How Do I Create A Basic Attack?

FallingBoxStudios

Hi,
What I'm trying to create is a basic attack, but I don't want to create an animation of my character swinging a sword (or something like that…), I'll try to explain better, basically my character is just a box, it has no face or anything, its just a coloured box, and I would like to make him have a power attack, I have created an animation of the weapon swinging, basically what I'm trying to say is I want to have the weapon actor hidden behind my character, so the weapon actor will follow my character, and when a button is pressed, the attack animation plays, I'm pretty bad at explaining things… I hope it was clear enough, thanks.

KevinCross

Keep your weapon actor off screen until a certain key/button is pressed. When that button or key is pressed, move the weapon to where the character is, run any animation on the weapon actor, check for any collissions, and then when the power attack has finished move it back off the screen i.e. x = -100 and y = -100.

Or just spawn the weapon actor in front of your character, run any animation, check for collisions and then destroy it.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

I've been following these threads from falling box. Who's building this game him or Kevin cross? lol

KevinCross

If I can't build my own games then I might as well help others build theirs.

FallingBoxStudios

@FryingBaconStudios

I've been following these threads from falling box. Who's building this game him or Kevin cross? lol

Lol ) I'm just really new to GameSalad,
@KevinCross Has been a big help

FallingBoxStudios

@KevinCross

Keep your weapon actor off screen until a certain key/button is pressed. When that button or key is pressed, move the weapon to where the character is, run any animation on the weapon actor, check for any collissions, and then when the power attack has finished move it back off the screen i.e. x = -100 and y = -100.
Or just spawn the weapon actor in front of your character, run any animation, check for collisions and then destroy it.

But my character jumps and walks all around the screen, so I need the weapon actor to actually follow the main actor, does this method do that?

KevinCross

If you spawn it each time you can constrain it to the characters position plus any offset to get the weapon to sit where you want.

FallingBoxStudios

@KevinCross Okay Thanks, but how do I constrain the weapon actor to the main actor?

-Timo-

make 2 integers (lets say we call it playerx and playery) go into the player/main actor on constrain attribute game.playerx to self.position.x
and constrain attribute game.playery to self.position.y

go into the weapon and
constrain attribute self.position.x to game.playerx
and contrain attribute self, position.y to game.playery

now the weapon stays in the middle of the player.
if you want it to be a little to the right then
constrain attribute self.position.x to game.playerx+10 (or something)

FallingBoxStudios

@timolapre1998 I tried, and it did not work

KevinCross

Did you set up two game attributes called playerX and playerY and constrain the players x and y position to those two attributes? What @timolapre1998 says is correct and is something I've done myself in the past.