best way to Pause an Actor?

Kangavark

sorry if there is an obvious solution that I'm just not seeing, but here's the situation:

There is a rotating and moving actor on the scene that I would like to pause (freeze) upon touch (and unfreeze when touched again). How can I accomplish this? I thought I had to make a pause Attribute (real) that would change to "1" upon touch--based on a Rule. Unfortunately, this isn't working.

I have a follow up question, but I'll wait to see if this one can be answered first.

thanks in advance.

Goodnight Games

Find his rotation attribute in self then keep track of it in an attribute. Once that's done make a rule that says on press change his rotation to that attribute and if you have something that's making it rotate wrap a rule around that with a boolean so you can turn it on and off on press.

Kangavark

update: I managed to get the actor to pause (freeze) by tweaking T-Shirt Booth's tutorial on constraining an actor without using Gamesalad's Pause action. But now I'm trying to Unpause the actor by touching it, but I'm not sure how I go about it.

ironDan

Make a global Index attribute called pause. Then in the actor that you touch to pause
make a rule that says

When touch is pressed change attribute game.pause to (game.pause+1)%2

All this does is say when the actor is touched and game.pause is 0 it changes to 1 and when game.pause is 1 it changes to 0

Then in your actor just use game.pause = 0 to fire the rules you made to stop your actor and game.pause = 1 to set them back in motion

Good luck
Dan

Kangavark

thanks Dan. I don't know what I'm doing wrong...I'm still not able to unpause my actors...

Kangavark

Make a global Index attribute called pause. Then in the actor that you touch to pause
make a rule that says

When touch is pressed change attribute game.pause to (game.pause+1)%2

All this does is say when the actor is touched and game.pause is 0 it changes to 1 and when game.pause is 1 it changes to 0

Then in your actor just use game.pause = 0 to fire the rules you made to stop your actor and game.pause = 1 to set them back in motion

Good luck
Dan

I got this to work, but this ends up pausing and unpausing ALL of my moving actors. I need something that will pause ONLY the actor that's touched.

anybody?

MotherHoose

@Kangavark … for actions/events that only affect the individual actor
…add the attributes to control them to that actor

follow @ironDan … great help! … but make it self.pause not game.pause

MH