Actor movement and camera control issues.

WalkingkoanWalkingkoan Member Posts: 10
in Working with GS (Mac)
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to do two things:
1) Have my main character run forward at the beginning of the level (endless runner style) but to stop and leap back (go back a little) once he collides with an enemy.
2) Make the camera follow the character but keeping him in a fixed position the left corner at all times. Any way to move the tracking area of the camera to the desired position?

I'm very new at Gamesalad so I'll need a step by step guide if at all possible. And I've read that I should not use the move behavior for moving my character but I can't find any tutorial on how to use the interpolate behavior for this particular movement pattern (mostly "move to" tutorials out there...)...any good tutorial for this case?
I've also read an post about the second problem (camera tracking) but could not understand how they did it but the solution involved unlocking the actor (how do you do that anyway) which is not recommended in many other posts. Any other solutions?
I know this must be quite easy but I just could not find anything related to it here...

Thanks in advance!

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  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    The attached files might be useful, we also have loads of templates that will help over at DBA and also loads of free stuff in our resource centre.

    Darren.
  • WalkingkoanWalkingkoan Member Posts: 10
    The CameraLeft template was just what I wanted for the camera movement! Thanks! But I'm not being able to reproduce it in my game. I think the problem is in the "Controller" unlocked actor's expression "scene.Background.Hero.Position.X -100". Could you break it down for me?
    I assume "scene" is the scene were the actor is currently placed but what about "Background" I couldn't find anything named Background (there were "Backgrounds" actors but they have an "s" at the end). Also I've named my character "Hero" to correspond to the "Hero" in the expression as well and the rest should be the same but the camera still does not move. What am I doing wrong?
    And about my first issue do you have any suggestions?

    Thanks again!

    Daniel

  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    You need to unlock the actor and go into scene/layers or you could simply make a game attribute real and then constrain that to the heros x position in your hero actor.

    Background is the name of your layer so yours might be different.

    Darren.
  • WalkingkoanWalkingkoan Member Posts: 10
    Thanks a lot, It's working now!
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