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Can someone tell me how to use the "Platform Movement Object" and the "Direct show"? I tried the Platform Movement but I couldn't get the character to move at all really.
With Direct Show, I played an Mp3 in the game, then sent it to my friend to test. He didn't hear the mp3. So I sent the Mp3s with the game, he still couldn't hear it. Please help. =)
I was going to upload a PMO example, but it seemed a bit basic, so here are the events you need:
On start of level, set the PMO's object to the object that you want to control (the player).
PMO: Test for obstacle overlap
+ Player object is overlapping an obstacle backdrop
... PMO: Selected object overlaps an obstacle.
(Personally I think the above seems a bit mad, but that's how it works.)
The rest is pretty self-explanatory - Repeat while Right is pressed: User is holding right input key, and so on. You'll need a couple of counters/detectors to control jumping in mid-air and so on, and mess around with the variables of the PMO to get the feel that you want.
For the MP3 issue, there are really quite a lot of things that could be wrong - I'm not sure about this one.
Alrighty, thanks. And please do make a tutorial if it includes lots of thing. <img src="/center/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
I might have a solution for the mp3 issue:
Have you told MMF where to find the file in form of an absolute or a relative path?
An absolute path looks like this: "c:\program files\mmf2\my files\lalala.mp3"
A relative might be like: "music\lalala.mp3" This means mmf will look for a folder in the
same directory as the exe file named 'music' and then will check the folder for lalala.mp3.
Hope this helped...There are so many possible problems. But I guess this one might be most likely.
Sorry to here about the MP3 not working, sometimes its a codec thing.
Anyway I've added DavidN to the wiki cos I recon your quick explaination is a good answer.
Hey if you do make a tutorial DavidN and post it to the forum could you please link to it in the wiki.
Hey Kelt if you find the solution to the problem let us know how you solved it.
Oh did you look on the old forum?
Appdrive$+Appdir$+"folder/mysong.mp3"
should be better as the relative path <img src="/center/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
All the bonus pack objects come with example files.
There in the examples folder in the mmf2 dir.
Also if you click on the object then in the properties window go to about tab, you can click the help button to get the objects docs.
Also check out www.clickteam.info for some tutorials, i think some one wrote one for the platform movement object.
The state of the path might well be what's causing the problem - I always tend to use "./directory/music.mp3" rather than Appdrive$ + Appdir$, though.
joewski: Thanks, I've gone in to tidy it into something more formal.