Posts by falkon

for the collisions, you have one event that says
collison with backdrop> movement stop

since you made the bad and table and such out of actives they are not considered "background" objects by mmf.

In order for this to work you need to make a bunch of

Smiley collides with bed > smiley, stop.

I'm new to extension making, and have been working very hard to try to make a worthwhile extension, but first i need to know what a few functions do...

(1) rdPtr->rHo.hoImgWidth
(2) rdPtr->rHo.hoImgHeight
(3) rdPtr->rHo.hoImgXSpot 
(4) rdPtr->rHo.hoImgYSpot

if (3) and (4) return X,Y coordinates of an object, where would they be located ( for example the top left corner?)

What i am trying to do is to calculate the X of the right edge, The X of the left edge, The Y of the top edge, and the Y of the bottom edge, after the user picks an object with PARAM_OBJECT ( I know about all the stuff dealing with PARAM_OBJECT)

If i cant do that with these functions please list some that would work for that purpose.

Also, i change rdPTR to the string where the object name is kept, correct?

Use all capitol letters...

when i follow the link i get a 404 error, what did you do nifflas?

whilst trying to develope a quick game i came acroos a problem when setting an angle, scaling the active then testing collisions...

In the example there are a few buttons in the upper tool bar, the far left buttons are the only ones that work atm.

Click the button with a line through it, it will create a line with an angle of 0 ( unless you changed it) on your mouse, now use the mousewheel to resize it and place it in the frame somewhere...

now reapeat the process but this time change the angle of the active by clicking either the up or down button, now if you try to scale this piece you will notice that the piece will stop scaling, this is because the collision points get messd up over the active...

I need to find a fix for this without disabling fine detection because that screws everything else up that i am trying to do...

well ya, i wanted to add classic rts controls, you can get rid of that part though.

yes you would, the way i structured it it got the last two things, which is what he wants

if the filename was C:\hi\my\name\is\bob\and\i\like\polka\dot\hippos\yay.mp3

it would return hippos\hey.mp3

if the filename was c:\hi\oh.mp3

it would return hi\oh.mp3

Edit wait i see what you mean

And i havent been clicking for 4 yers for nothing.

i believe what your trying to say is that if you want to return more than the last two file/folder you can but you cant change it dynamically. WELL you are wrong

loops, magical things they are.

so the code would be.

start loop "file name" number of subfolders time
and set counter to number of subfolders.

than on loop "file"> set string A TO
global string A+"\"listGetAt$( "String Parser", listCount( "String Parser" )-value( "Counter" ))

and subtract 1 from counter.

i realise this will create an extra "\" at the first loop, but can easily be worked around. or used, i believe with the Appath$ function

this will return all the subfolders you would like

here is an ol scrolling example i made for a rts i was gonna make (never happened)

it is a bit complicated (maybe) but you can copy and paste the code.

well

thpought id point out a bug, if you press a letter thats in the word like4 times than it will think that you had pressed all 3 of the buttons.

rhis can be very easily don using the string parse object

firstly add the delimiter "\"

then

(something happens here)> set alterable string A to

(copy and paste code if you like)
listGetAt$( "String Parser", listCount( "String Parser" )-1)+"\"+listGetAt$( "String Parser", listCount( "String Parser" ))

we cant help you because we do not have the image files that are supposed to be in the game.

to load images, you need to use the $appath command, this gets the application pathname.

an example if your game's path is C:\documents\game.mfa

than using $appath will return C:\documents

than you can do
Load image> $appath+"\background.png"

as long as the image is in the same folder as the game it will work.

menu-arrange-unlock all

make a start of frame event and add an event under the thing that appears to be a joystick.

select player control and then set key, you will be able to change the keys, after that its self explanatory.

Goto properties, and click the runtime tab (the > arrow). Then un-check follow the frame.

If you are concerned about slowdown you should use HWA

Actually for an extension free-app this way is best, and is not very complicated at all.

Please note, a post like this should probably be placed in the Multimedia Fusion 2 technical support thread because you did not upload an MFA to show as an example.

the BSOD scares me

*crawls into fetil position.

i made an app like this but in batch file...

i got rid of it because it scared everyone that used the computer XD

or you can just use the bounce effect for a bouncing ball, it would be easiest

Well i already answered in gwerdy but i figure someone else might need to use this

use special conditions, click on the execute program

Then execute the program explorer.exe (evaluated pathname)
for the command line type in the folder path (the full path)
then press ok on the next thing.(without changing it)