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my drifting game

ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
edited November -1 in Announce Your Game!
i made a beta of my drifting game D.R.F.T, and the controls are pretty good on my part, but now i want to know, is there any way i can have the user change the color of the car, or pause the game, or start menu? also, tell me what you guys think.
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  • Geolion1Geolion1 Posts: 2Member
    How do we see the game?
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    go to the games, and click the recent ones
  • Unknown
    Cool game.

    Currently, the only way to pause the game is to click outside of the game area.
    For a start menu, you would need to make different scenes and use the Change Scene behavior.
    http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_to_gsc_change_scene_button

    As for changing the color of the car, I made a quick wiki and demo game using your car as the model.
    http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_to_gsc_change_image_color_midgame

    Hope that helped.
  • CodeMonkeyCodeMonkey Posts: 1,803Head Chef, Member, PRO
    Cool game.

    Currently, the only way to pause the game is to click outside of the game area.
    For a start menu, you would need to make different scenes and use the Change Scene behavior.
    http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_to_gsc_change_scene_button

    As for changing the color of the car, I made a quick wiki and demo game using your car as the model.
    http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_to_gsc_change_image_color_midgame

    Hope that helped.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    is it possible to drift over an actor (no collide) and get points for every second I'm on it?
  • CodeMonkeyCodeMonkey Posts: 1,803Head Chef, Member, PRO
    Technically yes, but its not perfect.
    One way you can do this is if your car's centerpoint (it's x/y coordinates) is within a range defined by the centerpoint of your target with offsets of half its width and height. Or vice versa.

    I've created a wiki that may help:
    http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_to_gsc_track_if_actor_is_over_another
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    first, does this apply to he car actor, or the actor the car drives over, and how can i make it where the points are continuous, not once every time Im on it? also, can the score text scroll with the camera and car?
  • CodeMonkeyCodeMonkey Posts: 1,803Head Chef, Member, PRO
    In my How-to the car is the actor going over the target.
    Instead of the 'Display Text' behavior that says "I'm on target" you can replace it with a 'Timer' behavior that increments a global attribute.
    Have another actor that has the 'Display Text' behavior that displays that global attribute.

    And to have the score scroll with the camera, put it in a different layer.
    See http://gamesalad.com/wiki/scene_layers
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    idk, it just crashes gamesalad every time... is it possible to(or if it is an easier way), to have points added to the score for how much i drift, instead of drifting in a certain area. and also, what do you guys think i should do about scoring?
  • BoinkologyBoinkology Posts: 7Member
    Thanks for the Wiki post on tracking actors. I have been using this method for an AI pathfinding solution. The wiki is a nice resource.
  • CodeMonkeyCodeMonkey Posts: 1,803Head Chef, Member, PRO
    Hey ktfright,
    Do you know what specifically was added that is crashing GameSalad? Do you only have one area that is updating the score?
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    The problem might be that I use a darker road square as a target for the actor to drift over. Every time I put that actor in the scene and press play, my car does not move at all and slows gamesalad down unless I take out the road actor. It might also because I put those constrain attributes in my car actor instead of my road actor. Another thing might be that I had way too many actors at once, like those boxes, but it could be that the road was in the wrong layer, but I have since changed that, but the problem arises

    Right now, I only had one area, but I was planning to put that road actor on corners of tracks for points, but now, I'm kind of lost.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    also, since it is a drifting game, should it even have points, or should it be something else?
  • CodeMonkeyCodeMonkey Posts: 1,803Head Chef, Member, PRO
    You could have a score increment every time you spawn the tire burn smoke. But its up to you if you want to have points or not.
    Perhaps something that just tells you how long it takes to run the course.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    thats a good idea, but how the car actor is set up, it can only spawn a new actor every time I press up; it won't let me set it to more than one button, but Thank you for your help so far. its good to know that gamesalad is there to help you out when there is a problem.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    cool, i sort of got the core gameplay in, but now,what do I do about drawing levels, or does the level look good how it is now?
  • CodeMonkeyCodeMonkey Posts: 1,803Head Chef, Member, PRO
    If you take a look at the Piryx Man game, that has a few layers on it. The road and grass is the furthest back actor. Then there is a layer of invisible "obstacles" where the buildings are situated. Then there is a layer for the checkmarks and the super hero, then the buildings overlay is above all of those, then the scores/HUD/logos are in a layer above those.

    You probably know about layers already, but it was an example of what you can do to make levels look neat.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    cool, i'll try that. thanks
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    also i need some help converting car sounds to ogg, audacity is kinda hard to understand
  • CodeMonkeyCodeMonkey Posts: 1,803Head Chef, Member, PRO
    I think if you can open your audio file in audacity, you go to the File menu and select Export as Ogg Vorbis. and that's all you need to do to make an ogg file.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    Cool, i got the ogg in, but for some reason, the car engine noise moves around the level with the car actor when it plays... how could i center the engine sound? Is it because i have a large level and I have the control camera in place?

    I dont know, that starfire game has the bullet sounds moving depending on where the ship actor moves, but i dont want that for my game.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    Cool, i got the ogg in, but for some reason, the car engine noise moves around the level with the car actor when it plays... how could i center the engine sound? Is it because i have a large level and I have the control camera in place?

    I dont know, that starfire game has the bullet sounds moving depending on where the ship actor moves, but i dont want that for my game.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    anything?
  • CodeMonkeyCodeMonkey Posts: 1,803Head Chef, Member, PRO
    Hi ktfright. As far as I know, the sound is using OpenAL and we currently don't have a way to change the way the audio sounds based on position and have it not sound weird.

    I guess you could have a sound actor that would always stay in the center of the camera view and then have it do the audio when those same conditions are met. Copy and paste that rule block with only the Play Sound behavior, turn off the collidable property, and put it in the same layer as the scoreboard.

    Hope that helped.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    Holy shucks!!! It worked!!! CodeMonkey, you and GameSalad are fantastic, and I couldn't do any of this without you guys. thanks for making an extremely great program.
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    another thing, i looked at other games similar to mine for reference, and i noticed that when the car has completely stopped,it is not able to turn around, unless you hit the gas, and then its able to turn. is there any formula reference or something i can look at to have that similar effect?
  • nulonulo Posts: 315Member
    make a attribute "gas_on" and set it to 0.
    when you press the gas button make it change the attribute to 1.
    when you lift the gas button set it back to 0.

    now put a condition with your down keys for left and right, and make it only work if gas_on = 1
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    is the gas on attribute a boolean, or integer?
  • nulonulo Posts: 315Member
    boolean since its on/off
  • ktfrightktfright Posts: 964Member
    cool, thanx, i got it.how did you know how to do that?
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