If touch is pressed change self.physics.movable to true??? [Problem]

EIGHTHSIN

Hey Forum,

I am having some difficulties, with something I thought would have been fairly straight forward...

I have an actor that has its self.physics.movable attribute set to false. I would like to enable this on touch, so I have,

If touch is pressed, change self.physics.movable to true

and another rule that says,

If self.physics.movable is true accelerate 270degrees relative to scene by a magnitude of 1000

This does not seem to work, is this a problem with gamesalad or is this action not possible?

Thanks,

EI8HTHSIN

expired_012

You can't change the self.movable attribute while the game is running as far as I know. Ex. If you have self.physics.movable set to false it will stay that way even if you tell it to turn true when touched.

tenrdrmer

Yeah basically all the physics attributes cannot be changed at runtime.

Cheers

guilleface

you do can but nothing will happened, i don't know why game salad allow you to change movable if it won't work, i waste many hours trying to find out why my actor was not moving, i had my actor to display movable, so in the beginning was displaying False, so i added a rule, when touch change self.movable to true, and the display attribute changed to True.

tatiang

@guilleface, I'm sorry you found it a frustrating experience and didn't realize that that attribute couldn't be changed during runtime.

You can create the same conditions by creating a boolean (e.g. self.canMove) and then changing the value when needed and also creating a rule that checks the value of the boolean to allow/disallow movement.

EIGHTHSIN

Cheers for the swift reply guys, it's a shame you cannot do this action, but like @tatiang mentioned there are ways around this, however they often involve constrain attributes etc, which are performance taxing...

Thanks once again and happy apping!

EI8HTHSIN