Problem with vectorToAngle and camera

SinSquid

Hi everyone Love this forum, and usually I always find my answers here or in T-shirt booth`s tutorials, but now I´m really stuck.

Im working on a game with two blobs, that usese vectorToAngle to move when touch. I also have a camera that are moved by sliding with your finger (like angry birds). Everyting works fine untill the actors have moved outside the cameras start posistion. From then the actors can only move left, no matter what. This is super frustrating, and i can`t figure out why?

Heres the project file: http://www.knutgrafisk.com/sinsquid/gamesalad/blobproblem.zip
Can anyone help me with this?



Feel free to check out how i did the camera, movement, animations, etc... but please do not steal my graphics or sounds, will be working more on theese. Thanx

JohnPapiomitis

First off i like the graphics!

Second you need to add an offset for the camera

tatiang

I haven't been able to figure out the exact problem (although I can only get them to move RIGHT after a short while), but I did notice that after they have moved and hit the ground, clicking/tapping on them makes them fling themselves (e.g. really high velocity.X) to the right. So even though you're wanting swipe-dependent velocity controls for the actors, it's not behaving that way.

It still happens if I delete the Drag and Camera actors from the scene and add a "Control Camera" behavior to one of your actors.

Also, if you put a Display Text behavior on your actors set to the VectorToAngle expression you're using, you'll see that the Direction value gets set to near 0 while this is happening.

Again, I'm not solving anything, but maybe these clues will get you closer to a solution.

tatiang

You might need to use self.TouchX/Y and self.ReleasedX/Y values to capture where the touch and release points are (via When touch is pressed and When touch is released) and then put those in your VectorToAngle expression. Someone else will have to help with that part... I've seen it in a demo but can't remember where right now.

SinSquid

Oh sorry... i ment RIGHT, (not left). This is so strange. I think I´m missing some constrain attributes rules for the position of the actors or something, but I`ve tried everything I can think of.

SinSquid

Thanx guys, i will try this out (tonight, norwegian time), and report the solution if I get this to work. And thanx for the graphic comment, will be working more on this, there will be 3 layers of parallax, more detailed backgrounds, and I´m planning to make the blobs morph into a superblob when they collide.

SinSquid

Oh man... I still can`t figure this out. I´ve added a camera offset, but can`t seem to implement it correct in the vectorToAngle. Mabye @SaladStraightShooter or some of the gamesalad people know how to do this?

SinSquid

Just figured it out... after hours and hours, it feels like christmas over here.
The soulution: Added a camere offset (se the video) and then i added this vector to angle code, and it`s now working like a charm


Thanx for the help @JohnPapiomitis

slinky1988

Awesome! I also had the same problem and wasn't quite sure how to put it together after following tshirtbooths tutorial. Just wanted to say thanks!