Trouble controlling a character

craigybwoy

Hi forum, I am a new developer and I am having trouble with controlling the character. What I am looking to do is as follows:

1) touch the actor To highlight him
2) touch a location on screen for him to walk towards.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Craig

quantumsheep

You could simplify this by just making the character walk to the mouse x/y position when pressed.

Unless there's a reason you're highlighting the character to begin with?

QS

craigybwoy

Thanks for the response, but there are a couple of actors on screen and the user needs to be able to move them independently. the first touch is to identify what character they require and the second is to identify the position that the actor is to move to.

simo103

if you open New in GS and search for this demo I think it does exactly what you are looking for:

EXAMPLE: Select with mouse and click to move (extended)

let me know if you can't find and/or download it.

craigybwoy

Perfect! Thank you I do have one more question which I am sure is pretty obvious.. Once I have added a actor how do I delete them from the stage?

simo103

generally people would use the Destroy behavior based on a trigger like touch or touch then a timer.

However there is the option of setting the rule to move the actor offscreen but setting its X and Y values to an X and Y value that is out of your camera. I believe in the right case this is a good move to preserve FPS if you are moving, spawning and destroying a number of actors.

If that doesn't cover what you need can you be a little more specific by describing your gameplay a bit?