Growing Actor until it touches other actor

pmanacas

Hi, I'm stuck with this.

I have a scene with collidable walls and balls of different sizes scattered around.
I need to spawn a new ball actor and grow it until it touches either a wall or another of the existing balls.

I know how to grow the actor using a variety of means (interpolate, timer with change width and height, resize actor...) but can't find a way to make it stop growing when it touches another actor.

help with be very much appreciated :-)

thanks Pedro

RThurman

Here is one (of probably many):

Timer (every .025 seconds)
--When actor overlaps or collides with actor of type wall
---- (its blank here)
--Otherwise
----Change Attribute: self.Size.Width To: self.Size.Width + 10

micksolo

hey there, i had the same problem in one of my games. Basically collisions don't work when actors are changing size, one of the limitations of GS. What you need to do is to set a state for the actor that changes when it touches the wall.

For example

When actor of type Ball touches actor of type wall
Chg attribute State - 2

Then a seperate rule
When attribute state = 2, (stop getting bigger, apply gravity, etc)