boolean or switch on collision trouble
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Gamesalad won't let me use a boolean with collision. I have an actor A that on collision with a ground actor B resets its position to out-of-screen and where it touched the ground attaches an actor C.
I pool all my objects so that I don't have to spawn and destroy as from what I've read - destroyed objects are left in memory.
The problem is that I have a boolean set to go true if actor A collides with actor B... however nothing happens. I researched this and a suggestion from CodeMonkey I believe it was, was to use an integer as a switch:
game.Switch = 1-game.Switch
I've done that before in ActionScript and it worked well. Doesn't work at all in GS though.
Anyone have any other suggestions.
I think to better explain what I want to do is like Tetris. I want an actor to be like a falling block and fall into position. Except, that the falling block rather switches back out of screen and leaves a duplicate in it's place. All the duplicates are pooled off screen and I have working logic to make sure that only one is selected at a time. Due to certain events that happen, it is impossible to have pieces fall by themselves into place.. they can only be placed there by the single moving actor.
I pool all my objects so that I don't have to spawn and destroy as from what I've read - destroyed objects are left in memory.
The problem is that I have a boolean set to go true if actor A collides with actor B... however nothing happens. I researched this and a suggestion from CodeMonkey I believe it was, was to use an integer as a switch:
game.Switch = 1-game.Switch
I've done that before in ActionScript and it worked well. Doesn't work at all in GS though.
Anyone have any other suggestions.
I think to better explain what I want to do is like Tetris. I want an actor to be like a falling block and fall into position. Except, that the falling block rather switches back out of screen and leaves a duplicate in it's place. All the duplicates are pooled off screen and I have working logic to make sure that only one is selected at a time. Due to certain events that happen, it is impossible to have pieces fall by themselves into place.. they can only be placed there by the single moving actor.
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EDIT: Now, I tried everything. I can't get the boolean or switch to work for ANY condition... keypresses, x-axis > number, collision, etc. Is it because I'm trying to access the game.attributes from the prototype??? This is like my current class assignment - code a tic tac toe game in asp.net. It makes you want to go on a rampage.
.. speaking of rampages, I could go on a coffee rampage right now.
Anyway, don't delete this thread. This tidbit of info may be useful to others having the problems with the bug. Solution: start over.