custom behaviors

shylevari

i made a nifty little pop-up animation behavior
trouble is.. when dropping a custom behavior on a new actor, the path "self.size..." retuns an "invalid path" error.
i thought, since it is "SELF." it won't do that.
is there a way around that ?

to be clear, thi si what i do to create a pop up animation:
i attach the self.size to a new attribute i created inside the actor and then i used interpolate to change self.size from small to large with a timer

shylevari

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Braydon_SFX

self.original_height and self.original_width are attributes you created within the actor, not one of the pre-existing self.Size attributes. Unfortunately, if you created a custom behavior that utilizes a created self attribute, it will not transfer over to different actors. This makes sense; since you created it in a separate actor, other actors will not contain this attribute. You will need to create the self attribute in all actors and then manually hook up that new attribute in the custom behavior. Simply naming the self attribute the same as the self attribute name in the custom behavior will not work. Sorry.

Socks

Adding to what @Braydon_SFX has already said . . . . (basically self.attributes don't transfer)

. . . you can use a pre-existing attribute (one that you might have no need for like Angular Drag or Max Speed) to store your values, using these for your values means you can copy code between actors

shylevari

@Socks said:
Adding to what Braydon_SFX has already said . . . . (basically self.attributes don't transfer)

. . . you can use a pre-existing attribute (one that you might have no need for like Angular Drag or Max Speed) to store your values, using these for your values means you can copy code between actors

GENIOUS!!

i ended up using self.graphics.tile_width/height because it was easier to remember that way which is which

btw, what r those used for anyways?

tatiang

Smart idea, @Socks.

btw, what r those used for anyways?

Angular Drag is a value that slows down a rotating actor. Drag slows down a moving actor. Max Speed is a value you can set and then enable to be a maximum velocity for an actor.

AlchimiaStudios

Another thing to note, is if you copy a "base actor" and paste it, it will retain those self.attributes and can have rules from other actors based off the same "base actor" with the same self attributes dragged into it without issue.

shylevari

@AlchimiaStudios‌ can you give a straight example? do you mean like a master actor that if he rotates, all others will rotate "related" to it?

@tatiang‌ and what are the tile_width/height are for?

tatiang

@shylevari said:
AlchimiaStudios‌ can you give a straight example? do you mean like a master actor that if he rotates, all others will rotate "related" to it?

No, it means that if you duplicate an actor, you can drag a custom behavior that was made in the original actor and it will work in the duplicate because the self (actor) attributes are already the same.

tatiang‌ and what are the tile_width/height are for?

Hmm, I don't use tiling much but I believe those determine the grid size for tiles that are stretched across a scene.