Attaching one actor to another

Ninjaworx

I've searched the forums and also checked out some demos but I'm missing something here. I want a glow to follow my player actor. The player is currently controlled by tilting the accelerometer. Then I added this to the player:

Constrain Attribute game.OffsetX(my integer) to Self.Position.X
Constrain Attribute game.OffsetY(my integer) to Self.Position.Y

Which I thought would sample where the actor is(?).
Then I added this onto my glow, thinking it would move based on the player actor since I flipped the attributes:

Constrain Attribute Self.Position.X to game.OffsetX
Constrain Attribute Self.Position.Y to game.OffsetY

I'm a GS newb but this looked like the correct method from the demos. Any assistance in my dumbassness would be appreciated.

gamedivision

did you check out tshirtbooths constrain one actor to another
http://www.youtube.com/user/GameSaladCookbook#p/u/47/JnlxvMlPG-k

Hotwire

Yeah, the only difference is I'm using the Accelerometer to move the player so I tried to modify his example but I can't get it to work. He's sampling the mouse position which doesn't apply to my actor. I tried to insert Game.Accelerometer instead of mouse position but no luck. Also he's using a Rule that activates this by the mouse again and I couldn't figure how to replace that to fit my Tilt control either.

old_kipper

Create two game real attributes and constrain them to the player position x and y and then constrain the glow x and y to the game attributes with the offset you want added. I think this will work...

hope it does and good luck but I am not sure that it is any different to your first attempt...

kipper

Ninjaworx

haha, glad I'm not the only one stuck on this. Thanks Kipper, I'll play around with it and let ya know.

Ninjaworx

Yeah, didn't work. Basically the same as I had before. I'm not sure where I'm screwing up since it seems to be a very simple task that I even pulled from the Tourch Demo. Maybe it's because my scene isn't standard 480x320? I don't think that should mater though. I'll test it.

old_kipper

it should not matter what size the scene is

cheers kipper