R0J0hound's Forum Posts

  • You can make the trigger once with a variable and some events. 

    Variable bool=false

Condition
— if Bool=False
— — set bool to true
— — do something
Else
— set bool to false

    But since you want to reset things you could utilize a dictionary or array which would make less variables all over 

    Condition
— if negated dictionary.hasKey("trigger1")
— — dictionary: add key “trigger1” with value 0
— — do stuff
Else
— dictionary: remove key “trigger1”

    You just have to have a unique key for each clump of events. And making it reset would be a matter of deleting that key.

    There may be a way to simplify that further. If the conditions can be just expressions then you could do one liners with a function. 

    On function trigger
- Param text key
- Param number c
— set return to 0
— c <> 0
— — negated dictionary haskey key
— — — addkey key with value 0
— — — set return to 1
— else
— — removeKey key


Compare: function.trigger(“trigger1”, sprite.x>100) =1
— do stuff

Compare: function.trigger(“trigger2”, sprite.y<200) =1
— do other stuff

On any key pressed
— deleteKey “trigger1”

    Anyways, just some contrived examples.

  • I’m unfamiliar with any games like that and tried to watch that tutorial but it’s pacing is pretty slow.

    How it’s done is literally like making any game. The only thing specific to that game style is you just make things visible or invisible to show motion.

    Key controls move the player.

    Any text would just be a spritefont, or a sprite per character, or if you are feeling more ambitious, a sprite per part.

    Then you have an update function that you call which with change what’s visible and check if conditions are met and whatnot.

    At its core you have a player that has a position and a list of objects. They all have a location, which is just one of the sprites that can be made visible.

    Every update you change the location and check if say the player has an object right above him.

  • You can probably follow that tutorial to do it. Sure it looks different than doing it in construct but the variables and logic would be pretty much the same so it should be adaptable.

    All you're doing is changing the visibility of sprites. And there are probably many ways to do that utilizing picking arrays or whatnot.

    One way would be to take advantage of "pick nth instance" and the .iid expression.

    So just make your layout and lay down the sprites. probably a sprite type for the player and each column of falling objects. Then then use multiple instances of the player sprite for each horizontal position and instances for the vertical positions of the objects. The order you place the instances will matter.

    Anyways you could do the moving logic for the player movement like this. 

    global number index=0

every 1 seconds
-- player is visible
-- -- set index to player.iid
-- -- player: set invisible
-- key left is down
-- if index>0
-- -- subtract 1 from index
-- key right is down
-- if index < player.count-1
-- -- add 1 to index
-- pick index instance of player
-- -- player: set visible

    falling objects could be done in a similar way.

    I mean the general logic could just be if certain objects are visible then do this or that. Even if you did it in the most verbose way possible it still would still be doable. I'd recommend just breaking it up into smaller problems and finding ways to solve those. Then find ways to combine stuff. It should be doable.

  • I may be overthinking it but when two objects overlap there isn't typically a single contact point but an overlapping area. If the collision shapes are convex there may even be multiple areas. A way to find those areas would be to take the collision polygons and applying some clipping algorithm to that, but that's not very trivial to do.

    As a second phase you could then find the midpoint of those areas to give you a single point.

    Alternately you could utilize an algorithm called the Separating Axis Theorem (SAT) to push the objects apart to just be touching and find that point. If the shapes are concave then it would be more complex to handle. This is also a bit involved to make.

    Another idea is to utilize something like a raycast. Check the points from the hilt to the tip of the blade to see if any collide. As soon as one does, stop checking more and use that point. You could use the condition "pick object overlapping point" to do the point collision checks, or you could use a small detector sprite that you place along the sword.

    Anyways here's the point example way to do it. The sword has it's origin at the hilt and an imagepoint at the tip. 

    on sword collides with enemy
repeat 10 times
pick enemy overlapping point (lerp(sword.x, sword.imagepointX(1), loopindex/9), lerp(sword.y, sword.imagepointY(1), loopindex/9)
--- stop loop
--- create particles at (lerp(sword.x, sword.imagepointX(1), loopindex/9), lerp(sword.y, sword.imagepointY(1), loopindex/9)

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  • One way you could do it is utilize log10() to find the number of digits of a number. 

    Var number
Var d
Set d to int(log10(number)/3)
Set text to int(number/10^(d*3)*100)/100 & mid(" kmbt", d, 1)

    So something like 123456789 would result in 123.45m. It works up to the trillions (t) but to handle higher numbers you’d have to add to the text in the mid expression.

  • I think there’s a third party plugin to get the date. You can find a list of plugins somewhere on the forum or I think you can find it on the add on exchange part of the website.

    Or you can use the browser object with a little bit of JavaScript to get the date with this expression: 

    Browser.execJs("let d=new Date(); str(d.getMonth()+1)+'-'+str(d.getDate())")

    Which will give you 10-30 if it’s Halloween.

  • You can render to frames and import the frames as a 2d animation.

    There is also a third party plugin by mikal to load gltf files to display the 3D models with c3’s 3D. It also lets you play back animations in them.

    So if you can export gltf from maya that may be an option.

    Zbrush is the same deal. Just use a rendered image or export a gltf file to use with that plugin.

    So try out those options to see if what you want to do is doable in construct.

  • I don’t think they let you change the fov yet. You can switch between perspective and orthographic projection but that’s about it.

  • Here's one way to do it. You place sprites in order to make the path. Then as time passes they are made visible. An added nice feature is to draw lines between the points, as well as to a sprite moving along the path.

    dropbox.com/s/48gr76yk5flvasa/drawPath_overTime.capx

    This example only does one path. To do multiple paths the events would have to be tweaked.

  • megatronix

    I’m still running off memory here.

    I’m pretty sure the layers take either a number or a base16 string(hex). Or just hex in the properties toolbar. I forget if it let you use base2 strings which would be 32 ones or zeros in a string.

    Anyways I’d say try using a number with setbit() with your events to set the layers. Something like:

    Var layers=0

    Repeat 32 times

    Some condition

    — set layers to setbit(layers, loopindex)

    Anyways that’s my the idea at least.

  • It happens because qarp is a Bézier curve and b is a control point that the curve won’t ever touch.

    But you can take the equation and find the control point so that b is on the curve.

    stackoverflow.com/questions/6711707/draw-a-quadratic-b%C3%A9zier-curve-through-three-given-points

    X=qarp(xa, 2*xb-xa/2-xc/2, xc, t)

    Y=qarp(ya, 2*yb-ya/2-yc/2, yc, t)

    Alternatively you can utilize another kind of spline curve such as hermite or catmull-rom which always passes the curve through the points.

  • I often forget about how things work in the stuff I make. I’m just decent at figuring it out should I have time and access to a computer to try stuff out. But I haven’t been on a computer for weeks now.

    Anyways I don’t recall what values the the layers parameters take. Is it a number? A hexadecimal string? A binary string? I’d have to check, either by trial and error or looking at the tooltip text that shows up when selecting that field.

    I’m guessing If it’s working for only 8 then it’s in hexadecimal since 8 hexadecimal characters is 32 bits.

    I guess you could build the string up as binary first and convert it over to hex. Or maybe the action lets you supply a number instead of text you could use a number you set with the setbit() expression. I honestly don’t recall though. This is all off the top of my head.

  • You mean just get rid of the quotes?

    Set text to replace(text, """", "")

    Set text to "str("&text&")"

    Or do you mean just evaluating the formula in a string?

    Sounds like you already are utilizing execjs() to run it like a JavaScript expression, but want different syntax with pow and such.

    In which case I want to revise my previous reply. I’d recommend writing a parser. Or don’t. Just search for the newest posts by me where I mention parser and use one of those capx.

  • —

    At a glance I’m not super sure what I’m looking at. What’s not working?

    I’m guessing you’re intension is to have the scene divided into 32 z slices and set the layers depending on which ones the object is in?

    In which case I’d say look at your formula and see if it’s doing what you think it should be doing. If it isn’t then I’d say try re-thinking the approach. Best case you just made a typo somewhere.

  • Maybe this? It would give the angle above the ground plane.

    Angle(0, Obj1.zelevation, distance(obj1.x,obj1.y,obj2.x,obj2.y), obj2.zelevation)