Constrain 1 actor to another

micksolo

Hi,

I have 2 actors, man and collision.

man is just a guy running, and collision is separate because I only want collision on his head and not his whole body.

I have constrained attributes so collision sticks to the man, I set collisionPosY = ManPosY+40.

Problem is, when he runs on a flat ground, the collision sticks to him fine, but when he falls over the collision stays at Y+40. I tried setting a rule so that if ManPosYRotation >0, CollisionPosY=0 but that doesn't seem to work. Any help would be great!

Thanks

Mick

GLGAMES

You need to constraint both X and Y if i'm not wrong.
If actor fall means it's moving in X axis? so shouldn't you have a contraint for that too?

ozboybrian

You will either have to set up to Actors for the man.
Actor > Body
Actor > Head
Constrain head to the X and Y of the top of the body.

OR when collision overlaps or collides > Constrain to Y of Actor.

Second one is probably better. since it's only gonna use one actor.
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micksolo

ozboybrian said:
You will either have to set up to Actors for the man.
Actor > Body
Actor > Head
Constrain head to the X and Y of the top of the body.

OR when collision overlaps or collides > Constrain to Y of Actor.

Second one is probably better. since it's only gonna use one actor.

The first way you mentioned is how I implemented it. Problem is, when the actor Man rotates, the arms still appear at y+40, so when he's lying on the ground (which is common in my game!), his arms are floating parallel 40 pixels above.