How Can i Spawn and drag actors into scene?

DarkUndeadSpawn

Hello,
I would like to ask?

How Can i Spawn a actor then drag it anywhere i want?

Then Highlight the actor when it becomes selected. And Everytime its selected i press another button to rotate that actor in 90 degree angle. And to also have a spawn limit of how much you want to spawn.. Im on the windows version of gamesalad so i can't download any type of templates for gamesalad if it was made on the mac version. I also want it to display the number of items you have to spawn..

I know its such a rookie question to ask.

Sincerly,
DarkUndeadSpawn

gyroscope

Hi @DarkUndeadSpawn

I know its such a rookie question to ask.

No, it's not that..... because you didn't ask 1 question but 6… ;-)

I'll answer your first 2 questions, then other members will hopefully give you their time and experience to answer the others...

How Can i Spawn a actor then drag it anywhere i want?

Put the following in the rules of the actor you want spawned (the prototype in the Inspector):

When touch is pressed
Constrain attribute self.SpawnedActor.Position.X to game.Touch1.Position.X
Constrain attribute self.SpawnedActor.Position.Y to game.Touch1.Position.Y

To spawn the actor:

put in your button you want to press to Spawn:

When touch is pressed
Spawn Behaviour SpawnedActor ---- don't forget to set its initial position on-screen with its X and Y coordinates; plus set the position relative to scene.

Hope you get some help there; best of luck with learning GSC. :-)

The_Gamesalad_Guru

There are videos on YouTube just search for gamesalad cookbook on there and you will find a host of video that show you how to do just what you asked. Although the interface is different the techniques are the same.

gyroscope

I also asked.

How will i highlight the character when it is selected?

I got another question.

I know you also asked. I also mentioned about the problems of asking too many questions in the one thread! ;-)

Anyhow, to answer your "also asked" question, there's a couple of ways, depending on how you want the character highlighted.

If you want it highlighted by changing its colour completely, then add this into your When touched rules:

Change Attribute self.character.Color.R to ----
Change Attribute self.character.Color.G to ----
Change Attribute self.character.Color.B to ----

and add another rule:
When touch is released
Change Attribute self.character.Color.R to 1
Change Attribute self.character.Color.G to 1
Change Attribute self.character.Color.B to 1

---------

If you want an outline to the character, you'll have to make a separate image for this; then add into your When touched rule:

Change Image to CharacterOutlined

and another rule:
When touch is released
Change Image to Character ------ i.e your original image

hope that helps.

DarkUndeadSpawn

@gyroscope

Put the following in the rules of the actor you want spawned (the prototype in the Inspector):

When touch is pressed
Constrain attribute self.SpawnedActor.Position.X to game.Touch1.Position.X
Constrain attribute self.SpawnedActor.Position.Y to game.Touch1.Position.Y

To spawn the actor:

put in your button you want to press to Spawn:

When touch is pressed
Spawn Behaviour SpawnedActor ---- don't forget to set its initial position on-screen with its X and Y coordinates; plus set the position relative to scene.

Hope you get some help there; best of luck with learning GSC. :-)

I also asked.

How will i highlight the character when it is selected?

And also To rotate the actor whenever you choose by using another button when it is of course selected.

But the idea of knowing what you selected is have it highlighted when touched.


Sincerly
DarkUndeadSpawn

DarkUndeadSpawn

I got another question.

Well when i click on the actor to spawn it it wont spawn with the touch.pressed but when i press it when i use the game.touch.count = 1
It spawns the actor.

But when i click the actor that is spawned it just keeps spawning more actors into scene and i cant find a way to fix that?

Also i can either use the integer for self.spawnedactor or self.position.x i cannot seem to find self.spawnedactor.position.x on windows..

I have windows version btw

Thankyou

Sincerly,
DarkUndeadSpawn

DarkUndeadSpawn

Thanky

I also asked.

How will i highlight the character when it is selected?

I got another question.

I know you also asked. I also mentioned about the problems of asking too many questions in the one thread! ;-)

Anyhow, to answer your "also asked" question, there's a couple of ways, depending on how you want the character highlighted.

If you want it highlighted by changing its colour completely, then add this into your When touched rules:

Change Attribute self.character.Color.R to ----
Change Attribute self.character.Color.G to ----
Change Attribute self.character.Color.B to ----

and add another rule:
When touch is released
Change Attribute self.character.Color.R to 1
Change Attribute self.character.Color.G to 1
Change Attribute self.character.Color.B to 1

---------

If you want an outline to the character, you'll have to make a separate image for this; then add into your When touched rule:

Change Image to CharacterOutlined

and another rule:
When touch is released
Change Image to Character ------ i.e your original image

hope that helps.

Thankyou sir that really helped me out big time..

I have got to keep learning more and more i will get use to this and soon wont need to find any help..

Thankyou and have a nice day..

Sincerly,
DarkUndeadSpawn

gyroscope

Hiya @DarkUndeadSpawn

You're welcome. :-) Keep at it, it'll all drop into place for you, I'm certain. Hope I haven't put you off asking questions! :-) Fire away, (ideally one question/problem per thread ;-) ) and we'll all try to help out where we can.

I don't think we ever stop learning, especially as GSC evolves with new features, etc; anyhow, you have a good day too.

:-)