smaller target area ... collision question

design219

This answer may exist already somewhere, but I'm not finding it.

In something like the "basic shooter", if I wanted to have to hit a smaller area on the enemy actor instead of the entire area of that actor, how would I do that?

design219

Sounds good, but how do you connect the two actors if the visible actor is in motion? and how do you make the collision with the smaller invisible actor affect the large visible actor?

Thanks for the help by the way.

PPenguin

http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:gsc_follow_another_actor

Make 2 actors.. One of them has nothing but the artwork, and it follows the other actor around.

Make the other actor invisible, and whatever size you want the collision box to be, and give it collision rules, controls, spawning rules, etc.

Good luck!

design219

Thanks people for all the help.

tshirtbooth... I've noticed you go above and beyond to help people in this forum. Don't think it isn't appreciated! You da man!

I don't want you to take away your game creating time... I think you guys have pointed me in the right direction to work it out.

design219

Okay, found the tutorial on how to make one actor follow another:
http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:gsc_follow_another_actor
And I have my invisible actor and visible actor moving together. Now I'm stuck on how to make the invisible actor communicate with the visible one... I want to visible to animate briefly and destroy itself after the invisible actor is hit.

I'm sure this is obvious, but again, I'm not seeing how.

CodeMonkey

Use game attributes. Say when the invisible actor gets hit, it does a Change Attribute on game.IAmHit to make it 'true'.(How to make an attribute in the basic how to's)

The visible sees the game.IAmHit is true and does its blinking. (There's a how to for that)

design219

Thanks CodeMonkey... I actually just figured that out and got it working!

Now I can't get the fade out to work. :-( I've followed the tutorial exactly and it's not working. Grrrrr.

Still, having a lot of fun working with Gamesalad!

paranoid_android

That only works with 1:1, what if you are spawning the actor multiple times. (I am afraid of the answer)

CatOnAKeyboard

I personally don't think what you want to do is actually possible if you are using spawned actors for both the projectile and the actor being hit... but hopefully someone on here can prove me wrong!

paranoid_android

I wonder if you can create a active area based on actor xy and touch inside actor xy? Difficult if the actor is animated, or has odd shape, or is being scaled. But here I go.With all said challenges.

@paranoid_android