Color Inheritance

OrchestralMonkey

How do I have an actor inherit the color of another actor when clicked?

--Lee

netdzynr

Color is kind of a chore because you have to set 3 different attributes (red/blue/green). If I understand what youre trying to do, you have store the color attributes of the first actor in 3 scene or game level attributes so the second actor can read them and set it's color as needed.

If you're working with a limited number of colors, you can use "codes" to represent each color and rule to determine what color is needed. Kind of like:

If colorCode = 1
red = some value
green = some value
blue = some value

If colorCode = 2
red = some value
green = some value
blue = some value

Etc

OrchestralMonkey

My apologies for not being more specific. What I really need is for the actors to 'swap' colors:

If actor1 is touched then change actor1's color to actor2's and also change actor2's color to actor1's.

Hope that clears it up, if not let me know.

My original train of thought was this:

If actor1 is touched then 'Change Attribute' self.Color.Red = actor2.Color.Red (and repeat for green and blue values), but I couldn't get that to work (unless I did something wrong).

netdzynr

You can do this for non-prototype actors (actors to whom you assign behaviors within a scene, as opposed to their prototypes). You have to unlock the actor's behavior of course, and you access the other actor's color attributes via Current Scene > Layers > Background > Actor Name Here > Color > Red... etc.

But again, the above will only work at the scene level, not on prototype actors. To switch colors using prototypes, you need to use the above method I mentioned, storing color values in game-level attributes.

CodeMonkey

You can use game attribute color attributes for the actors. And have the state of the actions stored as a game attribute as well.

States:
0 - Nothing Selected
1 - One actor selected
2 - Second Actor Selected

Here is the demo:

http://gamesalad.com/game/play/88574

OrchestralMonkey

Thanks CM, I'll give that a try.

The only thing it looks like I'd need to change is to have the swap occur immediately when one actor is touched instead the swap happening when the second actor is touched.

I only have three actors (left, middle, right) so whatever the color of the middle is, that is what gets swapped with either the left or right when either of them (left or right) is touched. The left and right actors are active the middle actor is just a container if that makes sense.

CodeMonkey

Updated the demo. Its on the second scene.

Still at http://gamesalad.com/game/play/88574

CodeMonkey

Yeah, I see, trying to figure that out now. Thanks.

CodeMonkey

Ok. all fixed.

OrchestralMonkey

CM,

Thank you so much for the demo. This is exactly what I was trying to achieve. Thank you again.

--Lee