Erasing, not destroying on actors (need help)

[speckford123]

On a collision event i want to erase parts of an animation without destroying it, is this possible? cause making thousands of copies doesn't sound fun.....

[makslane]

No, sorry

[Fuzzy]

Give me some more details; I might be able to think of a work around.

[speckford123]

Give me some more details; I might be able to think of a work around.

i mean when colliding it erases only a part and keeps it alive, etc.

[DilloDude]

So like something such as Worms, where you can blow holes in the ground?
I have thought of this, too. I figure there are only two ways

• Have a couple million individual actors that get destroyed (don't try this, your computer will probably crash)
• use a canvas to draw scenery, then draw transparency over parts of it.

The two main problems are:

• Making something to draw a level on the canvas, so you have a good looking level (perhaps a draw_canvas_from_bitmap feature would be useful).
• Getting script tw erase sections the right shape and size that you want.

[Fuzzy]

Diggable ground is possible, and pretty simple in execution, as computers have been doing this since 8086 days. It is possible in GE, but you are going to have to do your own collision detection routines.