Football engine

[Flava]

This is part of the engine which I started - which covers selection of players. MMF runs a loop, calculating the average distance between the ball and each player. After the loop has finished, it is left with the player closest to the ball - and sets a counter to the ID number of that player.

When a player is selected, you can use W,A,S, and D to move around.
To select the player closest to the ball, press the Z key.
Use the mouse to look around.

It's fairly simple - and although there are probably more efficient ways of achieving the same thing, this is how I've done it.

I made this in response to the post made by Rollit - I may add shooting, passing and opponent AI later depending on whether I have time. If you want to do any of those, then feel free to add them on and re-upload the file.

[DavidN]

The concept is interesting - you can probably simplify the picking of the closest player by using an action of the Advanced Direction object.

[Brandon]

The concept is interesting - you can probably simplify the picking of the closest player by using an action of the Advanced Direction object.

With the Advanced Direction Object, it is only two events to find closest (or more if your doing something more complex).

+Always
-Find Distance and fixed of Player to 0,0 from Ball

+Fixed("Player")=Fixed("Advanced Direction Object")
-Give player control

[Flava]

I don't like using extensions. Doing it yourself in MMF is a lot more productive than using a simple event from an extension - I think learning it would probably benefit the user who requested it more in the long term.

But if he'd rather use an extension to tidy up, whatever way is fine for him.

[James]

An extension would be easier and probably faster at runtime, however.

[Flava]

Yes but you don't really learn anything that way. This is just an example file - the person who uses it can feel free to replace the necessary bits with an extension if they so wish.

[Rollit]

Well, thank you for the engine. Now i'll try working on it. Anyway, as i said on the other topic, i'm a total newb with Mmf2, so i want to ask: what do you mean i could use an extension to work on my game? And how it would make the whole thing easier? Sorry for the stupid question.