Actor control / movement question

harlin36

Hi all,
I am making a game that requires the character(a flying fat Chicken) to move in a particular way,when I touch the left side of the character I want to propel it right and vice versa. At the moment I can only make it fly in one direction(up)! How do I make it go in all directions so the user has total control of the actor?

Hope this makes sense !

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

UtopianGames

Depend if you want it to go only left right up and down, for eg you could make 4 rules like if touch is pressed and mouse position Y > self.position.Y propel upwards but if you did this for all 4 if you touch the bottom right corner for eg the chicken would propel left up diagonal.

For the chicken to ONLY go left right up and down i would probably make 4 invisible actors around the chicken constrained to its X Y and offset these.

Darren.

UtopianGames

Made a video for you,



Darren.

harlin36

Cheers Darren,this is exactly what i've been trying to do.what a star!!!

Thank's again,

Steve.

UtopianGames

Glad i could help.

Best of luck,

Darren.

harlin36

How can I make this work on a larger screen? I tried tshirtbooths camera offset fix but it doesn't
seem to work on this type of actor control.

harlin36

bummmp!

harlin36

If this is not possible could someone who knows tell me so I'm not wasting hours trying to make
it work ?
It feels like getting blood out of a stone sometimes on this forum!

Newbies like me depend on people with the knowledge of this program to point us in the right
direction.

If it's a matter of having to pay for the expertise please let me know.

Cheers

old_kipper

When you say bigger screen do you mean on a larger device or within a set camera size with a large scene size that you want to move your actor and camera over? If its the first it should work as is and if it's the second you need to set the camera to be controlled by the actor. The amount of slack in the camera is set in the scene camera control attributes.

harlin36

Hi old_kipper

It's a large scene size 4096x4096. I tried tshirtbooths camera offset fix but it doesn't seem to work on this movement ,only when the actor is constrained to the mouse/touch.
my actor is moved by outside touch meaning if I touch anywhere on the screen the actor
moves in the opposite direction.
P.S this is for iphone

old_kipper

Not quite sure of the effect you are after, and I don't know tsb's offset fix. I presume that you want to drive the actor about inside the scene and have the camera follow it? If so have you tried the ordinary control camera behaviour inside your actor? You can also get some interesting effects with this style of control by placing it on a non scrollable layer so it stay central to the camera. Maybe I am just not getting what your trying to do.... it happens.

harlin36

I already have a control camera behaviour inside the actor but I can't control the actor when it
gets past a certain point, the camera still follows the actor but the actor will only go up and to
the right!.

harlin36

Here is a video to illustrate the problem

old_kipper

It looks like your external actors or control areas have reached the edge and gone off the screen? If this is the case you will have to limit the the bird actor to within an area within the scene so this is never an issue. One alternative is to have you actor bounce on walls set up on the borders of the scene.

harlin36

Can anyone understand what I'm trying to do?

At the moment my imac is in serious danger of a good thrashing!!!

aaaaarrrgggghhh!