Character Selection

Snoop1000

I'm working on a fighting game that's based on character selection and need a way to change the character you play as. What's the best way to be able to select an actor? Is it possible to change the actor's attributes as well, or can you only change the image?

UtopianGames

You could make a game.integer and set it to 1 then if you select the 3rd character change the game.integer to 3 then you can either change the images based on the integer or make all the characters as separate actors and simply do a rule to destroy them if the game integer doesn't match a self integer.

MentalDonkeyGames

Check out the "Airship Defender" game template that comes with GS. There´s one way of doing a character selection.

KillerPenguinStudios

Hello @Snoop1000,

There are a zillion tutorials and templates on how to accomplish this but I will give you the basic.

I would create a game integer attribute and call it something like; "Which_Character_Am_I"

In your character actor, you can say;

• When game.Which_Character_Am_I = 1; change image to (choose the desired image)

• When game.Which_Character_Am_I = 2; change image to (choose the desired image)

and so on for how ever many characters you have.

(For the animations, you can have a rule that says;

• When game.Which_Character_Am_I = 1; (have all of character 1's animations)

• When game.Which_Character_Am_I = 2; (have all of character 2's animations)

and so on for how ever many characters you have.

~NEXT~

This all depends on how you are having the player pick his character. But essentially you would have this;

In the first character image in the character select section, say;

• When touch is pressed; change attribute game.Which_Character_Am_I; to 1

In the second character image in the character select section, say;

• When touch is pressed; change attribute game.Which_Character_Am_I; to 2

and so on for how ever many characters you have.

Hope that helps!

robertkdale

TABLES. You can store character specific attributes inside the tables that are trigger by an event in game. I would store global boolean as well as Integer attributes.

For example If character X is chosen change Char1 to true.

If Char1 = true than load data from table X row one column 1,2).

Also if Char1 is true than you can have your main character actor follow a specific set of rules based off of the Global attribute Char1 and call on special events triggered by attributes stored inside a table.

You may also what to trigger a spawned actor as well.

MentalDonkeyGames

@robertkdale that's basically the way it's done in the airship defender template.

robertkdale

@NipaDidlt Thanks for letting me know! I will check it out.

Just checked it out and it is a really good template. The coding techniques used are very useful. I have a few games that I am woking on now that use some similar techniques. GREAT TEMPLATE!

Snoop1000

Thanks for all the help!