Change Weapons/Animations

stanimation

Hey All, I'm trying to figure out how to have a icon/button that, when tapped, changes weapons on the player, and button, and subsequently changes the animations of the player. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks!

jonmulcahy

attributes attributes attributes!

a simple example:

create an attribute called Weapons

create a button that when touched, changes the value of weapons:
- when actor receives touch change attribute game.Weapons = (game.Weapons+1)%2
where 2 is how many weapon choices you want.

on the button you can have rules like this:
when attribute game.Weapons = 0
change image misslebutton.png

when attribute game.Weapons = 1
change image lazerButton.png

on your player you'd need two sets of rules, animation and weapon. for animation it's easy:
when attribute game.Weapons = 0
animate (put specific images here)

when attribute game.Weapons = 1
animate (put different specific images here)

for weapons it's slightly different, but still pretty straight forward. You'll have a few rules based on each weapon type. so, if you had a laser and a missle, and using the keyboard Spacebar as the trigger:

when attribute game.Weapons = 0 AND button space is down
spawn actor lazer

when attribute game.Weapons = 1 AND button space is down
spawn actor missle

something like that anyways. if you want to give a little more details, like the kinds of weapons and how you plan on activating the shooting we could get more specific.

stanimation

Awesome thanks! I think I get it? I will try this when I get time this evening. Work gets in the way of fun stuff :P