Print the behaviors?

italianmaxxitalianmaxx Member Posts: 40
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
I'm atempting at my 1st game (a top down car race) and Working with GS is really a pain. Every 5 mins I need to save and restart, because GS start to sleep and the rainbow little ball starts to roll... and this is most true when I start to check actors and behaviors here and there in several scenes.

Is it possible to print the behaviors for an actor or for an istance, to have the CODE (rules, attributes changing, timers and so on) printed and formatted and easily readable?!?

(my 15' macbook pro suffers with its low resolution, GS needs a larger imac lcd, I guess)

Comments

  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    no..don't think so...it makes understanding undocumented projects very hard once they get deep as it is impossible to string the logic together....you can't even display all the code let alone print it.
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    shift+alt+4

    You can take screenshots and then paste them together in a graphics program.
  • italianmaxxitalianmaxx Member Posts: 40
    yes photics, yours is the right solution: I tried this just a few second ago:

    1) launch TEXTEDIT (and GS, of course...)
    2) look at the behaviors u need to print
    3) in textedit rightclick and chose 'capture screen' (or something similar, the last menu item)
    4) select the screen area u want to capture
    5) textedit automatically copy the area in its document
    6) go on and repeat until you've copied all the rules for the actor/instance
    7) in textedit print it in pdf or print on paper

    really easy and useful to study the logic between 2 or more actors! (just a little bit boring to capture 10-15 screens for complex actors, but this depends on your screen)
    try this and let me know

    this could also be a very good method to spread code and tricks around!
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    italianmaxx said:
    yes photics, yours is the right solution

    Page 26 of my GameSalad textbook may also be of help to GameSalad developers with low-resolution monitors... coming soon! :)
  • italianmaxxitalianmaxx Member Posts: 40
    @photics: I'm waiting for the book since the announcement... summer is a good season to gamesaladize something... now quit the forum and go back writing the book!
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