Tokinsom's Forum Posts

  • After like 3months of using Construct i am stuned and saden by how small progress ive made and how huge my own limitations are. That being said, i find myself unable to develope any game of my design using Construct.

    This topic is preety much my last hope.

    After like 3 years of using Klik n' Play, Click n' Create, TGF, Jamagic, MMF, MMF2, GM, Construct, and attempting python & C++, I'm stunned and saddened by how small progress I've made and how huge my own limitations are, HOWEVER I've come a long way, worked with a lot of people, and made close to 50 games (cough..'engines' and unfinished games at least) and am pretty happy to have gotten this far.

    Davioware is right; 3 months IS absolutely nothing when it comes to this stuff. I've been working with Construct since last june, and even though I've made a number of projects with it I've still barely grazed the surface.

    INI is pretty simple, and Construct pretty much handles it for you. If you don't like INI try arrays, if you don't like those try hashtables, if you don't like those either then hell I dunno, make a game that doesn't require saving or use Construct's save thing lol.

    If you still feel like throwing in the towel then good luck finding someone to program your game for you.

  • Ahhh I didn't really think about that.. Well thanks man this works great! I'll try to look over my events a bit more carefully next time.

  • Blah. Tried a family but I'm not really sure how to use it in this situation. I recreated the bumping in this cap. Maybe someone can have a look?

    http://www.mediafire.com/?6wbegjf7fp7b3zb

    (Player 1 uses arrow keys, Player 2 uses A,D)

  • That would take forever. Maybe people could just look at the date before posting? <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /> Not to be like that about it, but cmon now.

    (How do you end up on page 700 or whatever anyway, geez)

  • Say you've got an enemy with a value of 0 who collides with another instance of itself with a value of 1. In turn, the actions to that event apply only to the enemy with a value of 0.

    How would you turn that into an event? (I'm using a family "PlatformEnemies" by the way)

    To be a bit more clear, what I'm trying to do is get my platform enemies to turn around when colliding with eachother, but change which one turns depending on how they collide and which enemy is doing what at the time.

    Examples:

    Two enemies facing eachother collide - turn both around. That's an easy one.

    One enemy collides with an enemy who's currently turning around - Only turn around the enemy that wasn't turning.

    One enemy falls on top of another enemy who's facing the same direction - have the enemy that fell turn around, leave the other one as it was.

    One enemy somehow ended up overlapping the other enemy, and they're both walking in the same direction - Have one of those enemies stop until they're no longer overlapping.

    As far as I know there's really no way to write events like this.. I've been messing around with the advanced collision condition, but I still haven't gotten anywhere. Any ideas?

  • In my 2-player game, a player can run into the other player to knock him back a little bit. Both players get knocked back, but the one who wasn't moving, or was moving slower upon impact, gets knocked back farther.

    Problem is, player 1's "bumping" events are above player 2's, so player 1 always knocks player 2 farther back. If I put player 2's "bumping" events above player 1's, then he will knock player 1 farther back.

    I need both players to get knocked back the exact same distance when running towards eachother, or one of them will have an advantage. The problem is clearly with the order of events, but I have no idea what to do about it. Any ideas?

  • He does this thing where he locks you over his head and then waits, it's cheating.

    Hahaha I do that all the time! Atleast you can button mash your way out of it. No worse than constantly hitting the block underneath them.

    Anyway. Hmm..Well that helps a bit. I'll see what I can do.

  • Sorry to ask such a BROAD question...but what's the best way to do multiplayer?

    I'm trying to make a game similar to Mario Battle or whatever it's called. This:

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    Basically you have 2 players that are EXACTLY THE SAME except for their sprites and their controls. I've thought up a number of ways I can do this, but none of them seem..right.

    1. Make duplicates of player 1's collision and sprite masks, put everything in 1 family, then use the family in events instead of the actual objects and let Construct's object selection do the rest. That sounded easy enough until I found out if I change one collision mask to player 2, it changes the other one as well, and there's no way to change the platform behavior's player in events. So that's not gonna work.

    2. Make player 1 and player 2 completely different objects, but with the same values and events. That would be pretty easy except I would have to program everything TWICE, and AGAIN for each additional character. So much for 4 player That's not gonna work.

    3. A confusing combination of 1 and 2 that hasn't worked out too well so far.

    So. I haven't found any examples and this is my first time making a multiplayer game. I would greatly appreciate some help as I'm trying to finish this for a new years party! Thanks!

  • .> I don't think that qualifies as a MAJOR ISSUE..

    From what I hear find/replace is kinda buggy or unfinished or something anyway.

  • Sounds like you checked "snap-to moving." Could be wrong though. .Cap couldn't hurt.

  • lmfao.

    That's great.

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    Ugh they're cut off. Wasn't there a scrollbar that appeared when that happens?

  • -facepalm-

    Clickteam has been around since like..1994.

  • XD Wow I completely overlooked those..I've been trying to use ScrollX and ScrollY by themselves lol..Thanks!