Moving small objects

ROCKHURWITDASHOCKER

Im trying to build a fully destructible house with really tiny and intricate pieces but the way the rotation and resizing buttons are placed its making it near impossible to move tiny objects around.. And moving them with the up and down arrows is way too time consuming.

Anyone have a solution?

tenrdrmer

You'll have to use your calculator and figure out your positions and input them manually. your x and y positions are the center of your object. so say you have a actorA 4x100 horizontal and then you want to put an actorB 4x52 vertical at the right end of actorA on top of it.
if actorA is x=250 y=100
Then actorB would be x=298 y=128
It takes alot of time to do it that way. you also should make sure your doing the multiple of 4 thing with your actor sizes and I would make a small test of your game before doing a bunch of it since I have to go back through my game and resize everything since my pieces where too small and made game play difficult as the actors didn't always detect my touch.
Hope that make any sense to you.

firemaplegames

In the Scene tab, under layers, you can select objects by clicking on their name. You can double-click on their name to go into their Attributes. It makes dealing with small Actors a little bit easier.

netdzynr

No doubt, Creator's editing tools leave much to be desired.

The only way around I've found to get around what you describe may be more trouble than moving the objects: edit the XML of the game project. You can get into the XML and edit actor positions (I do this all the time), but you have to be comfortable reading XML to know where to look. For me, this is less work than wasting all the time with Creator's editor.

Note that if something in the XML is written just slightly of out place, your game will refuse to load in Creator. So if you go this route, make sure to save a backup copy of the gameproj file before you modify anything.