Platform Example (Dectector, Animations and Music)

Hey all! This might be useful to some starting out, it's basic but covers using a detector, animations and music.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/4/1796632/platexample.RAR

Big thanks to Captain Oblivious who helped me with animations and Ashley and Rich!

Good luck!

Great example Thoroughly commented too! Good job.

Is it just me or does the character go invisible when pressing left? (Presumably due to lack of left animation).

Otherwise it's great.

Hm I don't have that problem...very very weird

This would be a good time to mention the bug where platform objects with mirroring disappear when facing left on vista machines is still there.

I'm running windows XP and I have the same problem... Left disappear

I think the disappearing while facing left is a graphics card dependent bug. Could everyone list their graphics card and whether or not it works?

I'm on a GeForce 8800GT and it works fine.

Actually, never mind. I think this bug is fixed in the next build. DirectX was complaining about an invalid setting in debug mode - which would have affected auto mirror - and this is corrected now. Next build should have solved that.

Nice Example, and is possible shoot and jump shooting like Megaman games movement?

( Sorry about my bad english , I speak Spanish, I'm from Chile)

I'm on Ati Radeon 1650PRO and it works well.

MEAGAMAN FTW! I'm a MegaMan freak LOLOL. You should see my Rockman figure collection...

Yes that is easily possible, you'd need the following animations:

Idle

Walk

Jump

Shoot Still

Shoot Walking

Shoot Jumping

Slide (if you want)

for setting the animations, you'd just put in the condition player pressing/not pressing 'firebutton'

Example: Walking Right and not shooting

MouseKeyboard: Key Right arrow is down

MousKeyboard: Key Control is down {INVERSE THIS CONDITION}

System: 0 MegaMan[Platform].VectorY Equal to 0

System: Trigger once

MegaManSet animation to "Walk"

MegaManPlay current animation

MegaManSet angle to 0

Example: Walking Right and shooting

MouseKeyboard: Key Right arrow is down

MousKeyboard: Key Control is down

System: 0 MegaMan[Platform].VectorY Equal to 0

System: Trigger once

MegaManSet animation to "WalkShoot"

egaManSet animation frame 1

MegaManPlay current animation

MegaManSet angle to 0

I'm sure you can understand how to differentiate jump and jumpshoot animations:

Example: Jumping and shooting

MegaMan Animation Jump Playing

MousKeyboard: Key Control is down

MegaManSet animation to "Jumpshoot"

Example: Jumping and not shooting

MegaMan Animation Jump Playing

MousKeyboard: Key Control is down {INVERSE}

MegaManSet animation to "Jumpshoot"

Thanks, i've been working on it, but i have a litte errors and buggs and don't know why -.-. can you check it o.o, is there someting wrong?

http://www.4shared.com/file/50718755/f4 ... nline.html

anyone have input?

there is a method to improve the coding with Flags ( like MMF) ,When Character is in the ground, Flag 1 is on and when is in the air Flag 1 Off, when shooting FLag 2 On/OFF, or it can be use with values?.

And the other think i was thinking is create a Delay ( is this expression correct?) when the Character is recibing damage using a kind of counter? o.o.

I think i can't do X shoot well because the variable Character[Platform].VectorY is blocking any animation change ( because it set the stand Idle animation) and it don't permit change to stand shoot or walk shoot.

AH good thought, using counters. Yes, having named variables is very nice in construct for these reasons! Sorry, last night I wasn't thinking too straight (just got off work).

You have the idea though:

while on ground and press control

set groundshoot value = 1

While on ground and value groundshoot = 1

Play Shoot animation

same for jumping

The only problem is that "when animation finished" is not working, so you can't just yet do:

Animation shoot over

set groundshoot = 0

set X animation to idle

frame 1

play

ect ect

Nice example! I love the animation. Construct really needs a 'is standing on ground' condition in the platform movement hey...or perhaps even some generally collision functions so instead of just 'is overlapping' we could have 'is touching above / below / left / right '.