#GAMESALAD ACTORS ANDROID#

#GAMESALAD ACTORS ANDROID#

Where you start of a little to the left and walk right and the second Mario enters the center of the screen, the camera follows him from then on.Since the launch of the Apple App Store in 2008, games have been one of the most downloaded categories of apps for iOS devices, the same holds true for the Android App Stores. Wherever your character starts on the screen, the camera will follow it when it passes through the center of the screen. Since Gamesalad only can have one camera at a time, and you character is the only one with the control camera option applied it will follow him and only him. or drag the control camera block, which as by the type box is statet possible. Second and last step is easy, just go under your character and in (type or drag in a behavior block) you type control camera. Each of these needs to be pulled to the center of the camera view so that you get a little grey 'cross' in the center and from the center to the boarder there will now be this highlighted color. In the center of each of the sides of the highlighted rectangular which is the camera screen, sits 1 little grey rectangular. So what you first have to do is click the camera button, then the rectangular camera screen will show itself as marked. To the left of this button there is a button that looks like a little video camera, it changes the camera settings. In top of the Gamesalad Creator there is a play button, which you probably know, displays your progress. I'd post an image, but alas my Karma isn't large enough right now! Hence the large explanation! This will stop the actor from going beyond one side of the screen, now copy the rule and amend the settings to that if the actor goes less than, say 10, it will constrain the actors X position to 10. Select the greater than symbol ('>') and then enter the maximum width of the screen minus whatever border value you want, so I'll use 1014 (1024 - 10).ДЇind and drag the Constrain Attribute behaviour into your rule a set the actors X position to 1014. Next select the attribute to use the rule against, since we're interested in the x-axis we'll want to query that player attribute which will be: The click on the 'Create Rule' button on the top right.ДЄ new rule window will appear, but default the first dropdown will say 'Actor receives event' change this to 'Attribute'. So to stop the actor moving off either side of the screen you'll need to do the following: The first thing to know is your screen size for an iPad I believe it's 1074 along the x-axis. To stop the player actor from moving off screen you can use a combination of Rules and the Constrain Attribute behaviour to achieve this. In my opinion the better way is to use the given behaviours in Gamesalad itself. Although this works, it's a little cludgy and using additional actors in a scene take a little performance away from your application. You'll create a few instances of this actor to create a walled area for your actor. What you'll do is create a new actor, and set it to collide with the actor that your controlling. You can do this is two ways with GamesaladДЎ - create an invisible barrier for your actor to collide againstДў - use a behaviour to prevent your actor from going beyond the screen boundary What you'll need to do is restrict the actors movement to the boundaries of the current screen. 1 - when you press your touch controls the actor disappears from the screenДў - when you press the touch control the actor moves along the x-axis and out of the screenДЇor the sake of argument I'm going to assume that we're talking about number two.

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