GAMESALAD GRAVITY HOW TO

Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.Ī fun, quick, step-by-step guide to creating games with levels, physics, sound, and numerous enemies using GameSalad book. GameSalad has also provided manuals, templates, and a Cookbook containing video tutorials at and. Basic tutorials and terminology are available in the book's Appendix. This reader-friendly, highly visual guide is equally suited for formal game development courses and self-paced learning-with a balance of depth and detail that is ideal for both professionals and those working on their first game. The text's wide-ranging coverage encompasses desktop, mobile, online, social, and serious games-as well as key platforms such as iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and HTML 5. Using techniques based on key game development concepts, current trends, and established best practices, readers will be able to use GameSalad Creator from concept to prototype-and beyond.

GAMESALAD GRAVITY HOW TO

THE OFFICIAL GAMESALAD GUIDE TO GAME DEVELOPMENT teaches readers how to make their own games with the simple, powerful, drag-and-drop GameSalad Creator software. I suppose that there are 'better' solutions, but it works for now. The shadow is a separate sensor actor, as you described, but only for decorative purposes. Friction = Zero, for smooth & fast 'floating'.). I added two different collision shapes with different groups to the player actor: One for the actor (as usual, player group - collides with enemies & tiles) and one for the minimum distance to the ground (hoover group - collides only with invisible ground tiles, layered over the normal tiles. I also disliked my original idea to switch the animations remotely - this could lead to a mess later.Īfter some back and forth, I decided to work with multiple collision shapes on the the player actor (Rider). Yesterday, I tested several possibilities: since my player needs to be affected by gravity, I had no luck with a separate sensor actor (shadow). Your answer was exactly what I was looking for it's good to know that I'm basically on the right track. Thanks a lot for your detailed response, Michael! To get around this problem, I used invisible actors as sensors. You could know if an actor was colliding with another actor, but it wasn't so easy to detect where that hit was coming from. Quote from: Photics on March 23, 2015, 03:18:16 pm Back when I was using GameSalad for game development, we didn't have fancy things like event based collision detection.

However, I find that I have more control and greater accuracy by using separate sensor actors. With Stencyl, an actor can have multiple collision points. It seems like you have the pieces, but how you arrange them is personal preference. (If the hero moves upwards, along the Y-Axis, the shadow could shrink to simulate a third dimension.) The shadow could be a separate actor, with it's position relative to the main actor. If the sensor was touching a wall, then the main actor could do a wall jump.

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Back when I was using GameSalad for game development, we didn't have fancy things like event based collision detection.

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