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  • I'm not 100% sure I know what you want, but I think I get it..

    in the case of the game i'm working on, I had a problem with the physics because I could drag a box through the walls of the truck.. to get around this, I added a local variable to my box objects, and when the box collides with any of the walls this variable "hittruck" goes from 0 to 1.

    then i have a rule for the dragging that this variable must be 0 to drag..

    http://part12studios.com/temp/FredexTest2/

    here is how the logic is setup.. and if i follow you correctly, this should help you with your problem:

  • yea i'm not using any special drivers, so maybe that's the issue. I'm using standard windows-supported game controllers that are working with other games like my NES emulator so I know the controllers are talking to the PC, but it's not making it to Chrome.

  • ok cool i'll definitely try that. this gives me several things to look into that i hadn't done in the past.. i'll have to reconstruct things a little to support this, but it will be totally worth it!

    I'll report back later tonight when I have some quiet time to focus on this.

  • Hi there,

    I am looking to do some work in CocoonJS to try and see if I can get a game on the Ouya that way. I figured it would be good though to be able to test a game controller on the browser before so i can be sure i'm doing things right in C2 before shooting off builds to CocoonJS.

    However I have several controllers that i know are working in Windows 8.1 I'm using Chrome for my default browser to test with. It seems that my games ignore my joystick inputs. I know the controls should work because i have an "or" condition with keyboard which responds fine.. it just doesn't seem that the joystick inputs are making it to the browser.

    I didn't see any tutorials or forum posts that really talked about joystick/browser/troubleshooting so I thought I'd ask here.

    Thanks!

    Caleb

    PS, has anyone been able to use CocoonJS with C2 to make a game for the Ouya? I know several games on the Ouya have been ported over (though not with C2 as far as I can tell) like this one https://www.ouya.tv/game/Bus-Driver-2d-Experience-Rush/ it's not much to look at, but at least it shows someone was able to do it with HTML5/CocoonJS.. now it's time to see if we can use C2 to accomplish the same results.. they even got the IAP stuff working which is especially exciting (I like trial modes for Ouya games)

  • ok i've seen that compare two values before, just never had a need to use it much till now!

    so when it "picks" the nearest... what exactly is happening? the nearest has focus? the nearest "wakes up"? Is there perhaps some "is picked" condition?

    when i look at a single box object, there is the pick nearest/farthest condition for that individual object, but i'm trying to access the choice from the family, not the individual objects..

    its just that everything fires off so fast, I'm trying to understand step by step here how i insure that if say.. Box2 (there are 5 unique boxes) is the nearest.. and it's within the distance range, it knows to be grabbed..

    if i do the rule of distance from it from the Box2 event sheet, that seems like it would ignore the family rated answer...

  • ah that's right.. families.. i remember those now!

    I got the family setup so that's awesome, but I quick realized I'm stuck replicating your approach.. here is what I am doing

    but i'm not sure about the IF distance and how you'd structure that. i can't find an "if" equivalent. When i try to call on compare actions, they are X and Y separate, not a fused one that a distance formula would work in.

    This is super exciting though. I definitely see what you're getting out, I just need to figure out how to check X,Y distance as you've stated.

    Thanks!

    Caleb

  • Hi there,

    Ok so I have this game that really is best on 7"+ screens, but i think the reality is that because I'm doing android, it's going to run on phones and phones are a BIG market to leave out anyway, so here is my situation.

    This is a prototype of what i'm working on. http://part12studios.com/temp/FredexTest2/ in short you flick the boxes into the trucks.. this is meant to eventually be something more like my prior gamesalad version (that i'm remaking in C2)

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    the problem i have is that the trucks and boxes have to be so big for phones to be easy to pick up that when you play them on bigger screens, so much space is wasted because everything is way bigger than it needs to be on those screens. in this example

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    you can see i made it for the ipad.. this was my first prototype.. the problem is that if this were to be taken down to an iphone size screen those boxes would be very difficult to grab.

    So i'm trying to figure out a way in C2 to allow me to have the boxes be smaller, at a size that often would be tough to reliably grab on a touch screen.. i'd want to grab the closest one to my finger touch event, but its very likely that

    one thought was to do some kind of distance compare, but when i tried to imagine doing it, it seemed like a rabbit hole of uncertainty.. i just wouldn't know how to do a mass comparison.. the boxes could get numerous so the comparison would have to be each box independent of which one it is (there are 5 unique boxes, each with sub box classifications, icy, explosive, etc)

    another thought was to have some kind of "grip" sprite attached to each box, but my concern there is that since boxes would very likely have overlapping "grips" you'd grab multiples or grab the wrong one..

    So really i just would like it to be able to make it where i can only grab one box at a time and that i'm insuring I'm grabbing the "most right" box possible because the game gets pretty frantic so i could see players getting frustrated if they are finding they are unable to grab the box they want..

    Thanks!

    Caleb

  • oooooo i see.. sorry i didn't notice the small "image points" window. ok that makes sense. awesome! I'll definitely have to explore that more.

    Thanks!

    Caleb

  • wow that's really cool, but how do you add more than one image point on a sprite? from what i can tell, I can only have one in a given sprite. i don't see a way to add more image points to a single sprite. every time i click somewhere, the image point moves to that spot.

    this is really cool though. I can totally see how this would be a much smarter / organized way to group objects!

  • sorry, i corrected that.. incomplete sentence.

    here is what i am working to achieve http://part12studios.com/temp/FredexTest1/

    if you click the colored bars below the truck graphics you'll see they shift the direction of the truck associated with it..

    but my original vision was to make one truck spawner and one box object and have them be able to change on the fly based on a variable.. but i ended up having to break them up into completely unique spawners / truck objects..

    however you do bring up a good point.. the copy being created is set to 0 in my "object" layout. which is a layout i put all of my objects into so i can keep the game layout clean of a bunch of objects just sitting around on the side of the screen.. which leads to your next comment, which is definitely a new action to me.

    regarding "spawn another object".. i've never even noticed that.. that's cool. i see it, but i do wonder how would i then set the relative x and y of the newly spawned object?

    it offers an object, layer and image point, but the objects i'm creating must appear in very specific relative locations.. there is 5 parts to each truck.. the base.. the roof.. the left right and back colliders.. would i then an "on created" and set the x and y that way perhaps?

  • Ok so digging a little more, it just seems like the problem I'm trying to work through is this..

    I have found a solution, but I'm not happy with it because I think I'm just not getting something right..

    So what I found I had to do was at start of layout, set a global variable of the spawners current angle.. then i set the angle of the spawner to 0.. then i create the respective container objects so they are lined up properly with the spawner then quickly set the angle of the spawner to the global variable..

    this relies on some timers to wait for things to fire off in time so I'm a little concerned the logic might crack if a given device chokes for any given reason. i can't help but think there is a better way.

  • Hi there,

    I have run into this a few times and I could use some help on this once and for all. what i have is a base object that I want to face any direction. whatever direction this is facing creates an object offset and in that direction. below shows what I have that works

    however, if i take away that set angle to random and just turn the object to any angle on the screen.. the object insists on spawning vertical at angle 0..

    so what is happening is when this "set angle" action is fired off, then the created object (truck) respects the spawners angle and works great, but nothing I've tried seems to get the created object to simply honor the spawners actual position.

    I'm sure this is super simple, but I can't seem to find what that solution is. I just want the created object to go according to the actual angle of the spawner, not require some scripted position, because I will be doing a lot of level design and testing which would be easiest if I can just move my spawners around and set whatever angle in the layout and those positions work.

    I have several complicated ideas that may or may not work, but I suspect there is something much more simple here I can try.

    Thanks!

    Caleb

  • that's way cool to hear, though i'm definitely one of those people that would require it be a C2 plugin to make good use of it. anything outside of that would be outside of my skill level.

    but regardless I can totally live without those other features starting out. things can be internal also, like achievements and such, but obviously not as powerful as being able to share them with steam friends.. the big thing is just making sure something can actually make it to the store and not get rejected.

    Yes of course greenlight is another concern as well, but seeing the sheer number of games being released now, it seems the bar is getting lower for whatever reason. I know a number of developers here in Boston who are on steam now through early access.

    Thanks!

    Caleb

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  • ok cool so you CAN just make an EXE and list it.

    but it seems there is no steam plugin right? I couldn't find anything in my googling.

    I'm surprised there isn't official steam support as an export option and/or behavior/plugin support to leverage that, but regardless it's great to hear it's possible to get something on steam!

  • I was reading this article http://www.develop-online.net/news/upda ... am/0194370 and it got me wondering how possible is it to reach steam with a C2 game?

    I imagine that there is some kind of API that steam provides developers and I don't see steam export as an option. However I realize NodeJS let's us make a proper EXE / APP file, but I imagine Steam requires more than you just uploading an EXE file.

    Has anyone published to Steam with C2?

    Thanks,

    Caleb