Introduction:
Welcome! I'm here to introduce you to a new tutorial series. These tutorials will be for beginners, not experts, so don't expect anything fancy like auto-stereoscopic 3D without a special display (or 3D at all).
Anyway, this tutorial will talk about the MMF2 interface. Yours probably doesn't look like mine, since I've re-organized everything to be as compact as possible so that I can see as much as possible, but you can still probably tell what toolbar is what.
#0: Start by opening MMF2/MMF2DEV.
#1: Click the "New" button, or press Ctrl+N.
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This button, by the way...
#2: Click the button labeled "1" to go to the frame editor.
Now you are in the frame editor. I won't explain what all of the buttons do right now, but I will tell you how to insert an object into the frame.
#1: Right click.
#2: Select "Insert object".
#3: Select the object you want to insert. (I recommend that you insert an active object, as that is what I will talk about.)
#4: Click anywhere on the white area to place it.
You have now inserted an object. Congratulations! Now to learn how to make it move around.
#1: Click on the object.
#2: Select the tab with a picture of a blue running guy.
#3: Click on the thing that says "Static" that has a picture of a stop sign to the left of it.
#4: Select the movement you want to use. I recommend that you select either:
Bouncing ball movement,
Eight directions movement,
Or Race car movement.
After that, run the frame.
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In other words, click the one highlighted in blue, or hit F7.
If you selected bouncing ball movement, the object will fly off of the game/application. If you selected one of the other two I recommended to you, then you will be able to move the object with the arrow keys, but it will be able to move out of the game/application.
The fix isn't very hard, so hang in there for this one last part.
#1: Go to the event editor.
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Either click the button highlighted in blue, or press Ctrl+E.
#2: Click on "New condition".
#3: Right click on the diamond.
#4: Move your mouse over the sub-menu labeled "Position".
#5: Click on the item labeled "Test position of "Active"".
#6: Click on all of the arrows that point away from the big button in the middle, then click okay.
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Like so.
#7: Right click the box underneath the diamond.
#8: Move your mouse over the "Movement" sub-menu.
#9: Click either "Bounce" or "Stop". (If you are using the bouncing ball movement, select bounce.)
Now run the frame.
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Recognize this?
Now it should work much better. To save, click on the little floppy disk in the upper-left corner, or press Ctrl+S.
That is all for now!
To recap what you learned:
You learned how to create a new game/application.
You learned how to insert an object.
You learned how to go to select a movement for an object.
You learned how to start the frame.
And you learned how to stop the object from moving out of the game/application window.
The finished file is attached, by the way.
Any questions, comments, or requests for the next tutorial in the series? Post all of those in this thread.
