Mouse Movement

[IPete2]

I think the code you need is located here, under 'Click and Move Actor'

http://www.artsystems.com.au/game%20editor/


The code allows the user to click on the screen. The player then slowly moves to that positions.

Great little code snippet Jazz! Thanks for sharing.


IPete2.

[Fenrir]

yes I have tryed to read that .ged, but with no luck. GE frezzes and I have to do a ctrl-Alt-Del.

[IPete2]

Fenrir,

Have you the most recent download of GE? I am using the demo version 1.2.7 - downloaded this week from the demo download part of the website

I have tried it and it seems fine.

OKAY here is the process - follow this:

(1) Prefs set for 400*300.

(2) Create Actor called "Main_actor" - leave the pacman in the middle of the view

(3) Create a filled region, call it "click_me" and move it off top right of screen. Make sure the size of this Filled Region is as big as the view actor - Attach this script using "Add" - "Create Actor" - "Add Action" - "Script Editor" :

x = -(view.width/2);
y = -(view.height/2);


(3.5) You need to add the above code to the "View" Actor too.


(4) Then from the Actor Control Panel add another Event - this one "Mouse Button Down" - select the left mouse button and "Add Action" - "Script Editor". Now paste this in to the script.

MoveTo("Main_actor", xmouse - (view.width/2), ymouse - (view.height/2), 10);


Okay you should be set to go. Game Mode and clik on the screen.


I hope this works - let me know - all I have done is quote it from Jazz-E-s code.

IPete2.

[Fenrir]

Thanks, it works.

Now I just need to make the player to show the right animations while moving in the specific directions (preferably all 8 directions). You wouldn't happen to know this iPete, or would ya?

[IPete2]

Hi,

Hooray!

There is an example called "Beekeeper" on Jazz_e_Bobs list - can you try looking through that code?

IPete2.


PS

WHooa! I just looked at the Beekeeper code, it is quite a bit more involved. Jazz is using variables to decide which direction and animation frame he is on.

[Fenrir]

Well...

This make as much sense to me as a falukorv would to a caveman. Though I try to understand and to be better to understand, I'm not a programmer. I don't know what all of these functions does.

[IPete2]

Hey Dude!

Don't give up - I have been programming for years and although I can see the kind of thing Jazz is doing, I don't know GE well enough to just go - "Ah yes that's how I'll do that then!" - even when I look at the code side, I think hmm yes well I'm not there yet!

GE is great for devising some quick and easy events from the menu system. I am sure it is quite powerful underneath, but programming is about solving problems, to solve them you need to know the tools you have in your power to use.

I am finding GE a little bit of a struggle as I don't know it well and I think slightly differently from the menu system.

GE is like C with access to a fast interface for building ideas quickly (unlike C).

Keep at it - persevere and it will fall into place. Makslane has done an excellent job here, bringint the power to code for three platforms in one language!


IPete2.

[Fenrir]

It would be great to have a tutorial, covering the hole procedure!

[Just4Fun]

Fenrir:
Like you, I don't consider myself any sort of "super dupper" programmer. I am a much more a right brained artist and writer type! So, the way that I look at this, is that if I can learn to use GE, anybody can.
GE actually does a great job of holding your hand while you learn to script in C! If you get stuck, just ask here and someone will usually be able to give you an answer. If no one can or does answer you, Makslane will! He is definately a world class talent in programming as well as in many technical areas.
One thing I have found, is that learning any authoring/programming system takes some real work so try not to get disheartened. . .
Make sure to study the documents, tutorials, and the demos. They are very helpful. There are also some good introductory C language books that you can buy or possibly check out of the library.
It is good to have you here. Your questions are helping me to learn more about GE too. So keep asking...

[Fenrir]

Just4Fun:

I'm not about to quit, but sometimes you get overwhelmed by all the information you have to process!

Den som ger sig suger! As my father use to say.

[Just4Fun]

Fenrir:

Overwhelmed is a word that I relate to very well when it is used in reference to GE. One thing that has helped me (maybe it won't help you, but I'll mention it--just in case), is to concentrate on learning one small piece of GE first. For example, I still haven't learned everything about how to use each actor so sometimes I just play around with an actor and try to understand more of how the events and actions work on that actor. Then, I look at the docs and try to apply some script to the actor to see how the script works.

I agree though, I also wish for a more complete explanation of some of the script functions. However, slowly, I am beginning to understand some of the script functions.

I think you will learn scripting much faster than I have though. I'm very dense when it comes to programming...

[ingsan]

Hey Fenrir,
Is this what you want to do ?
http://www.pakingprod.com/MlleLafortune ... ndMove.exe

[willg101]

Dude! How did you program that click and move??

If you have the ged file for that, I'd use it!

[IPete2]

Will

Check out the top post on this page, I have explained how to do it using the code from Jazz_e_bobs demo.

IPete2.

[ingsan]

Jazz helped me understand HOW to ponder on the problem. And I thank him. But I did not use his method.