Shapes of buttons

rabbigarfinkel

Hello,

Does a gamesalad actor or button have to be rectangular or square? Or could a button follow the contours of an irregular shape such as a state or country? I'm making a "find the state on the map" game. Right now, each state has a bullseye actor that the user touches. But it would look so much better if the state itself were the button. Rectangular/square actors are fine for Wyoming and Kansas, but not for Irregularly-shaped states like Californa or Idaho. I realize that I could change the bullseye actor's alpha to zero, but that would leave some parts of states unpressable.

Thanks,

Eli

rabbigarfinkel

I see now that someone else asked this question today.

Clouds

@rabbigarfinkel

Just cover each state with a few boxes (blank actors) . . . and make them invisible (alpha = 0):

rabbigarfinkel

OMG that's brilliant...thank you!! One question: If California has.three invisible button actors, do all three get identical rules?

Clouds

"If California has.three invisible button actors, do all three get identical rules?"

Depends on what the rules do, if - for instance - clicking on a square adds +1 to a value, then clicking on a box adds +1 to a value (unsurprisingly!) . . . and clicking where two boxes overlap will add +2 to a value . . . (which you might not want).

So in this instance you might not want to use instances of the same actor . .

If on the other hand clicking on any box or any overlapping two boxes in California takes you to a new scene ("Congratulations, that's the correct answer, you have correctly identified California ! You win a lollipop and a signed photograph of a donkey!!") then it doesn't really matter that the 'go to next scene' (or whatever) is returned twice, so you can probably just option drag a bunch of boxes (instances) to cover the area in this scenario.

So . . . depends on what happens when you click on a box.

You can probably cover most states sufficiently with non-overlapping boxes if it's an issue, anyone who repeatedly presses on the small areas not covered by a box deserves everything that's coming to them and will eventually be weeded out of the gene pool anyway.