Swipe to Move an Actor Help

mfieldgames

I followed the tutorial on how to set up swipe controls to move an actor Left, Right, Up, Down and got it to work, but there is something more that I want set up that I don't know how to do. The current set up allows me to freely change directions every time I swipe in a new direction, so if I am moving down I can swipe again and change directions before ever reaching the boundaries of the bottom screen. For the game I am making, I want to hinder that free-movement by only allowing the player to move in a new direction after the actor has finished moving in the first direction chosen, by colliding with a wall or object. For instance, I slide to move a box down and it slides across the floor (as if on ice) until it hits a wall and stops. Now that it has stopped, I can choose a new direction to send it sliding in, rather than being able to change directions mid-slide like it is set up now. Any help in setting up this control system will be greatly appreciated!

For reference, here is that tutorial:

allc1865

Is this your question: how to make a character stop sliding when you move him right or left and then let go of that control?

allc1865

Oh I see. You want to know how to stop the sliding movement when you stop swiping left or right?

mfieldgames

Not quite. Sorry this is difficult to explain how this works. The way the controls are set up now from that tutorial, I can slide the mouse in different directions to keep changing to a different direction, so I can just dodge around all the obstacles. I want there to be a rule that makes it so once a player slides their finger to move in a direction, they can't slide in a new direction to move until the first direction they chose has finished executing.

By finished executing, I mean the actor (in this case, a box sliding on ice) slides across the screen until it collides with a wall or another box, thus stopping it. Now that it has stopped moving, the player may once again choose a direction to slide the box in. The point is to create puzzles that require a specific path the player must slide the box in, in order to reach a goal.

With the current controls, I can bypass this puzzle path by spam-sliding the mouse to slide straight to the goal, without ever having to stop moving or collide with a wall or other obstacle. This is obviously game breaking. I hope this explanation makes more sense, and thanks again for any help!

tatiang

Sounds like you just need a boolean called game.AllowSwipe that starts out true and gets set to false once a swipe is detected and then set to true once a collision occurs. Add the condition When attribute game.AllowSwipe = true to your swipe detection rule.

hairykiwis

@allc1865 said:
Is this your question: how to make a character stop sliding when you move him right or left and then let go of that control?

any way to do this ? my actor keeps sliding till I tap again to stop it.