How do I get multiple "Is touching object" to work?

Hi

I'm making a two player game on one device and I can't get the touch to work properly. In the manual it says "The Touch object supports multi-touch. This is most useful with the On touched object and Is touching object conditions,..."

I have 2 players and 2 objects:

+ Is touching P1field --> P1 move forward 5 pixels

+ Is touching P2field --> P2 move forward 5 pixels

My problem is that only the first touch is triggered, so whoever starts the touch first, they will move and the other player has no control.

What can I do to make sure both touch inputs are detected?

Thank you

Spela

multi touch is a lot more effort than single touch.

in my experience, the best way to handle multi touch is to create a sprite called touchpoint and use that to track each touch. You create one on every touch start, update where it is every tick, and destroy it when that touch ends. that way you know exactly where the touch started, how long it has been in touch, and can control what it is allowed to do, what it should ignore, etc...

I made a quick sample, where I copied parts of my standard multi touch routines, so it is doing slightly more than what you asked for, but might be useful to see how I like to do it.

https://www.rieperts.com/games/forum/multitouch.capx

See also this example of dual-thumbstick I made for another post:

dropbox.com/s/rrpxnmer3gwhl88/DoubleVirtualGamepad_v3.c3p

Thank you for both examples, they solved my problems :)