Moveable, then not...

ells1231

Is there a way to change whether an object is moveable or not during play?
e.g. The user moves a platform into place(and so has to be moveable) and then when you hit play, it is no longer moveable so other actors can collide with it and it stays still.

Thanks in advance,

2D-Sprite-Box

Boolean attribute moveable, add rule to play button, when mouse inside and down (or touch pressed) change moveable to false, in the platform, rule when attribute moveable is false change self physics movable false, otherwise self physics movable true

How does that work

BarkBarkCo

I believe `Moveable` cannot be changed at runtime.

ells1231

2D-Sprite-Box said:
Boolean attribute moveable, add rule to play button, when mouse inside and down (or touch pressed) change moveable to false, in the platform, rule when attribute moveable is false change self physics movable false, otherwise self physics movable true

How does that work

Thank you so much!!! Worked a treat!!

2D-Sprite-Box

Does what you need?

BarkBarkCo

It shouldn't... ;-)

http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=7930
http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=4920

2D-Sprite-Box

barkbark00 said:
I believe `Moveable` cannot be changed at runtime.

I thought the same thing, if that doesn't work, I'd go with constrain the position when movable is false

ells1231

I thought it worked, but it dosent oh well...

Thanks for the help anyway.

ells1231

My games crashed now time for a restart. I don't think it liked me changing moveable to true / false.

firemaplegames

You cannot change any of the Physics properties of an Actor at runtime...

ells1231

oh... thats annoying, Im sure I will find a way around it.

ells1231

Well I am off to bed. thanks for the help everyone.

2D-Sprite-Box

Go with constraining the position of the platform when movable is false

gyroscope

There's a workaround I've thought of; bit clumsy maybe, but it should work; :

Boolean attribute set to false all the time the bridge is being moved into place; when it needs to be immovable, set the attribute to true; when true, spawn an 8 x 8 pixel actor twice, set to immovable, either end of the bridge. Maybe work out? Don't know, just a thought...

:-)

edit: no, that wouldn't work on second thoughts; it'd need collision fro the bridge not to be "got at"...ah well, I tried.

gyroscope

Hang on, when the boolean is true, i.e the bridge is in place, destroy it and replace it with an exact dupicate image - different actor - spawned in the same place, which is not moveable. That should do it.

:-)