Pushing a button to make an actor move - Question

RastaRise

i have four arrow left, right, up, and down. How do i make the buttons move the actor? Ex. when left arrow is touched the actor moves left.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Jon

JamesZeppelin

Attributes

Go through some of the tutorials.

The concept is a pain to get but it is really central to GS.

Its basically how actors speak to each other through a middleman

Button changes attribute > actor reads change in attribute.

There are plenty of tutorials on how to do it. THere is a jumping demo on my wall too that has it.

Weswog

Here is a video tutorial on how to do that (I made this)


Cheers, Weswog

RastaRise

Thanks man just what i needed!

expired_012

Your trying to trigger an actor using another actor.

Make 4 integer attributes: left, right, up, down

Make the following rule in your left arrow:

When touch is pressed, change attribute (left) to 1
Otherwise, change attribute (left) to 0

Now go into the actor that you want to move and give it the following rule:

When attribute (left) is 1:

Move actor (direction left)

Otherwise

Change attribute (left) to 0

Do this for the other 3 arrows with the attributes right, up, and down and give the moving actor 3 new rules with the movements going right, up, and down

Hope this helped