How do I make a pop-up menu when I right click an object?

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  • I am making a tower defense game (and having a lot of fun doing it).

    My layout (level) consists of open squares (the enemy can move through) and solid squares (they cannot move through).

    I would like to be able to right click on a solid square object and have a pop-up menu open, where I can select a tower type and then have it appear on that square.

    I have searched, but have not found a game or tutorial, that seems to have a simple pop-up menu like this.

    Can someone point me in the direction of a game or tutorial, I could look at and learn from?

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  • There are different ways to do it, you just need to keep testing and see which one you like the most.

    Here some ideas: 

    1-Create on the editor a Popup Panel and add all the tower animation frames available to the panel and place them in the right positions.

2-Add also a Button to Close the panel

3-(Create a Hierarchy between the frames + Close Button) and the Panel and make the panel as parent. And then on the "Tower frame Hierarchy settings", you need to tick:
Transform (X & Y)
Transform (Width & Height)

Do the same for the close button


4-Add to the panel the tween behaviour

5-Add a Global variable "UID"

6-On Tile clicked: 
--------- Set "UID" to Tile.UID
--------- Set the panel scale to 0
--------- Set the panel XY in the middle of the screen or in the position that you like to appear on the screen
--------- Panel start Tween size to scale back to its original size

7-On Tower animation frame clicked:
---------- Pick Tile by UID and enter the Global variable "UID"
--------------- Tile Spawn Tower 
--------------- Tower set animation to "Tower animation frame" that you clicked or use a variable to know which tower you need to spawn



8-On button Close Touched: ------- Panel tween Scale again to 0 to close it and hide it when the tween finishes

    That's the basics you need to get started.

  • These are great suggestions!

    I will try these out and see what works best.

    Thank you so much.

  • There's also this example project utilizing the HTML Element

    editor.construct.net

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