I have a game where a sprite is moving using the CCActionMoveBy function, and it moves until its outside the screen and then comes back. However, if it hits another sprite before it reaches the end of the screen I want it to stop for half a sec before it returns back again, instead of keep going all the way to the end of the screen before returning. So how does one stop a CCActionMoveBy function mid way? and make it move somewhere else?
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I am currently working on a new RPG game using Pygame (my aim here is really to learn how to use object oriented programming). I started a few days ago and developed a movement system where the player clicks a location and the character sprite goes to that location and stops when it get's there by checking if the sprite 'collides' with the mouse position.
I quickly found however that this greatly limited the world size (to the app window size).
I started having a look into making a movement system where the background would move with respect to the player, hence providing the illusion of movement.
I managed to achieve this by creating a variable keeping track of my background map position. The map is much bigger than the app window. And each time I want my player to move I offset the background by the speed of the player in the opposite direction.
My next problem now is that I can't get my character to stop moving... because the character sprite never actually reaches the last position clicked by the mouse, since it is the background that is moving, not the character sprite.
I was thinking of spending some time coding in a variable that would keep track of how many displacements it would take the character sprite to reach the mouse clicked position if it was to move. Since the background moves at the character sprite's speed it would take as many displacement of the background in the x and y directions to center the clicked position on the background to the character sprite at the center of the screen.
It would be something like that:
If MOUSEBUTTON clicked:
NM = set number of moves needed to reach the clicked position based on character sprite distance to click and character sprite speed.
If NM != 0:
Move background image
Else:
pass
This would mean that when my background has moved enough for the character sprite to now be just over the area of the background that was originally clicked by the player, the movement would stop since NM == 0.
I guess that my question is: Does that sound like a good idea or will it be a nightmare to handle the movement of other sprites and collisions ? And are there better tools in Pygame to achieve this movement system ?
I could also maybe use a clock and work out how many seconds the movements would take.
I guess that ultimately the whole challenge is dealing with a fixed reference point and make everything move around it, both with respect to this fixed reference, but also to their own. e.g. If two other sprites move toward one another, and the character of the player also "moves" then the movement of the other two sprites will have to depend both on the position of the other sprite and also on the offset of the background caused by the movement of the player's character.
An interesting topic which has been frying my brain for a few nights !
Thank you for your suggestions !
You actually asking for an opinion on game design. The way I look at it, nothing is impossible so go ahead and try your coding. Also it would be wise to look around at similar projects scattered around the net. You may be able to pick up a lot of tips without re inventing the wheel. Here is a good place to start.
scrolling mini map
I am trying to make a man jump on the y axis, so I use a loop of 2 seconds, the first second it should move down and bend its knees, and the second second it should move up and then finish in the starting position. Right now am just starting to make the man go down and bend it's knees in the first second, I haven't programmed the rest of the animation. The problem is that glutPostRedisplay is not refreshing the screen inside the loop as needed so it looks like an animation, it just re displays the screen after the loop has completed. How do I get glutPostRedisplay to refresh the screen inside my loop so it looks like an animation?
case ' ':
miliseconds = 0;
MoveManY = 0;
start = clock();
i=0;
while (miliseconds<2000)
{
finish = clock();
miliseconds = (finish - start);
Sleep(1);
if (miliseconds<1000)
{
MoveManY=MoveManY-0.02;
}
glutPostRedisplay();
}
break;
glutPostRedisplay does not directly trigger redrawing the screen. It only indicates to the system that the screen needs redrawing as soon as possible. Calling it multiple times in a loop, like you do, actually has the same effect as calling it once. See here for more details.
I cannot tell where the code you posted is called from. However, what you want to do is use glutIdleFunc to designate a method to be called when there's nothing else to do and, in it, do what you need for a single frame of your animation and call glutPostRedisplay once. This will require to move your timer somewhere else.
I found this tutorial to be really helpful with GLUT animations.
Cocos2d offers two ways to let the player jump up, but by using jumpto() and jumpby(), people could not change the position of the sprite any more when it is jumping up.
How to write a method so that the sprite can jump like the "Super Mario"?
Some time ago I contributed some cocos2d code which made CCMove and CCJump actions stackable. See here. Starting from cocos2d 2.1, you can apply a CCJump actions concurrently with other movements.
However, if you want to deeply fine tune how the controls of your game feel, I'd avoid using CCActions altogether and I'd manage the sprite.position directly by processing player input.
you have to check for two condition for making your player to jump, same as in Super Mario.
Condition 1)
Only jump button is pressed at that time in CCJumpTo action you have to give the next position as the current position , height and no. jumps as one.
id jump = [CCJumpTo actionWithDuration:1 position:ccp(player.position.x, player.position.y)) height:20 jumps:1];
Condition 2)
When jump and forward button is pressed at that time in CCJumpTo action you have to give the next position as the current position.x + the distance you want to cover by jump,this will be static all the time , height and no. jumps as one.
id jump = [CCJumpTo actionWithDuration:1 position:ccp(player.position.x+20, player.position.y)) height:20 jumps:1];
And at the end you have to run jump action on player, hope you found this as solution for your question...!!
I have a class named 'Player' where I handle movements, level ups etc in a game I am attempting to create. In the main loop in the main source file I have the keyboard events (Left/Right.) I want the movements to be able to know when your character is venturing past where it's allowed. To answer the problem I placed two if statements.
I am only having issues with this if statement:
else if (sf::Keyboard::IsKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Right)) {
if (Player.getX() > 1279) {
Player.move(640,0);
}
Player.move(0.1,0);
}
No compiling issues. The only issue is, unlike the other if statement, this one doesn't return the sprite to the wanted position. If I lower the if statement to something like 1000, the sprite disappears from the screen.
Any help appreciated.
Player.move(640,0);
Your moving your player 640 pixel on the X-axis. This means that when the player gets to x > 1279, i.e. at the right end of your world, you move the player further to the right. So it disappears.
You might want to use setPosition instead of move here, or simply don't move the player, etc...
I'm using a particles, slightly modified CCParticleFlower with positionVar to be in form of vertical line, from top to bottom. In CCNode update I constantly change the position of the particles from left to right across the whole screen, when it reaches the right side I set x to 0 and start scrolling to the right.
The problem is when I reset the X value to 0, all particles blinks, they disappear for about one frame and appear in the next frame, it causes a nasty flickering effect.
It does not happen when I increment X values by small numbers but when the particle position is reset to its beginning position it flickers, on win32, android and ios. I’m using most recent 1.1 version (master branch)
I recently had something of a similar problem where the particles would jump around whenever their parent changed direction. I'm not sure if it's exactly the same problem, but here's the thread I found that helped with my problem:
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/17167
The relevant post:
I just encountered the same problem and it took me a while to get to the bottom of it, >here's the low down: do not use
[self schedule:#selector(NextFrame:)];
Instead, use
[self scheduleUpdate];
and rename NextFrame: to update:
Using a custom selector schedules your update at the very end of the CCScheduler queue, in other words, it will cause your NextFrame: method to be called AFTER the particle system's update: method, because the particle system schedules its own update method with a priority of 1.
This is not good because the position of the quads for the particles are updated using the current position of the emitter, and then the emitter is moved in your NextFrame: method, which causes all the particles to be moved again because the position of the emitter is really the position of the CCNode that draws the particles.
By using scheduleUpdate, you really schedule your update: method with a priority of 0, which means it will be called before the particle system's update: method and all will be well.
So basically, add an update method to your class and call scheduleUpdate instead of manually scheduling it.