Animated slider
blendnzjnr
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Hi - this is my first post in the forum - it's good to have a suport system... I hope it works!
I am creating an iPod/Phone game involving dice,
where I will have a slider in the settings, which is a dice that can be dragged left and right (ie like a normal slider) which is animated to rotate, and the number on the dice indicates the setting (ie number of players).
I think it is a cool idea and I know it can work, but I have some issues I would love some help with.
If you want to see the dice images (256 x 256 - I'm wondering whether I need them that big?):
http://tutorials.blendnz.com/Media/Renders/Dice/0001.png
(Change the last number to see other frames in the animation)
Currently I have a rule on the dice actor that changes it's self.position.X attribute to the mouse Position,
as well as a constrain attribute which constrains self.Motion.Linear.X to 10*(game.Mouse.Position.X - self.Position.X)
This seems to give smooth dragging...
now the questions are:
1. How do I most easily animate the dice to change image at certain X positions?
(So that while you drag it right it animates the rotation in that direction, and when you drag it left it 'back-animates', rolling back with the movement)
2. How can I restrict the X position so that it can't be dragged past a certain point to the left or past a point to the right?
(ie so it stays on the slider)
3. AND following on from 2 is it possible to restrict the position of an actor to only certain X values? So that when you drag it kind of snaps to the next incriment?
Thanks everyone! look forward to a response!
I am creating an iPod/Phone game involving dice,
where I will have a slider in the settings, which is a dice that can be dragged left and right (ie like a normal slider) which is animated to rotate, and the number on the dice indicates the setting (ie number of players).
I think it is a cool idea and I know it can work, but I have some issues I would love some help with.
If you want to see the dice images (256 x 256 - I'm wondering whether I need them that big?):
http://tutorials.blendnz.com/Media/Renders/Dice/0001.png
(Change the last number to see other frames in the animation)
Currently I have a rule on the dice actor that changes it's self.position.X attribute to the mouse Position,
as well as a constrain attribute which constrains self.Motion.Linear.X to 10*(game.Mouse.Position.X - self.Position.X)
This seems to give smooth dragging...
now the questions are:
1. How do I most easily animate the dice to change image at certain X positions?
(So that while you drag it right it animates the rotation in that direction, and when you drag it left it 'back-animates', rolling back with the movement)
2. How can I restrict the X position so that it can't be dragged past a certain point to the left or past a point to the right?
(ie so it stays on the slider)
3. AND following on from 2 is it possible to restrict the position of an actor to only certain X values? So that when you drag it kind of snaps to the next incriment?
Thanks everyone! look forward to a response!
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