Stop Start

peakprod

Hi, I have an actor moving on a course that changes direction 3 times with two rotations at direction change .Im trying to simply stop and start the actor anywhere along route with a touch inside. I can stop the actor with a touch inside, but the actor will not start with another touch inside (boolian will not go to true),

All directions rules have -
Rule speed1=true

actor stops ok with rule-
speed1=true,
actor touch inside
.
But then; rule -
speed1=false,
actor speedX = 0,
actor touch 'inside'
will not Change Attribute speed1 to true. to restart the actor.
Help would be appreciated

chrisal

Try to contrain attribute instead

Actor receives touch inside

Contrain attribute motion x 0 and motion y 0

peakprod

Hi Chrisal, thanks for prompt reply, but I dont understand, If I use Contrain surely I would still have to have a boolian 'speed1' to hold the constrain and then release it with another touch? The problem I thought was that the second touch was ineffective for some reason, but I am inexperienced with this software.

chrisal

Ok sorry mis understood I think. Are you using mouse touch attribute???

peakprod

yes. I treid mouse touch for first change and mouse click for second but no change, second one does not seem to work. thanks

chrisal

I have not played with this feature myself so you may need to look on the wiki or on the forums but in the actors attributes you have touch 1-4 or something like that, if I remember rightly that how you can do what your trying to do. By using touch up inside twice I think it confuses your game.

peakprod

Thanks Chrisal, I have looked at multi touch, but there is so little written about it that I cannot get my head around it. It seem s that each touch keeps an X and Y ref. But how you use it or reset it is a mystery.