Touching screen with keyboard

andrewhnovak@gmail.com

Hi,
I'm trying to make a game trailer, but I don't want the mouse to show up in the video with my screen recording software so I want to add a keyboard key as input for touching the screen so that the mouse won't been visible when recording. Can someone walk me through how to do this?
Thanks

tatiang

Are you needing to simulate touching the screen in certain areas, on specific actors, or just something along the line of When Mouse button is Down?

You can add a condition to your existing rule that says When actor receives event key [space], ... do whatever it normally does when clicked.

Just make sure to select ANY conditions are valid instead of ALL conditions are valid.

If you purchase a good screen recorder such as ScreenFlow, you can choose to hide the mouse cursor.

andrewhnovak@gmail.com

I thought I understood, but when I hit the space bar in my endless runner the character doesn't go up like it should. Can you please tell me what I did wrong. Also I would use screenflow, but it's only for mac and I'm running windows.

tatiang

You posted in the Mac subforum. I'll move it to Windows/PC.

tatiang

The rule in your screenshot says If space key is down, do something but I can't tell what it is because that portion of the rule is hidden. Try adding a Log Debugging Statement to see if that rule is actually triggering when you either click the mouse or press the space key.

You're also constraining the actor's x and y positions to game attributes which I find strange (usually you constrain the game attributes to the actor's self x and y positions) but then I don't know how you have it all set up.

andrewhnovak@gmail.com

Actually I found a good software for windows to record my trailer that hides the cursor. It's called bandicam. Thanks for the help though.

tatiang

You're welcome!

lycettebros

Touching the screen with a keyboard is kinda weird!