Hi guys, thanks for the suggestions and the example as well!

When I try that in a new project it works the way it should, however, it's not working in my project and I don't know why.

I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but there are 2 instances of the same tilemap on top of each other (one has the grass and the other has the objects like trees and river and bridge). I have tried referencing the instance of the tilemap by picking it via its own UID, but still no result.

Any ideas why?

Hi guys,

I'm trying to make a grapple hook / vine gun sort of thing. The idea is that I can shoot the target sprite which then sticks to certain objects. Once stuck, the vine is created by a repeat action, which creates the same sprite (rope) 6 times and moving each new instance at the "bottom" of the previous one.

I can't think of a way to have the player attach correctly to the segments and have him go up and down and be able to jump from it. I have searched for examples and video tutorials, however none of them have the vines set up like mine, and I would like to keep mine as it's relatively simple to make and I understand (finally) how to make one. I also don't want to change the vine to a single thin sprite with the sine behaviour as it looks stupid (looks more like a swinging bar). Here's a picture of the vine creation for a better understanding: i.imgur.com/0KnHjtj.gif

I'd really appreciate any tips or ideas.

Thanks in advance!

Hi there,

Thanks for the suggestion, will do :)

Hi there

Thanks for the link, there are some really neat examples in there, I will take the time to study them.

I have also sort of decided to put off working on "AI" for now, as it seems I need to learn more stuff in the meantime. I will concentrate on making the run&jump part of platforming and add more things incrementally, as I learn how to make them, like wall jumping, grappling hooks, effects, maybe some easy physics stuff. I'm a hands on kind of guy so the idea is that I can get comfortable with game logic, logic gates by following specific examples and then trying to tailor them to my needs/wishes. I am pretty set in making this little project, so not giving up so easily :P (plus I've just bought Spriter Pro as well, so I have to commit!)

I will definitely ask for more help in the (near) future, so thanks for the offer! :)

Hey!

The boolean "following" was made only so that I can disable the movement of the sprite when the attack was happening. I have not used a simple "platform disable" when "attack" animation is playing.

I wanted to make it "convoluted" as I wanted to give myself options when setting conditions for different actions I was going to have the sprite do. I guess I'm not already there, I need to study logic gates more, as I don't think I've quite understood them.

I am also learning pixel art in the meantime and also have a day job. I understand that this is going to take some time :)

As a last request, would have any links to any construct 2/3 articles that deal specifically with game logic / AI setup ? I do not have a background in programming, so it's hard to wrap my head around some concepts or the way logic is used, etc. I have read the documentation provided, and followed a bunch of tutorials from start to finish, but the thing with these tutorials is that they all explain the same basic stuff, but none of the things are required to take this basic stuff a step further. For non-programmers like me is sort of a dead-end, because I cannot follow through when I don't know how I can follow through.

For example there are loads of tutorials on how to make a sprite follow your character sprite. But I couldn't find any tutorials on how to handle what comes next, other than the rudimentary "overlapping object".

Thanks again for all your insight!

Hi

Thanks for the reply! first of all the art is not mine, I googled it, it;s free to use, just using it to test these things

By all means, modify and correct away, I want to learn what I'm doing wrong.

Cheers!

Hi guys,

So I'm trying to ultimately create a melee system similar to prince of persia (the original). meaning that when an enemy is supposed to react to the player getting close to it (or the enemy getting close to the player) and then attack / deflect in according to some conditions I will set.

I hit a very silly snag, however. I have an animation for attack that is supposed to play when the player is inside a certain range (I calculate the distance between player and the enemy). In the debug mode it's saying that all the triggers work perfectly, and also says the sprite has switched to the correct animation (attack), but the animations stops on frame 0 and I don't know why.

I have attached the CAPX with the little test inside, if anyone is kind enough to have a look and tell me what am I missing?https://gofile.io/d/06xwz9. Here is a screenshot of the events as well. Note: the "skelletongStates" group only has the states defined for "idle", "left" and "right" in regards to the sprite moving. The image is here: gofile.io/d/YrmujO

Thanks in advance for anybody willing to throw an idea around :)

Your solution worked like a charm, thanks very much! I have added the Pin behaviour to the health bar and added both monster and health bar in a container.

I have tried to do the For Each loop, as I want to try to make a wave system for the monsters, so I thought this would work best when I spawn a number of different type of monsters in a wave.

Your solution should work also because, as I understand this, I attach the health bar on creation of the sprite, so as long as they are in a container, doesn't matter how many I spawn, they will each have their own health bar.

Thanks again!

Hi guys

I'm trying to create health bars for enemies in this learning project, however, I'm encountering a problem.

When the health bar reaches 0, the enemy should do its dying animation and get destroyed, however this is not happening, and I think I have narrowed the cause the the fact that somehow there are 3 health bars attached to the monster, instead of one. The issue is that I don't know why there are 3 health bars, I have attached a screenshot below for you guys to check, as I've wasted more than an hour myself trying to understand what is going on.

On monster created, I have a sub event with a for each loop and a trigger once condition for creating the health bar above the monster sprite. As a separate event, I set the position of the health bar to the monster's position, and set its width as the HP variable from the monster. When the health bar reaches 0 (or below), it is destroyed.

I have also set a state for the monster stops the platform behaviour, sets the "Explode" animation, upon its finish. the monster sprite is destroyed. This is then tied to a condition below where it is actioned when the monster HP is less or equal than 0 (as damage received can take the HP into the negative).

As in the screenshot attached, I don't see where the other health bars are coming from. The all have the same position (I clicked on them in the debug page).

https://i.imgur.com/myD1FsO.gif

Can someone please explain what am I doing wrong here?

Thanks again :)