Tilt control indicator

Approw

Hi all,

Does anybody know how to create an indicator that shows how far you tilt the device left or right?
I want a bar with a dot in the middle so it can slide left and right to show the player how far they tilt the device.

Matthias

sparkania

Constrain scene real to the tilting actor's self.rotation then add an actor with a Display Text displaying the value of that scene real

Approw

@sparkania

Thanks for the response! but how do I connect those values to an indicator?

sparkania

create in the scene tab a 'real' called "Tilt"
on your tilting actor, add a block Constrain Attribute, Constrain: scene.tilt to: self.rotation
create a new actor called 'meter', add it to the scene and add a block Display Text and set the text to scene.tilt
this will produce a text number which shows what angle the tilted actor has tilted to.

that scene.tilt can also be used to adjust anything you need (like adjusting the x movement of a dot indicator)

Approw

@sparkania
Thats also a nice technique, but I want the indicator going left and righ in a bar

Socks

@sparkania

I think he wants to access the accelerometer.


@matthiasstoopman . . . an indicator that shows how far you tilt the device left or right?"

Which orientation would the device be in when you tilt it left and right (it matters) - you can obviously tilt an iPad left and right when it's held in portrait mode, when in landscape mode and when flat.

But essentially you just constrain the dot's X position to a multiple of one of the accelerometer values.

sparkania

I just realized that I misread your post.. tilt the 'Device' I mistook as an actor...

Approw

@Socks
Yes exactly! The device is in landscape mode left and right, do you have any code so the indicator can go left and right?

sparkania

I dont know enough about the output values associated with the accelerometers..

Approw

@sparkania okay thanks for your help anyway!

@Socks Its basicly just for the final touch of my new game, its almost finished. I think its a nice feature. I'm not begging for some code, but it wil save me a lot of time to figure out how that works.

Socks

@Socks
Yes exactly! The device is in landscape mode left and right, do you have any code so the indicator can go left and right?

Constrain the 'dot's' X position to: 512+(game.Accelerometer.Y *512)

That's basically it !

This is for an iPad (which GS sees as 1024 pixels wide) - you can adjust the values for whatever device you are using, if it's an iPhone5 (which GS sees as 568 pixels wide) then it would be:

Constrain the 'dot's' X position to: 284+(game.Accelerometer.Y *284) . . .

etc etc.


This will see your dot sweep from extreme left to extreme right, if you would rather limit the range a little - just lower the final figure (in red below).

512+(game.Accelerometer.Y *512.

Chakku

@matthiasstoopman

This should help you out- http://gshelper.com/gs/progress1.2.zip

Chakku

Approw

@Socks Thanks it works! altough it was a bit choppy how the dot moves from left to the right. This method works very smooth

Timer: every 0 seconds and do not check run to completion.
-Interpolate: Self,position.X to 512+(Game.Accelerometer.Y*300)


If the screen is rotated to the other side change it to this:
- Self,position.X to 512+(-Game.Accelerometer.Y*300)

just put a minus after the first bracked, the 300 is so the dot isnt moving extreme left and right.

Thanks Socks! ^:)^