Interrupting interpolate....

LBG

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue. I am trying to recycle actors in my scene and have one that interpolates across the screen in a linear fashion that when reduced to 0 life needs to move off screen. The problem is that it does not. I currently have:

Gravity rule: Acceleration down
Bounce rule: Acceleration up (actor bounces across screen)
Move Rule: When self.pos.X < 0 interpolate self.pos.X to 510
Shoot rule: When actor posX is less than 500 shoot
Die Rule: When self.life = or is less than 0 change attribute self.pos.x to 510
Detect Cycle: When Random1-100 is > 80 and < 100 and self.pos.x is = 510 and game.difficulty > 1 change self.position to -25

Surely the above should work? I have it on other actors that move into the screen but not all the way across but that can't be the issue can it?

Thanks for any help

LBG

gyroscope

Hi LBG, Interpolate can't be interrupted while it's doing it's thing, unfortunately. Maybe try Move To behavior, see how that goes.

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tenrdrmer

I beg to differ.

Check out my demos http://gamesalad.com/p/tenrdrmer/games

They is a scene preview demo that interrupts interpolate as well as a cancel interpolate demo. Its more trickery to make it seem interrupted but it works very nicely.

Those demos are still on the old online publishing so I think you will have to search them inside GameSalad to actually download them.

tenrdrmer

And actually I think in your case LBG I would just change the color to alpha if they die and let them keep on moving. Also and collision rules just add the condition alpha = 1 so they stop detecting when he's been killed.

LBG

Thanks for your help guys. Unfortunately if I use move it will affect the accelerate rules that I have. I'll try your advice tendrmer.

Cheers

LBG

gyroscope

tenrdrmer said:
I beg to differ.

Check out my demos http://gamesalad.com/p/tenrdrmer/games

They is a scene preview demo that interrupts interpolate as well as a cancel interpolate demo. Its more trickery to make it seem interrupted but it works very nicely.

Those demos are still on the old online publishing so I think you will have to search them inside GameSalad to actually download them.

Thanks Aaron, I'll check out your demos with interest. :-)

LBG said:
Thanks for your help guys. Unfortunately if I use move it will affect the accelerate rules that I have. I'll try your advice tendrmer.

Cheers

LBG

OK, LBG; sorry I couldn't help. I guess that using Move To would affect acceleration, although I'm surprised Interpolate doesn't! :-) Anyhow, hope you get it sorted; sure you will with tenrdmer's demos.

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tenrdrmer said:
And actually I think in your case LBG I would just change the color to alpha if they die and let them keep on moving. Also and collision rules just add the condition alpha = 1 so they stop detecting when he's been killed.