Positional 'Pow' after enemy is destroyed

Zombiebrains

Hi folks

I have a game in progress in progress at the moment. I have my magical orbs floating up to the top of the screen, being generated from a spawner off the bottom of the screen.

When the orbs are hit the fall back down to the bottom with a fade out but i would like to put a 'POW!!' graphic exactly where it was hit for a second have that fade with the orb still falling.

I will fade this out afterwards, which I know how to do but its the position of the hit I needs when I try and replace the orb actor for the POW graphic it falls down to the bottom of the screen...i need it to be placed where it was hit...the x and y co-ordinates

Please can someone tell me how this could be achieved?

Thanks guys

svn

CREATE AN INVISIBLE ACTOR and call it SpawnPOW . In your orb actors, tell tgem when they collide with actor SpawnPOW, spawn actor( POW graphic) In your (POW graphic) actor, put an interpolate rule: Interpolate self.color.Alpha to 0 in 1.5 sec

This should do the trick.

scitunes

If you have a bunch of baddies the spawning could cause glitches. One thing you can do without spawning is to have one pow actor and three attributes:

1) game.powX
2) game.powY
3) game.PowNow

In the baddie -
when collides with actor "Hero"
change game.powX to self.X
change game.powY to self.Y
change game.PowNow to 1

Then in the pow actor have this rule:

when game.pownow is true (1)
change self.X to game.powX
change self.Y to game.powY
interpolate width to 128 (or whatever)
interpolate height to 128 (or whatever)
-----rule when width = 128
-----change game.pownow to 0
Otherwise (of the 1st main rule)
change self.x to ??? (offscreen)
change self.Y to ??? (offscreen)
change self.width to 2
change self.height to 2

The only problem with this method is if you need more than one pow at a time. You may need modify the above method like this:

3 actors (or more) pow1, pow2, pow3
The 3 attributes listed above for EACH pow (game.pow1x, game.pow2x, game.pow3x, etc.)

Zombiebrains

thanks guys for those ideas...

Sorry forgot to say that nothing collides with the orbs. The orbs are destroyed when the player presses a coloured bullet on a gun that is controlled by a boolean true event. ;player presses red bullet which in turn destroys red orb on screen.

I then have it so that when the event is true then the orb velocity is turned downwards, the orb fades out and travels downwards.

I need a 'POW' at the exact time the orb is effected by the true event and turns downwards.

Sorry about that

Zombiebrains

Thank you so much SVN

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CREATE AN INVISIBLE ACTOR and call it SpawnPOW . In your orb actors, tell tgem when they collide with actor SpawnPOW, spawn actor( POW graphic) In your (POW graphic) actor, put an interpolate rule: Interpolate self.color.Alpha to 0 in 1.5 sec

This should do the trick.

That did do the trick...work like a treat!

Thank you so much!

p.s Thank you scitunes again..