After some experimenting:

1. Documentation is wrong. loopTime is in seconds, not milliseconds.

2. It seems it's openfl.audio.Sound that's flawed -- calling play with any number of loops works fine, but playing the same sound multiple times results in a cutoff at the end, as well as Event.SOUND_COMPLETE not being called.

edit

All this seems to apply only to next for whatever reason.

Hello,

I'm trying to play a file once from the start and then loop it from a fixed point:

var sound:FlxSound = new FlxSound();
sound.loadEmbedded("assets/sounds/tone.wav");
sound.looped = true;
sound.loopTime = 500;
sound.play();

Any idea why this isn't working? The loop plays twice from 0-length and then stops.

Hi!

I'm trying to make use of the new per-sprite shader capability, by implementing dynamic shading, but, if I understand correctly, that means loading a second texture to the shader. How can I do this?

Thanks!

This looks really fun! Good luck!

@starry-abyss From within the sprite itself, only if I have the sprite extend a SortableFlxSpriteor something, but I was trying to avoid that, since I can't then have the sprite extend anything else...

@starry-abyss I mean

override public function add(Object:FlxBasic):FlxBasic 
{
	super.add(Object);
	sortSpritesByZ();
	return Object;
}

Which is meant to be cleaner than having to remember to call sort every time I call add. This is working now (I was calling sortSpritesByZ() before super.add(Object) and not after ), but there's still the issue of this not updating if I change a sprite's Z. Since the property comes from an Interface, I can't really have a set behaviour. Anyone have any ideas?

(By the way; flicker can be solved using

function sortSpritesByZ() {
		sort(function(Order:Int, entityA:FlxBasic, entityB:FlxBasic):Int {
			var zA:Int = 0;
			var zB:Int = 0;
			
			if (Std.is(entityA, IZSortable)) zA = cast(entityA, IZSortable).Z;
			if (Std.is(entityB, IZSortable)) zB = cast(entityB, IZSortable).Z;
			
			if (zA == zB)
				zB++;
			
			return FlxSort.byValues(Order, zA, zB);
		}, FlxSort.ASCENDING);
	}

)

Looks damn sexy ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

Good luck with your exams!

Moving my sortSpritesByZ()to add(Object:FlxBasic) just doesn't work.

Why should overlapping objects have different Zs? Just found out that's precisely why the sprites flicker; I guess HaxeFlixel isn't deterministic on how it decides which sprite should be on top, if they have the same Z value.

Still wanting to know where I should put sortSpritesByZ() instead of update() to prevent my FPS from plummeting.

Hello! :wave:

I'm trying to implement a Z variable system to allow for easy sprite sorting. My current code works fine on Windows, but the sprites flicker on Flash, regardless of whether I call sortSpriteByZ() before or after super.update(elapsed)!

Code:

function sortSpritesByZ() {
	sort(function(Order:Int, entityA:FlxBasic, entityB:FlxBasic):Int {
		var zA:Int = 0;
		var zB:Int = 0;
		
		if (Std.is(entityA, IZSortable)) zA = cast(entityA, IZSortable).Z;
		if (Std.is(entityB, IZSortable)) zB = cast(entityB, IZSortable).Z;
		
		return FlxSort.byValues(Order, zA, zB);
	}, FlxSort.ASCENDING);
}

And my IZSortableInterface:

interface IZSortable 
{
	public var Z:Int;
}

Result on Flash: