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  • If I understand correctly you should have a global or instance string variable "HAT" which during the game can have values ​​such as "red", "green", yellow" etc...

    If you want to know if you can call a function by name, I know of 2 possible solutions. The first is mapping functions. The second is to use a script.

    But keep in mind that both could be less useful solutions, I prefer to use a single function and parameters, (using scripts complicates things a lot). I would prefer to use a "(everycolor)hat_ADD function with a string parameter "color" and call the function using the value of the HAT variable for the "color" parameter. Then the function would have a condition for each color e.g. "color=red" and its events. You can use "b" to create a subgroup of events. I have been using this method for a while. But if you have already thought about it and think it is really necessary to call the function by name you will have to resort to either function maps or scripting.

    If you search the forum there are questions and answers of all kinds. I asked for help in this discussion:

    https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/scripting-51/call-function-name-176356

    (in any case I never put scripting into practice because I didn't consider it necessary).

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  • I was wondering if it was possible to insert a 3D object into my 2D game.

    The game is a space shooter type (therefore completely 2D), but I would like to insert a layout in which the spaceship revolves around a space station. The spaceship moves left and right, as do the stars and background, simulating infinite rotation to the right or left. (instead the space station always remains stationary at the center and rotates).

    Initially I thought of creating 4 or 8 images (frames) of the space station to create an animation, but then I thought it would be simpler if I could create a 3D model (made with FreeCad) and directly insert the 3D space station. is it possible?

  • I don't have much experience with multiplayer plugin. Perhaps with string value you need to check that it's not empty. Add this condition to "For each cars" loop:

    Multiplayer.PeerState(cars.peerid,"inputs") not equal ""

    your method doesn't work. I think is because the action set client input state "inputs" to value (int(cars.inputs2)) must be a number.

    Now I solved by putting an event below:

    if cars.inputs2="" --> set client input state "inputs" to value 200.

    and instead of your condition I put cars.inputs2 ≠ 200.

    Now it work.

    Anyway thanks. I realized that making multiplayer games is MUCH harder than making local games.

    I'll probably ask for help again

  • Try increasing the precision in event #2 to "float 4 bytes". 1 byte can only represent numbers between 0 and 255.

    Thanks. now it works almost completely.

    But there is still a problem, when the stick is positioned to the right (so the value is 0) the problem persists.

    maybe I should change the "inputs" variable to a string?

    ugh I'm really struggling.

    How should I do?

    [update] I changed the "inputs" variable as a string and now it seems to work, but the sprite continues to move even when the stick is not touched, it continues to go in a straight line in the last recorded angle.

  • > and then Multiplayer -> set client input state to value Peer.inputs

    And then what do you do with it?

    Input state is just a value, it doesn't matter if it's from a keyboard, gamepad, mouse or any other input method. You need to translate this value to character movement. Perhaps something like this:

    Player move (speed*dt) pixels at angle (Multiplayer.PeerState(Player.peerid, "stick_angle"))

    Check out the official Pong example.

    yes, there are other events. Here is a screenshot of the entire event sheet. There aren't so many. If you want I can also share the project, but I think you should have a gamepad.

    With these events, everything works for the host. But for the Peer if I enable the event 16 enable local input prediction... seems to work fine, but what happens is that the object keeps moving back to its original position.

    maybe I'm making a mistake or this is not the correct method, what is it?

    [update] I noticed that the object moving back error only occurs when I try to move it up (for Peer preview) then moving the analog stick between 0 and -180. However, if I move it between 0 and 180 the object seems to move correctly in that angle.

  • I want to ask already if what I'm trying to do is possible or not, (before continuing to try in vain).

    In short, I studied the multiplayer plugin a bit and looked at the example of the tutorial (the fourth), this: https://editor.construct.net/#open=multiplayer-game

    and I would like to know if it is possible to do the same thing but making each player use a gamepad.

    And use the analog stick to move the character at a precise angle. I already tried like this: Peer -> set inputs to -> floor(angle(0, 0, Gamepad.Axis(0, 0), Gamepad.Axis(0, 1))) and then Multiplayer -> set client input state to value Peer.inputs

    but it doesn't work and I can't understand why... someone help me?

  • I think I solved the problem:

    the "audio codec" item should not be selected to "auto".

    I selected opus and it seems like audio is as the same time with video.

  • Thanks, I get it and this will help me a lot to learn javascript.

  • I'm using video recorder to record a presentation video for my game.

    The images flow well, there is no lag so I don't think there is a problem regarding the power of my PC.

    The only problem is the audio, which comes before the images. I looked online for a simple program to synchronize it, but I couldn't find it.

    And anyway I want to know if I can solve the problem.

    Do you have any ideas?

  • getAllAnimations() is an array. Here are the names of the first 2 animations:

    runtime.objects.Cannon.getAllAnimations()[0].name

    runtime.objects.Cannon.getAllAnimations()[1].name

    But I would like to assign the local variable string "allAnmt" so that it countains all the animations of the sprite, is it possible?

    Because what I get now is just empty spaces separated by comma.

    As many commas as there are animations -1. But there are no names. Why?

    With your script I select the animation at that index. I want to get the names of all the animations.

  • Thanks.

    Could you tell me what I'm doing wrong? It doesn't work that way.

  • I was looking for a way to check if a sprite has a certain word for at least one of all its animation names in an event.

    I found this post on the forum --> https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/search-animation-names-172085

    dop2000said:

    AnimationName expression returns only the current animation. There is no way to retrieve the list of all sprite animations. (except for calling internal C3 methods from Javascript, which is not recommended)

    I would like to know why he said that is not recommended?

    What is the script to do it?

    Thanks.

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