Potemkyn

After doing addional analysis on SystemDefense and its classes, SmokeTrail is still causing the gameplay to slow down.

I'm Looking for a couple of folks to help critique and optimize some AS2 code. Send me a message if you are interested.

Made progress on the HelpPanel system. Working out some additional dynamic parts. It's essentially a horizontal menu with text panels that fade in. The return button fades the entire system out and resets the focus to the first panel.

Beginning work on the UI. I built a system in AS2 and AS3 awhile back for a helpmenu. I'm going to start with that code and hopefully make a more advanced menu system for this. helpPanel used fading for each help text section and the Indicator slid (tweened) to the button pressed.

Ah - left something out in a previous post. The explosions and explosion classes have been renamed to explode and explosion. This allows me to create a combination of the two and call that explosions.

Just a thought...

Created a new weapon system today, all three are working properly (Laser, Missile, and RailGun). Hoping to add two more later - after I do work on the Weapon System Menu and purchasing menu. STILL having an issue with SmokeTrail!!! It's the primary culprit with performance issues.

Used explode and explosion in another app and found a problem with explode - it was not able to access the (custom) gTween class without the this modifier inside of a with{ } section. Fixed, working in two applications now.

Finished Explosion, will make a more diverse Explosions class or function that will incorperate Explosion, Shrapnel, Smoke, and particles.

Worked on the Explosion class again, ended up making a somewhat more interesting animation. So I'll have two classes, Explosion and Explosions. Also made two new classes: Shrapnel and SmokeTrail. These are mostly done, whereas I still need to use bitMapdata in Explosion(s).

Reworked the Puff method into a Class, Thanks, Arkitx!