problem with 'Change Attribute'

vipremju

Hi,
I have 2 copies of an actor (A) than change an scene attribute when overlaps o collide with other actor (B).
Then, the actor B change their size with the scene attribute asigned in the other step, but only ocurrs when overlaps with the first actor, but no with the other. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Bellow

dont use copy actor. Create new one.

vipremju

I've created a new actor, and same problem. I dont understand why only function the first time overlaps the actors.
And also, why create a new actor? The 2 actors A must have the same attibutes and rules.

Bellow

can you put screenshot pls

tatiang

It sounds like you made a copy of your actor and named it the exact same name and expected the collision rule to work with both copies. This won't work because actors are referenced by xml id numbers that are unique. You would need two separate collision rules, one for each copy of the actor.

But that's a really bad way to program. Instead, either spawn an actor each time you need a new copy or just option-drag the actor on the scene to create an exact copy that will function with a single collision rule.

vipremju

First of all, I am a newbie with Gamesalad. Perhaps I have a wrong concept of programing with this program.
I've two actor instances with different names and with their own collision rules.
Maybe I am starting wrong.
All I want is: whenever an instance of actor A is placed on top of actor B, the latter increases slightly in size. How would you do you?

tatiang

I was working on a demo for you but got busy. Let me see if I can finish it today.

tatiang

Wait, maybe I'm overthinking this. Is this what you're trying to do? Drag the blue squares onto the white square.

myke66

Use two different actors, set actor 1 to a tag.

Have a collision rule on the one you want to get bigger read "When collide with tag (actor 1) then Timer[For 1s] (scale=1). This will cause the second actor to increase in size when colliding.

Will actor 1 stay on top of actor 2? if so you may need to have some type of "on/off" rule setup so it doesnt keep increasing insize. Or turn the time to run to completion.

vipremju

Thanks for all. I will try your ideas in my project.