Just problems in general :?

chosenonestudios

ok basically, I'm just doing a add on for my game....

Explaining:

the main character goes back and forth across the screen (to dodge stuff) I added a button to "shoot stuff"

Code:

button, when button is pushed, change game.firebutton to 1 when button is released change game.firebutton to 0

main actor, (the one that moves back and forth) constrain attribute game.maincharacter x to self.position x (same for y value)

spawner, when game.firebutton = 1, spawn actor (missile),

spawner, (still) constrain attribute self.position x to game.maincharacter x (same for y)

missile, move 90 degress at (300 speed)

Problems: sometimes the button works sometimes it doesn't (i have the missile actor on screen and it works, but if you barely take it off, it'll stop (and even when it kinda works, it doesn't work very well haha) )

Conclusion: If you see some problems in this or more efficient ways to do it please let me know, or if its just in general wrong, please show me how to do it! Thanks in advance:)

chosenonestudios

bump

design219

I had a similar thing going on with my game Food Fight!. I have an actor that jumps and when you push a button, he throws (spawns) a pot. I think I may have tried what you did, and had similar problems (it's been so long now, I don't remember exactly) but what I ended up with is using a timer to change the "throw" attribute back to false.

So basically: push button, changes attribute "throw" to true. In the actor: if attribute "throw" is true, spawn actor Pot. That same rule has a timer that says After .1 second change "throw" to false.

Hope that helps.

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Tickle Stones http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tickle-stones/id363484260?mt=8
Food Fight! (free) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/food-fight/id352646643?mt=8

design219

By the way, there have been some good threads recently on useing "game time" instead of timers to improve performance. Here is one of them:

http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=4575#post-28021

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Tickle Stones http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tickle-stones/id363484260?mt=8
Food Fight! (free) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/food-fight/id352646643?mt=8

chosenonestudios

thanks I'll check that out:) on a side note, your little things that shows your games, do you have it setup to auto do that, every time you post or do you just paste it in? if auto post how so?

design219

I wish this forum offered signatures, but since it doesn't, I just keep that in a little text file and copy and paste. When I feel like it. I saw someone else doing it and thought... why not.

chosenonestudios

yeah that would be great so every time somebody posts you could see there games, projects etc. I guess we can add that to our every growing list of features we need haha