newby question

bent73

I'm sorry for asking, but i'm totally new with gamesalad program and forum... I try to search but couldnt find...

Trying simple thing to get use to the program...
I just cannot make move a actors (up-dwn-right-left), i verify everything and compared with the Basic Shootem Up...found no error...
got constrain attribute X and Y -» game.PlayerX to self.position.x
got Key rule with direction and speed 300
even try the self.position.x < 440 (for the right)

there's really something i mist.....

-Timo-

welcome
do you mean when you touch the actor 'left' (or the arrow on the keyboard) he moves to the left?
then just make a rule and say
when touch is pressed or left arrow key is pressed change self.left (<- is an attribute) to true
otherwise
change self.left to false

if self.left is true
do
move left

if this is not what you mean try to explain better please
hope this helped
good luck

-Timo-

bent73

thank's timolapre for your quick answer! really appreciated!!!
i start from scratch to learn the program, and i use the Basic ShootEm Up for reference..
I use the Rule : When All of the ...receive a key press: right is:down ... Do move direction:0 speed:300 relative to actor in additive way
did this for all direction has set in the Basic Shootem
with
constrain: game.PlayerX to self.position.x
constrain: game.PlayerY to self.position.Y

then i run the program, but the ship doesnt want to move...

-Timo-

what do you exactly want?
why do you use
constrain: game.PlayerX to self.position.x
constrain: game.PlayerY to self.position.Y
can you try to explain better? ^^

bent73

I just want to make the ship move left, right, up, down in the scene like in the Shooting game....
i put the constrain cause it was inside the actors backstage with the moving rules....I follow the explaination in the manual...
Do you have another way (better) to make move a actors in the scene?

mesaticus

Check out this guys stuff. http://www.jamie-cross.net/?page_id=48 Learned a lot from his movement tutorials.

jamie_c

Thanks for the mention mesaticus, I do have a growing number of step by step tutorials at my site linked in my signature below. @bent73, they are good for an introduction to GS.

bent73

thank's great place !!!!
I wonder if i have a bug in my program, cause i follow step by step recipe 001, and when i push preview the screen is black empty.... even if i have the actor and platform on the screen in the program ...

bent73

YUP! got crash problem... the program is always closing by windows ....

bent73

dont understand, i reinstall the program and still have a bug...
when i preview i have nothing in the preview screen even if i have some actors in the screens....

jamie_c

I think the windows version has an issue with decimal numbers, not sure if that is your problem or not but check the X and Y locations of your actors and make them all whole numbers and see if that helps.

bent73

i just made a total clean up of my computer , and now it works better...

bent73

strange... i just change the color and now i lost everything again in the preview...

-Timo-

your probably working on a windows... you can't use colors in windows except for FULL red, green, blue, black and white (you can't 'mix' them) you also cant use decimals on windows

bent73

bad bug.... Well thank you Timo !!!! I'm looking to maybe buy a used Mac....
since i cannot fully test the program, I wonder if the gamesalad and gamesalad pro worth it.....

bent73

i see IOs viewer and Android viewer.... what is they use?

bent73

?????
i dont know why i did in my system, but everything "seam" to be back to normal ...
DOH !!!!!

bent73

stuck again... this time i notice that i try the recipe 002, so i put new project on Ipad Landscape with resolution independence , got bug with the position in the preview, so i create a new project with iphone landscape, and now i can't put a actors in the scene....
the bug is probably with the option in the new project....

-Timo-

thats because of the decimal bug, when you cant see it in preview then there is probably something behind the decimal. if you delete everything after the decimal then you should see it in preview.
and when you cant put actors in the scene then you did put actors in the scene but the position changed. if you look in the upper right corner there you can see his position. its probably higher then 1000, so delete the last number and you can see him

hope this helped
good luck

-Timo-