Sounds like you would test if the falling objects have collided with his hands. On collision, you would then continually set the position of the object to the position of the hands.

I'm working on an RPG and I'm wanting to create a script so that the characters can move around in predetermined motions for cutscenes.

So my scripts might look like "90, F5, W2" which means "face 90 degrees, forward 5 spaces, wait 2 seconds"

So they are just strings of text that I will read 2 letters at a time, wait for it to finish executing, then move onto the next 2 letters.

My best idea for how to do this is to create an object called "script" and to give it instance text variables that will contain the text.

Does anyone know of a better way to go about it such as using a textbox or maybe reading an actual .txt file somehow?

I want to have multiple enemy ships make an engine sound when they appear on screen that lasts for several seconds.

However, if that enemy is destroyed, I want that enemy's engine sound to stop immediately.

How can I keep track of the individual sound I want to cut off? I can't name the audio tag with the enemy's IID cause it only accepts a string.

Thanks

keepee

Here's a quick .capx so you can see the problem. The way I have it set up, I would expect another good 5 or 6 bounces at least. But it only bounces twice.

I'm thinking the problem could be my low world gravity? The thing is that I want the ship to have, well, a low world gravity! I don't want it moving around too fast!

Yes, I see that if I increase the world gravity to 10, then the ship will bounce many more times, but the ship moves too quickly then.

And yes I could adjust the time scale...doesn't seem like the best way to go about it though.

I know what you're thinking "increase the elasticity!" but that's not enough.

I have a physics object that is bouncing off an immoveable physics object. Both physics objects have:

Density: 1

Friction: 0

Elasticity: 1

The object will bounce well as long as it is falling from a height that is at least twice as high as the object is tall. And it will continue to bounce back to its original height indefinitely unless I act upon it.

But if the object falls a distance that's less than about two times it's height, it just sticks to the floor. I want the object to continue to bounce in smaller increments! Any suggestions? Thanks

Ashley

Yes you are right of course! After upgrading to r155, my original program still didn't work right which I guess is because it was created in r152 so I remade it in r155 and it works! Thanks

LittleStain

Appreciate the thought LittleStain but that Astroids game is missing half of what I am wanting to do. In that game, when the ship collides with an astroid, it just plows through the astroid. There is no rebounding whatsoever. And the astroids are individual sprites and not a stationary object like my mountain.

The movement of the ship is too easy to recreate. The difficulty comes with having realistic ricocheting off stationary objects that are comprised of a tilemap.

RamPackWobble

Thanks for the reply! That second example looks pretty close to what I need. Unfortunately, I already stated that the bullet property doesn't work for the ship because it doesn't provide for a realistic looking motion. The ship should be able to look like it is floating out in space. Then accelerate in one direction, turn around 180 degrees and continue to float in the same direction. Then start to accelerate until it comes to a stop and then start moving forwards.

With the bullet property, the ship is always moving at a speed in the direction it is facing.

I can make the illusion that the ship is able to rotate freely while not changing direction but superimposing another sprite on top of the real ship and rotating that around. But when I want to move the real sprite underneathe, the movement looks unreleasitic when it instantly changes direction without any 'drifting' or 'sliding'.

The gameplay I am wanting to recreate is that of Solar Jetman on the NES. Here is a

I'm wanting to have realistic collision with a tilemap object.

I have a spaceship flying around and a tilemap object that shows a mountain.

I've tried giving the tilemap a solid behavior and my ship a bullet behavior. This gave me a good bouncing collision effect. However, the bullet behavior wasn't good for my ship because when the ship changed direction, the ship would instantly start moving in the new direction rather than continue to drift in the original direction and gradually accelerate to the new direction.

I've also tried giving the ship a physics behavior 'moveable' and the tilemap a physics behavior 'immovable'. However, my ship collides with the very outer rectangular bounds of the entire tile map rather than just colliding with the mountain. I'm not sure why the ship would collide with the entire tilemap because i've deleted all the tiles that are not a part of the mountain. But the ship still sees the empty tile space as part of the tilemap.

Are there any other ways of going about doing this? Thanks and Happy New Years!

puntodamar

One way would be to use the rpg engine you develop and have the game play on its own to tell a story. The graphics will look exactly like the game will except that you aren't controlling anything, just watching.

Another option would be to have still frames. You can make them a bit more interesting by having appropriate panning of the otherwise still frames. Or use fading ins and outs and flashes to show action. This artwork will tend to be more stylized and not look like the actual gameplay.

Bugasebi

Lastly, you'll notice that the blocks are not appearing cleanly from the right hand side. They aren't smoothly coming onto the screen.

Fix this by changing the spawn point from x=630 to x=730. Since we changed the image points, the objects need to be pushed to an earlier starting point.

But if you do this, they won't appear on the screen at all. Cause the layout is only 630 wide so they are destroyed instantly.

Change the layout width to 730 minimum.

Bugasebi

When you apply that behavior to the blocks, you'll see that they are still dissappearing too soon before they have completely exited the screen. Slow down the speed if you need to so you can clearly see the point at which they disappear. The program is using the "image point" to determine when the object has left the screen and the image points are set for the middle of the blocks.

To fix this, change the "image point" from the current location which is the center of the block and change it to the far right edge.