Breakout Game Powerups

MYRIX

I am making a breakout game - arkanoid style but have hit a stumblling block.
What I am trying to do is to have a superball pill released when the ball hits the brick (I have figured that out) but what I need it to do is once it touches the paddle it changes the existing moving ball to a different ball and this is the where I am stuck.

What I need is to change a moving actor which is not connected to the pill or the paddle into the powered up actor. Is this even possible in Gamesalad?

Can someone please please please help?

Braydon_SFX

Hm, try changed the image/actor when the ball hits the paddle. Its probably better to change the actor. As for when and where it will spawn, i don't know. there might be a place you can put the cords into.

MYRIX

Thanks for the reply, but what we need to do is change the moving ball to a different ball when power pill drops on the bat. We cannot find anywhere to replace the moving actor.

UtopianGames

I would change the image and depending what you want the speed and size of the power ball.

You will need a boolean or integer to trigger when pill hits bat....lets say we make a game.powerUp boolean and when pill collides with bat we change this to true.

Now we do if game.powerUp = true in the ball actor change image to....change size.width change size.height change game.speed or what ever you want.

Then after X seconds you can change game.powerUp back to false and change it all back to the original image size and speed.

Hope this helps.

Darren.

MYRIX

Thanks Darren you have pointed us in the right direction and it works fine.... did not think of triggers. Also we had a look at your site and started to buy your templates as well for future projects.
Raj