seperate peices"

This is his problem (I'm sure of it even though I generate no response every time I post about it )


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[ShakeyAir Not Logged in]

Yea, usable is global.

The Checkforland should turn it off if the block hit a landed block, and when its off, the Move script shouldn'tdo anything....

I can't mess with it now (grounded from the computer, got written up a few times today at school....parents are downstairs)I should have included that when I run the game, the block goes down 1 and stops. I don't know why.....

Wait...while writing this...I think I figured it out. TOo bad I still can't mess with it.

I put the script linking for Checkforland outside of the loop. Its gotta be inside to work...That still, however, doesn't explain why the blcok stopped...I got some bugfixing to do when I'm ungrounded in awhile haha...

...wait...i think it has something to do with the WaitForAll too...
I dunno lol.

Sorry I didnt log in. In a hurry. Peace.