Referencing other actor's attributes

henshouse

I just joined, and immediately followed the Pong tutorial in the wiki. I got it all working fine, but wanted to make it 1 player, rather than 2. So I tried adding my own AI that basically just follows the Y position of the ball. I couldn't get this to work because when I wanted to check if the Y position was higher or lower than the paddle's Y position, I was only allowed to check game and self attributes, not other actor's attributes.
Thanks for your time

Ruslan21

you cant check other actors attributes ,\. Only self or game

Hope thats helps

henshouse

So, is there any way to do what I am trying to do?

jstrahan

Make a game attribute of real type and call it bally
Inside ball actor constrain bally to self.position.y
Inside paddle actor constrain self.position.y to bally

Ruslan21

yes . you can send project to me ill take a look.

shakirovruslan2008@gmail.com

gyroscope

henshouse said:
...I was only allowed to check game and self attributes, not other actor's attributes.

Hi henshouse, welcome to the Forum! You can change any other actor's attributes, providing this is done through an instance of an actor (one on screen) rather than its Prototype. (This is the one in the Inspector). Via a Prototype Rules, you can only change self and game attributes.

Double click the instance of an actor – one of them on screen – then unlock the Rules section if it's not already. Then within its Rules, you can get to any other actor's attributes by the following method:

Click the three dots to get the attribute browser, or the "e" to get the expression editor. In either one, click Current Scene > layers > Background > then you'll find a list of all the actors in the scene to choose, then choose its particular attribute to change/modify.

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RH

@ gyroscope

Wow. How did i not know this. I thought I had GS sussed, geeez, thanks!

gyroscope

Glad it helped out, RH! :-)

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Zilla

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