Making a sword
Naser55555
Member Posts: 8
Hey there! it seems the only attack i can give my ship is shooting... i wanna give the side of it like a energy sword or something to kill the stuff to low for me to shoot i can make an actor with sword animation spawn on the side of my ship to kill my target but even if i tell it to spawn when "U"key is down and destroy the sword actor when "U"key is up... it never will destroy it so that methods out because i don't want an actor setting in my stage for ever that destroys everything without me even trying and i don't want it to just be like shooting it off into space and out of my screen... and using the timer to destroy the actor after 1sec is way to slow... and 0 is to fast... it would really help if i could set it to spawn on the side of my ship and move with my ship as long as i hold down the "U" key and destroy it as soon as i let up on the "U" key then i could put what ever animation i wanted on loop until i let up on the "U" key making it look like a sword or wave of energy coming off my ship only so far out destroying anything it touches without being stuck with a lot of crap that messes up my game... is there a way to make it so actors spawn off of other actors as i hold an assigned button and de spawn when i release it? oh and i need the actor to stay clinging to my ship until it de spawns going where i go only... i know I've typed a lot but I've looked all through GameSalad and i can't figure this out... any helpful info will be much appreciated! ty:)
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Welcome to the forums. One thing that will make it more likely for people to help you is to break up that wall of text with some spacing and sentences.
You posted in the "Help Wanted" PAID section... are you looking for paid help or just advice? If the latter, please specify Mac or PC and I will move this to the appropriate subforum.
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just advice and I'm on a mac... side make it all prettier if i new how but that was a class i did not pay attention to in school now i wish i had but whats done is done... and i did not know where to put it due to me being new to this forums sorry...
You might consider having someone proof read your post if possible* (also, you can edit posts for up to 24 hours). I honestly didn't read it all because I struggled through it and it had no "white space." How you communicate here is going to affect whether or not people help you. You currently have 37 views and no comments (besides mine). Anyway, sorry to preach and good luck with getting some advice.
*And if not, then keep things really short: "How do I spawn an actor in a random location?" etc.
Not a problem. I've moved it to "Working with GS (Mac)" which is where general questions about using GameSalad should go.
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look dude idc who you are! Ether answer my questions or don't! idc just don't troll me on how i get my point across to ppl!... ppl will look at what I've asked about and i will or won't get a response any time soon i don't need you stating the obvious about my post! i was very humble and nice about it the first time but i don't want you to think I'm ok with it so here is me saying if you don't wanna help just don't bother me with your feed back i don't need it!... ty for putting my post where it goes but your services are obviously no longer required! ty but no ty!
Point taken. I can see how what I wrote might be upsetting. And you're right, people are either going to answer or not.
I'm a moderator here so I tend to pay more attention to how things are communicated especially by new members.
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Sorry i guess i was just in a bad mood... I'm just used to dealing with trolls on games like World of Warcraft and all... so i get upset about it pretty easy... once again sorry...
I know you don't want to hear it, so I'll keep it short, but I have to agree with @tatiang, i read the first couple of hundred words of your OP but gave up after that.
@Naser55555 Thanks for saying so. You'll find that the community here is generally very helpful and respectful.
I took another go at your post and it seems you're wanting to spawn a weapon that stays near your ship while a key is held down and then disappears when the key is released. Is that right?
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This is not specifically to do with this post but I must say a huge thanks to posters like @tatiang and others for their advice & help at no cost to so many of us out there. People like you make these forums so useful.
Thanks for saying so, @McSparkles! I see it as paying it forward... I received and continue to receive a lot of help from others here. It's how I learned to do so much with GameSalad!
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yes thats exactly what i need so far my efforts have ben in vain
ty for looking it over again. even after everything...
Here's a demo. Hold the space bar to activate the energy sword.
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I don't know what i could be doing wrong but i even put your demo and my game side by side in windowed mode to be sure everything was the same... but i can't seem to get it to work for me but your demo works great. ty for that btw! now i know it can be done even if I'm still not sure as to the how. as of yet...
any how i better get some sleep I've ben trying to figure this out most the night...
Are you able to say in what way it doesn't work, for someone trying to help with an issue 'doesn't work' is not much use, can you say what doesn't work, does the sword come out but not go back in, does it simply never appear, does it appear but in the wrong place . . . etc etc.