Race your own time against a ghost actor?

[Sgt. Sparky]

is there a wayRace your own time against a ghost actor?
where the main actor some how creates a path (my StickMan)
and when he finishes and starts over again he will have saved the path
and will create a slighly transparent actor that will fallow the path?
I know how to save and stuff, but how do I create the path in game?
is it possible with GE?

[Troodon]

I think it's impossible currently creating new paths in GE. You wanted to make an actor follow you after a time period? Or somekind of "review your route" ?

[Game A Gogo]

well, it also depends on what type of race your making, like is it only a one way movement (constently right, like your stickman jumper) or multyple movement.

[Sgt. Sparky]

The Ghost Actor Is My StickMan(Ghost) In the new versoin (posted on page 1 of GameDemos(forum)StickManJumper!(topic)
has an actor you can race (it does not amtter if you lose)and you can get so far in front of the ghost actor that it will fall into the eraser and DIE!
Ahem, well, and the eraser Erases!

[Troodon]

Can I try it as exe? I'm using GE 1.3.3 so I haven't tried your game yet.

[Sgt. Sparky]

oh yes, sorry, did you try to try it? because I have a very old versoin of GE or maybe same as you, I cannot post the .exe cus' when i try it on my comp(to access it) it said : "ERROR could not open file, coculd not read so and so..." but I will post my newest Game: wich is a smaller file, Here Ya' Go!

[Hedfone]

does it just go 4 infinite after the red fireballs?

[Sgt. Sparky]

it goes infinite after 5 mins

[Hedfone]

ahh,
i got to 16:49

[Sgt. Sparky]

wah..... wow, My best is bout' 5:30... Wow, so your fingers get tired? after 4 mins there are so many fireballs it get really hard, but then the shields start to appear faster, did you ever collect em'? the little green dots?

[Hedfone]

lol ,
after about 6 minutes, i was actually TRYING to hit the fireballs.
but nothin doin, i couldnt die.
even when you move, the green lights follow you, thus making it ridiculously easy to survive.

sorry if this comes out the wrong way, its not meant as an insult

[Sgt. Sparky]

it is okay I ment it to be that way if the green dots did not fallow you you may die fast , that is after 3-4 mins unless you are the average person who is 100x better than me at my game I stink at it.

[Troodon]

oh yes, sorry, did you try to try it? because I have a very old versoin of GE or maybe same as you, I cannot post the .exe cus' when i try it on my comp(to access it) it said : "ERROR could not open file, coculd not read so and so..." but I will post my newest Game: wich is a smaller file, Here Ya' Go!

I'll try your game as fast as possible! I just downloaded the newest GE's demo.

[Sgt. Sparky]

I think it's impossible currently creating new paths in GE. You wanted to make an actor follow you after a time period? Or somekind of "review your route" ?

Yup.

[DilloDude]

Here's a simple method that should work. You have a character that always runs in one direction. All you do is press and release a jump buton at the right time. You can add other keys, but for this example, I'll just use jump. The jump action is set up with a keyup and keydown event that changes a variable. The jump code is executed just by checking that variable (No other script on the events). This makes it simpler to do. You need an actor integer called 'time'. This will store the number of frames from the start. Create two arrays of long integers, one called 'rec', and one called 'read'. rec will be used to record the data you are currently playing. read will be used for the ghost actor to read from. You also need another actor integer called 'loc'. This will store the location in the array. You are using an actor variable calld 'jmp' to activate the jump key. A value of 1 means that the jump key is down, a value of 0 means it isn't. You'll also need another variable, 'stjmp', to store the initial position of the jump key. On your player's create actor, you need to initialize some vars:

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jmp = getKeyState()[KEY_SPACE];
stjmp = jmp;
loc = 0;
time = 0;

On your draw actor script, you need to increment time:

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time ++;

On your key down and key up events, add this script:

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rec[loc] = time;
loc ++;

This sets the next position in the rec array to the current time, and advances the array location. When the game ends, you need to copy the rec array into the read array. I think you'll have to go through each slot with a 'for' loop (or is there a faster way?)
Now you need a 'ghost' actor. Set it up the same as your player, except without the keydown/up events. The create actor script should be changed to:

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jmp = stjmp;
loc = 0;
time = 0;

On the draw actor script, you also need to add:

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if (time == read[loc])
{
    jmp = !jmp;
    loc ++;
}

This checks if it is time to change the jmp variable, and if so, it chnges it, and adjustts loc to find the next slot. If you want to save your ghost, you need to put the variables read and stjmp in a save group, along with any other information.
I think this should do what you want. If you want more keys, it's probably easier to set up an array for each, although you might find a more efficient way using structs. I can't make a demo at the moment, because my GE computer is not set up, but if you have problems, just ask, and I or someone else should be able to help.