I'm new to MMF2. I am creating a soccer, World Cup game. On one frame, I want to be able to select my country and have it pop up on the next frame, which is the playing field. Also, can MMF2 generate an object with AI capabilities, so that one player can play against the computer? If anyone knows these answers, I would greatly appreciate it if you replied.
(P.S.- Does anyone know how to go about creating a tournament ladder?)
Words of advice-
~Start out with something smaller
~Do some tutorials on the tutorial page
But if you must know, you could make each team a global value (or string or something) and then in the next frame, load the field of the two countries. eg. Italy vs France = 1:
*France is selected
*Italy is selected
-Set global value A to 1
*Whatever starts next frame
-Jump to frame (Global Value A)
Must be a better way than making so many doggone frames, but I'm not the one who would know
Yes, start smaller. Note that that doesn't mean you can't make a soccer game, but try to do a very simple one to start off. Once you know how to actually make a soccer game, you can make it so you can pick teams, have seasons, tournaments, etc.
To answer your question, here's an idea. Keep it mind though, I haven't tried it, so it may not work. Also, I'm a bit of a novice myself, so there's probably a better way. Use a plain rectangle for every player. That's it. It'll make collision detection smoother AND you can make it invisible AND put any sprite you want over it. So you could use global values, as Ricky said, but instead of making a new frame, simply make it so that if Global Value A is 1, then the sprites for French players will appear over the rectangles, using Global Value B for the other team, I guess. You will have to make them perform animations manually, which isn't too hard if you use qualifiers. Try the tutorial on 'Custom Movement Systems' on the Clickteam website, which shows how to use a plain box for the player and put a sprite over it during gameplay. As for AI? Man, I have no idea. I'm still struggling to get enemies in a basic sidescrolling game to work well.
If this is all Greek to you, then... yeah, you'll have to start smaller.
Here's an idea for AI. This is the perfect instance to use Biezer Curves. Have defensive and offensive players. The defensive ones will try to always be in between the goal and ball, but they will move slower than the ball. When the ball comes within range, have the defensive player use Biezer Curves to move to a certain side of the ball and kick it away. The offensive players will be using the Biezer Curve much more. They will always try to get to the side of the ball that lines them up with the goal. If another player has control of the ball, the offensive player will shift its focus to kicking it to the side of the player. When the offensive player gets within range of the goal, it will make a shot by finding the spot in the goal farthest from the goalie and shoot at it.
That's how I would sum up your AI without actually programming anything. It really doesn't look all that hard.
EDIT: You may also want to make the offensive players avoid players on the other team. Just shift their focus slightly left or right depending on which side of them has more players, and when a player gets too close, the offensive player will try to keep the ball away from the player instead of heading for the goal.
Thank you all sooo much for the info. I couldn't figure out how to do the AI, but I was able to figure out a way to make the team I wanted pop up on the playing field using global values.
Here's another delima if you want...
The soccer game that I'm creating is a platform game. Is there a tutorial or something that will teach me how to create gravity? Or do any of you know? I've seen the platform object on the objects list, but I have no idea how to use it.
If anyone could tell me I'd greatly appreciate it.
If you want the easy solution, click on your active object that you want to move and select the platform movement in the runtime properties.
For the advanced solution, have a look at the platform object example file located where you installed MMF2.
This tutorial may also be useful: http://www.clickteam.com/eng/resources/fastloop_plattutorial.zip
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Conor - A side Scrolling Soccor game? Never heard of that before.
Why not make it a Top Down 2 player game, Human VS Human, then at least you get the idea of how to build up a game, with scores and everything.
I just assumed the game would be top-down when I was describing the AI to you.
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