How do I switch a bouncing ball actor when it collides with another actor?

Guns10

I have a platform, a red ball and a yellow ball. The yellow ball bounces off the platform. What I need is to have the yellow ball switch to the red ball when it comes into contact with the floor but still maintain all of its attributes so its still bouncing. Been looking for a solution but can't find it. Please help. Thanks in advance.

tatiang

Can you just change the actor's color or self.Image and have rules based on the value of that?

Guns10

I'm afraid they have to be separate objects. Once the ball changes to a different actor, that actor has a different set of rules. thanks

tatiang

@Guns10 said:
I'm afraid they have to be separate objects. Once the ball changes to a different actor, that actor has a different set of rules. thanks

Those aren't mutually exclusive. A single actor can have different sets of rules based on an attribute value.

Guns10

Thanks Tatiang. I'll give it a shot

tatiang

Another option is to change two game attributes (e.g. game.velocityX and game.velocityY) to the yellow ball actor's self.linear velocity.x and y, then spawn the red actor and destroy the yellow actor and then in the red actor, change its velocity x and y to game.velocityX and Y.

Guns10

That sound like what I'm looking for. Many thanks. Will try it out tomorrow night after I'm rested!