Switching between two player objects

Hi!

I wanted to know if its possible to be able to switch between two player objects like in the game Thomas Was Alone. To give an example of what im talking about say you have objects A and B. When u select and control A, B is not moving or being controlled, only A. And when you switch to B, you only control B. Player A stays still and is not being controlled.

Thanks

Sure it's possible, you can do it all through a combination of built-in movement behaviors and events to scroll and switch between them (scroll to object event, as well as ignore movement depending on which is selected, and a global variable to say which object to control)

Thanks for the answer!

Could you give me an example because I am new to this and don't really understand how to get the scroll object events and such.

Sure can <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle"> Took me a little while to throw together but here's an example cap file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4714446/MultiChar.cap

You could use families to simplify events, but this method works well if each player object will use different behaviors and etc.

Edit: Oh, use keyboard keys 1, 2, and 3 to switch and arrow keys to move around. I set unbounded scrolling just so you can see the scrolling is working properly (in bound scrolling it will stop scrolling near edges of the level)

thanks so much for the help

just another quick question (hopefully this isnt asking for too much) but i wanted to know if it is also possible to make buttons so when u jump over it it will make a platform move or a "hatch" slide open?

Sure no problem <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle"> I just threw this example together for you: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4714446/HatchDoor.cap