hey everybody, i need some help with an idea that i have, and me being more of the artist type with little programming behind me. i am having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to code things. this is what i want to do.

im pretty sure all of you have seen the physics sand fall game right? well i have an idea around the basic structure of that.

i want there to be a menu of all the elements and be able to select which element the mouse is using. for example

i have a fire sprite. i want this fire sprite to be selectable from a menu, allow the mouse click to create the sprite at the point of the mouse. i want physics and collision, with other elements and i want certain outcomes from certain elements colliding.

right now i have it so that a sprite can be created with a mouse click, but it can only do one element, so i dont know how to tell it to select another element. im going to have alot of elements, which i know will complicate things, but for right now im just trying to get some of the basics down.

so i want the mouse to control pretty much everything, i want to be able to create some sort of menu to select different elements, i want the mouse to realize which element is selected. and i want to be able to set up elements to interact with each other.

ex. when fire and water meet, they create steam.

if anyone knows more about coding in construct i would greatly appreciate your help.

so i followed your advice and right now my event sheet looks like this

mouse-on left button click-system create object element1 on layer0 at mouse.x, mouse.y

element1-on created-set physics world gravity-enable physics collisions.

nothing is being created though, its all just a blank white screen whenever i try to test it. help?

I'm really sorry to bother people with this question, but I'm not a programmer of any kind, so I'm having a hard time hashing some things out. I have tried looking through all sorts of sites, but i guess i just dont understand. this is what im trying to do

i have a sprite called (element1) i want this sprite to be created when you click the mouse. i want it created where ever the mouse pointer is at that moment.

i want (element1) to have physics so it reacts to gravity and other sprite objects.

if anyone could help me out i would really appreciate it, im sure i will have tons more questions as i sort through this game idea i have.