Point and click example

[Imperialjester]

Hello, i have seen on the forums that some people are having trouble with point and click games. my next game im going to make has point and click so i thought i would share.

If you like it please give me a +1.

[SuperSonic]

Nice, I like this a lot
+ point

[Imperialjester]

thank you, i am also working on one that doesnt use moveto. moveto seems to have alot of bugs in it =/

[skydereign]

Yeah, MoveTo is really nice for simple things, and I love the avoid feature, but is generally unusable in more complex games. Apalia originally used MoveTo, but due to the teleportation glitches was replaced by my own moveto functions.

[Imperialjester]

can you post your own moveto code? im having a hard time figuring it out.

[skydereign]

Sure, here is a quick version of it. The code was quite specialized to the ai system I used in apalia, so this is a slightly broader version, but allows the user to overcome some of MoveTo's bugs. Pretty simple, uses activation events for MoveFinish, but I didn't add precise movement (again due to how I was using it in apalia), but it is accurate to one frame's distance.

[Imperialjester]

thank you +1.

[Imperialjester]

is is it posible to use "Event Actor" as the relative actor?

[skydereign]

I didn't make it do that, but it'd be pretty easy. The thing is you'd have to use strcmp in the function as getclone does not support "Event Actor", and the other const strings. You'd add something like this to the beginning.

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if(strcmp("Event Actor, relativeTo)==0)
{
    relActor=getclone(clonename);
}
else if(strcmp("Parent Actor", relativeTo)==0)
{ // should have a check to see if parent exists
    relActor=&parent;
}
// etc...

That way the Actor* for relActor can use "Event Actor", and the others.

[Imperialjester]

okay thank you.