sman118's Forum Posts

  • Animmaniac That is really cool. I like how the Civilian box kind of shifts to the position. I really need to look into "lerp". It looks like it can be used for easing things into place which would give a more organic look to some of the things that I'm doing.

    However, with the way I'm working, I need the lifted object to constantly be stuck to an exact spot on the animation. For instance, If I animate someone bending down and picking up a box, I need the box to stick to the character's hand the in each frame of animation.

    That's why I went with creating an invisible sprite that updates to the image point through the entire game and then pinning to that sprite using chrisbrobs method.

    Here's the capx: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56104169/PinTest%2011-21-12.capx

  • Figured it out! At least I think I did. So I went and followed the steps that chrisbrobs used to pin the object to the player at the image point. Problem is, it wouldn't follow the image point as it updated through the animations.

    So to fix that, I created a sprite (that will be invisible during play) that would update its position every tick to be at that specific image point that I wanted. Then, instead of pinning the object to the player, I pin it to the sprite that is updating to be on the image point. I still have to do more testing, but so far its working great.

    Thanks for everyone's help!

  • Thanks, — I tried teaching myself C# for a long time and couldn't wrap my artist brain around it. Construct 2 is the sole reason I didn't have to give up on my game idea. But I'm still jealous of programmers. I regularly hit road blocks that a mind for programming could fix. The community here has been great for helping me get past those.

  • > aruche that is AWESOME and exactly what I needed. Problem is that I'm trying to set the object down and any code I try to figure out isn't working. I'm trying to toggle the carrying off and have it end up at the player's image point and left there on the stage.

    If you're doing what I think you're doing, you have similar setups for the events for turning carrying on and off. Problem with this is that they will toggle in order.

    This order of events:

    + Player presses S

    + Carrying = false

    - Toggle Carrying

    + Player presses S

    + Carrying = true

    - Toggle Carrying

    It's first going to toggle the Carrying variable, but instantly afterwards it's going to toggle it again, because the conditions for that event have now become true. This will give the appearance that it doesn't work and you can't pick up the item, while in reality you're picking it up and immediately putting it down. If you reverse the order you'll have the opposite problem, you can pick the item up, but you can't put it down.

    > I really appreciate the help. Also, if you could friefly explain what you did, that would help me learn it for next time. Thanks!He's effectively doing what I wrote in my post.

    So are you saying that there's no way of setting the object back down? Maybe I should look into destroying the object and spawning a duplicate where I want it set down. It might even be easier to attach a sprite object containing all of the objects you would carry to the player. That way I could just give the illusion of holding it. Thoughts?

  • aruche that is AWESOME and exactly what I needed. Problem is that I'm trying to set the object down and any code I try to figure out isn't working. I'm trying to toggle the carrying off and have it end up at the player's image point and left there on the stage.

    I really appreciate the help. Also, if you could friefly explain what you did, that would help me learn it for next time. Thanks!

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  • I'm afraid I'm really lost. I have conditions set up for the player being over the object (orange box), a variable to check if the player is already holding an object, and what I think is a boolean checking if the box is being held. Then the player should just press the S key to pick it up.

    Problem is there is no option to check anything every tick to adjust the position. I can just assign the position, but without the "every tick" function, it just pops to where the image point was on the first frame and stays there.

    I've attached my capx file and would appreciate and help on figuring this out. I'm kind of lost. Thanks.

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56104169/PinTest.capx

  • You just need to set the object's position to the image point before you pin it.

    That's working for lining up the object first, but I need it to follow the image point in other animations. Its basically lining itself up with the image point in the default pose and then pinning it there. When I switch animations, it still stays in the position from the image point on the default frame.

  • I don't think there's an option for that under Pin. Once you pin to object, it really only lets you select the mode (position, angle, rope, etc). If there's no easy way, I may create a blank sprite at the image point and then pin the objects to that.

  • I'm trying to have my character be able to lift and carry objects around (and eventually set them down). I had it working where when the player overlapped the object and pressed a button, the object would be pinned to the player. I'd like to use an image point to control the location of the object in the animation. For example, place the player's image point on his hand and have the object stick to it.

    I see a set position/angle feature that allows you to choose the Image Point, but can't find anything similar in the Pin Behavior. Any help is appreciated.

  • Added a quick screen shot of the some art assets and a building template into the game. See on original post and view more updates at NeedYourDisease.com

  • kayin, those are excellent points. The cape is making a lot of these transitions necessary. I really like your idea about turning away from camera and might explore that option in the future. I'm trying to limit the amount of extra work I have to do on this and that might help shave a couple frames off.

  • You're probably right, though I probably will still add a separate set of images for when the player is carrying a person.

    Basically, the way I have it worked out now is that the player's head, arms, chest, and whoever they are carrying will be a static image on top of an animated body and cape. So each carry-able NPC will only have 4 images to deal with (1 holding image and 1 transition frame of the NPC being set down/lifted up for the two directions). The most care will be given to the animated body and cape.

  • Trying to wrap my artist brain around this and thought I'd throw it out to the forum: I was creating assets for my game and realized that flipping my art wouldn't be "correct" in a few situations. Mainly situations where you are carrying a civilian/NPC (see attached picture). My question is: Do people even notice this kind of thing? Is continuity important in games or do they just get a pass?

    <img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56104169/ContinuityQuestion.jpg" border="0" />

  • All of the programs they suggested for digital art are great, but to get an idea how to have your character's body positioned, you're going to want to find some reference for your drawings. An excellent source of photo reference is the Muybridge books. Just look up his name on google and you'll see plenty of photo's from his books.

    If you are just looking for a simple breakdown of how to draw it, check into the Preston Blair animation books. The image below is from that book and may be all you need:

    <img src="http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/aim/a_notes/p_images/walk_2_legs%28side%29.gif" border="0" />

    Also, you might want to try just doing it on paper and then scanning it into the computer. That way you can see through your pages while you draw and keep the proportions right. You can then use the other mentioned programs to either trace your rough sketches or clean them up. Hope that helps.

  • I'm going to test it as a shadow for my player character as long as it isn't too intensive on the computer. Edit: Found that I can just destroy it if they don't have WebGl.

    I could probably do a batch convert in photoshop if this doesn't work. Just thought it would be cool effect.