Best way to check for any moving actors?

jon2s

There are a number of different actors on the screen and I want to make sure that none of them are moving before continuing. I have it working fairly well with timers on each actor that checks it's movement and if it is not moving set a game variable to 0, if it is moving set it to 1. This works most of the time.

Curious if anyone has any ideas.

chosenonestudios

i havnt used game salad viewer but I think you might be able to check it with that

rebump

Are you setting that game variable to its current value plus 1 if an actor is moving? And its current value minus 1 if it is not? Then you just wait until it's equal to 0 before moving on...

You may want to allow for a small range of movement to consider it not moving as sometimes the actors jitter a bit. There are a few ways to handle this. Been posted about before.

scitunes

@jon2s - Are you talking about some sort of puzzle game in which checking for no movement is involved in completing the task and finishing the level?

I think I would just use a rule

When self.linear.X = 0 AND
self.linear.Y = 0

do whatever

or you may want to account for "unnoticeable" movements and use <.1 or something

jon2s

Think along the lines of red block remover. (No, I'm not copying your game tshirt:) )

In that game it checks to see if all the red blocks are removed and none of the yellow blocks have left the screen and are not moving.