Hey guys

I'm making a top-down shooter with gamepad controls - left stick controls the player while right controls the crosshair. I'm using 8-directional movement for both player and crosshair.

Currently I've managed to use simple formula where crosshair moves freely around the screen but when released it get's back to player's position

Every tick -> cursor: set position to (lerp(Self.X, player.X, 0.025), lerp(Self.Y, player.Y, 0.025))

I'm looking for a method to constrain crosshair's movement to specific distance from and to the player so it can fly away to maximum eg. 100px but also cannot be closer than eg. 30px.

Something like in this image

Great answer! :D Thank you so much —

Hi and thanks!

I've done something similar to dop2000 post

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I'm working on top-down shooter and I needed this detection to enable/disable certain controller specific events.

For PC I need to hide all on-screen controls that are visible on mobile but also I had to disable mouse when using gamepad as one of my events for kb&mouse controls setting is "Every tick - player aim set angle to MouseX, MouseY" so even if the player is using gamepad the character was still aiming towards mouse position

Thanks for the reply but that is not something I'm looking for.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my previous post - I want to detect input device dynamically to represent device used currently by the player. So in the example situation - lets presume the player uses PC and a gamepad - what I need is a way to detect if mouse was moved to change input device to "keyboard & mouse", and when player uses gamepad again it should change back to "gamepad".

It works as expected using keyborad key press. The mouse movement detection is all I'm missing

Hello

In my game I use three types of input controls

-Touch

-Gamepad

-Keyboard & Mouse

I want to detect input device dynamically according to one user is using.

In the case of keyboard & mouse I want this to be activated using both - by key press and by mouse click or move.

So far I managed to do everything except mouse move detection.

My events

So my question is - how can I detect mouse movement?

Thanks both of you

tarek's method did the trick wonderfully

here's an image if anyone else is intersted

Hi guys,

I've got a problem with spawning enemies while multiple spawners are in player's range.

I want to spawn one enemy whenever player gets near the spawner (in my example - less than 100px).

Everything works fine when there is only one spawner within the player's 100px range (one enemy is properly spawned), but whenever more than one spawner is in player's range the enemies are spawning endlessly from all spawners except the first one.

I've tried different approaches for measuring distance like:

• System - distance(player.X, player.Y, spawner.X, spawner.Y) less than 100
• above method, but with changing spawner's local variable "lod" to "1" when player is in range
• using "line of sight" behaviour on spawners

but all these methods produce the issue I mentioned earlier.

I've tried also different ways to spawn enemies but without success

• System - create object
• spawner - spawn

my events with all 3 methods of spawning

and illustration of the issue

It seems I'm missing something so any help would be much appreciated

Hey guys

In my game I have a boxes that should do 3 things:

• hurt the player (-1 health)
• set private variable "is_hurt" to 1 (default 0)
• bounce the player back

These are my events

Because I've set up my bounce like this (events 26 & 27) the player is bounced back immediatelly when he collides with kill_box and the variable "is_hurt" is not toggled at all.

The variable toggles only when I walk into the kill_box fast or slowly two times, see below

webmshare.com/play/nrGnb

Is there a better way to detect collision so my variable will change value before the player is bounced back?

Hello again

I'm currently working on dying animation and I've encountered two issues:

1. When player hits killing block he's always knocked back to different distance.

2. When player collides with said block while jumping he's thrown very high in the air. See here

While I could live with first thing, the second is really annoying and I really can't understand why this is happening. I tried using set air acceleration or jump strenght to 0 but this doesn't work.

This is how my events look

Help with both issues will be much appreciated

Thanks Jayjay, but unfortunatelly it doesn't worked

Although I've made it differently

I've added a variable to the player called "is_jumping", and then my events looks like this

1. Player is on ground - set "is_jumping" to 0

2. Player is jumping - set "is_jumping" to 1

3. Player is falling :

• value "is_jumping" equal to 1 - play rolled animation
• value "is_jumping" equal to 0 - play standard animation

Hey

If someone was curious how I handled previous bullet issue - I've created another object just for gun, pinned it to the character and used events to point it to desired direction/angle. Works fine.

Now I have another issue.

In Contra there are two falling animations - one triggered when player jumps ("rolled" jump animation until player falls on the ground) and other when player walks off a floor edge (single frame from walking animation).

I'm trying to recreate this but so far without success.

Whenever I'm trying to make different animation played when player walks from a edge it interferes with rolled jump anim because condition "is falling" or "is not on ground" is triggered due to in game physics and rolled jump animation is played only to top arch of the jump.

Does anyone has any idea how to bypass this and set two different fall animations?