..use 8 direct behaviour to move in steps of 32?

I'm trying to recreate a game i was working on and I need my character to move in steps of 32 pixels at a time, is that possible using the 8 direction behaviour?

Edit: I tried using Set X to player.X + 32 in the event sheets but I need to have collision.

hmmmm check the FAQ before posting

Sorry, may be I'm not looking in the right place, could you point it out to me? :)

The 8 direction movement isn't really designed for this kind of use. You should just add events to move it how you want, and detect solids in events as well.

I asked this question, and the decision has been found:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50657347/GridMove.capx

http://www.scirra.com/forum/grid-movement_topic46367.html?KW=Grid+movement

Thanks guys.

alexei: That's sort of what I'm after but how would I do it without the targets, just the main sprite?

I want to do something like:

right key is pressed:

... check if there's a solid 32 pixels to the right

......if there isn't move player

... else don't move player

So I need to check 32 pixels in the direction the player will be moving first.

Nickydude: if you don't want to use the targets, you need to use an array to store the tiles.

And if you don't want to use targets or arrays use this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples%208/grid.capx

Only remember to keep the player sprite a bit smaller than the grid size. Two 32x32 objects 32 pixels apart count as overlapping in C2.

Two 32x32 objects 32 pixels apart count as overlapping in C2.

That's interesting, good to know. I'd like to hear from Ashley about this, does it have to be this way? I like it more in the CC where two objects in the same situation don't count as overlaped.

Yes, two adjacent objects count as overlapping by design. The platform movement doesn't work properly without this. It's because CC used a pixel-perfect collision engine but for C2 we changed to a polygon system which works a little differently.

Or you can use another sprite just to detect collisions.

grid2.capx