rotating the game world

Steamworks

so i was thinking about creating a game where if you touched the screen (or a button) everything in the world except your player would rotate 90 degrees. how would i do this? would i link everything but my actor to a game attribute where if turned to 1, 2, 3, or 4 they would all rotate a certain way?

dmilinovichiii

No. In the scene attributes I think you can rotate the camera.

Steamworks

i dont need to rotate the camera, i want to rotate everything but my character. i looked it up online and i just found a game called "and yet it moves" and they have exactly what i was thinking. i think i figured it out except i cant get things to snap rotate. i want it so if you touch the button it rotates 90 degrees. when i touch the button you have to hold it down to rotate.

zombieaddict

instead of telling the actor to rotate on touch. have a "spin" integer attribute set to 0 that turns to 1 when you touch the actor. then have a seperate rule that states when game.spin = 1, and then your rotational rules. that way the game will have no choice but to carry out the full rotation because the attribute will stay at 1.

BSideGames

Go take a look at the DBA template... cheap all summer

http://www.deepblueapps.com/Deep_Blue_Ideas_Ltd./GSTemplateFFU.html

Steamworks

zombieaddict said:
instead of telling the actor to rotate on touch. have a "spin" integer attribute set to 0 that turns to 1 when you touch the actor. then have a seperate rule that states when game.spin = 1, and then your rotational rules. that way the game will have no choice but to carry out the full rotation because the attribute will stay at 1.

thx i fallowed what you said and it worked great... except after i hit it once then if i hit the button again it wont rotate again. the attribute stays at 1 and wont go back to 0. is their a way to change it back to 0 without having a timer. maybe a way to change the attribute to 0 once the rotation is completed?

hman360

Make another rule.

When att_ = 1
And touch is pressed or whatever

Change attribute _ back to 0 (or change whatever attributes or rules)

So have one for 0 and one for 1 to change it back.

Hope that helps

Steamworks

hman360 said:
Make another rule.

When att_ = 1
And touch is pressed or whatever

Change attribute _ back to 0 (or change whatever attributes or rules)

So have one for 0 and one for 1 to change it back.

Hope that helps

thank you! i was thinking about that but couldn't get it to work

hman360

Did it work?

Steamworks

yah it worked but now i have another problem -.- i want it so every time i hit the button it rotates again. so if i have a button set for 90 degrees (going to the right) then every time i hit the button my object will rotate 90 degrees (to the right). that doesn't happen though.

Steamworks

nvm i got it to work lol