Hi,

I loaded my game to my director and it loads up properly but when I enter a level between 1 and 6 and then hit the button, it doesn't take me to a different layout. The text input box and the button disappear.

It works properly in the editor when I test the game as a preview.

www2.smumn.edu/facpages/~mratajcz/game/index.html

Is it something to do with those types of objects and maybe my browser? Any ideas I can look into?

Hi,

Top-down style game.

I have a player sprite with walking animations for left, right, up, and down. I am using a mouse click and pathfinding behavior to move the player. Works like a dream except I am currently only using one animation frame for up, one for down, ignoring left and right. Now it's time to evolve my game and adjust animations based on movement direction.

Problem, since I am using mouse click, is there a way I can mimic the 4 direction movement so I can run an event that adjust the animation to the appropriate direction? What I am experiencing is that if I click 40 pixels down and 20 pixels to the right, it's only showing one movement since it's moving diagonally. So then it got me thinking about mimicking 8 direction movement. However, the question is the same...

I understand that if I used the 4/8 sided movement behavior instead wherein WASD is used, I can easily adjust my animations to show the player moving left, right, up, or down, diagonal. Is there a trick to mimic this using my mouse click event instead of the 4/8 sided behavior?

I was thinking of doing an evaluation constraint based on current location X,Y and the targeted location X,Y and which ever is greater, then use an animation based on that evaluation. Is it as easy as that or is there an optimal way?

Thanks!

Hi,

I want health bars for each of my characters on the screen.

I've made health bars in the past with two objects, setting up multiple events and doing the numerator/denominator * bar size and it has worked okay but then I am having to manager multiple objects, etc...

I recently discovered the progress bar object. It works a bit smoother and easier for me. (I guess personal preference, maybe a sign I am not a solid designer?) and I am wondering if there's a way to change the color from the default solid blue when there is a value in the object.

I suspect it is not possible due to the documentation stating the following and I should therein just do the two object method I have been doing.

"The progress bar is styled differently depending on the platform or browser, designed to match the style of the system. "

Is it possible?

How can it be done, I don't see any method such as progressbar.backgroundcolor, etc...?

Thanks!

Thanks. That's a nice idea. I was thinking of converting(redesigning) my arrays to multidimensional. I've been doing one-way arrays for so long, it's time for me to grow, pun unintended.

Hi,

Let's say I shoot a missile at a sprite object such as a crate. Upon collision, how do I break apart the crate into separate pieces and then fade away?

I understand the fade behavior so my question has to do with the breaking apart effect.

To clarify, I am aware of spawning particles such as explosions or flames and destroying the sprite, I am just thinking it might be a cool effect to show the actual sprite being split into pieces itself rather than a particle affect doing something.

Any ideas?

Yes, families is the key since you have multiple objects. Otherwise you'll have to cleverly and with elbow grease put in some clever events. And you'll eventually run out of free events that Construct 3 allows you to have before you have to upgrade.

One other approach I use but will also be event heavy is one sprite, multiple animations, and frames within each animation. You'll still need events to check which ammo type or weapon type is used in order to do your work. Shotgun spray for example would act differently than a laser beam, etc..., well in theory.

I made a weapon one time that had a random bullet type coming out of it from an RPG, to MP5, to Shotgun to grenade (frag, cyro, acid, gas), etc..., it was a lot of fun but a lot of planning to execute.

I make a lot of sci-fi game environments and use weather patterns to affect projectile performance but don't get me started... I am a Business Intelligence / Data Science professor by day so thinking up all kinds of data, variables, etc.., is my zone.