can anyone help me with a Function Help Please

[foleyjo]

Hi

Can someone help me with my function.
It starts in a ball collision any side of other ball.

It is supposed to count all the colliding actors that have the same colour using a function.

Then for each colliding actor that is a ball it counts the next lot of colliding actors and so on.

To prevent it getting locked in a loop of checks there is a variable called checked which is set to 1 each time it runs through the check

At the very end is another function that resets all the balls checked value to 0.

I have put some debug text in to see what is being counted and it never gives the correct number

[jimmynewguy]

Hi Foleyojo! One of the first types of games I made was a collapse type, this is how I did checks when the mouse was clicked. It can be changed to fit your game as well (aka what I did ) Try it out.

It seems like you were stuck on thinking about this and were trying to hard, try to think small and simple. It's easier on your brian

It's not exactly like the usual types of these games, since the actors go inside of each other instead of sticking in a grid type format. But it works! Plus you can always just "lock actors to a grid" to make it look professional, if you get what I'm saying.

Something like that

[foleyjo]

Thanks for that jimmynewguy.
Your method makes a lot more sense compared to what I was trying.

I think the more I thought about it the more difficult I was making it for myself.

1 point though I really need it to only destroy the balls if there are 3 or more matching colours colliding. I think now you have got me to simplify the way I am thinking about it, I should be able to do this now.