Tilebased movement

[Rabagast]

Hi!
I have a question that is a littlebit difficult for me to explain, but I will give it a try.

I walk pixel for pixel to for example left. When I change the direction to up or down, I don't want the player to change the direction before the new tile starts.

Hope you understand me. If you have played Dig Dug before...well, it's excactly the same movement I need help with.


Thanks

[nivram]

I believe the "Grid Based Movement" example on my website can do this.

(open Source)

[uprize]

it sounds like you want to move in a grid? So when you press left, you walk 16 pixels left, and if you press up, you wait until you finish moving the 16 pixels then move up.

Is that what you wanted? If so, simply create an active object +/-16 x or y from where you want to move, and move you character i pixel at a time until it is in the same position as the active.
Hard to explain right now, but there are numerous examples around somewhere

[Novabrain]

There is a widget that does that, too. See if it helps you at all:

Grid Based Widget

[Rabagast]

it sounds like you want to move in a grid? So when you press left, you walk 16 pixels left, and if you press up, you wait until you finish moving the 16 pixels then move up.

Is that what you wanted? If so, simply create an active object +/-16 x or y from where you want to move, and move you character i pixel at a time until it is in the same position as the active.
Hard to explain right now, but there are numerous examples around somewhere

Almost correct!

When I press left, I walk 1 pixel left of the tile that is 32x32. And when I press up, the player wait until the player finish the tile (32x32) then move up.

[Shawn]

I tried making a tile based movement, but the problem I had with how i was coding it that the player would move in a stop and go fashion, if that makes sense. Like I would move, player would proceed to move to the next tile, then there would be a brief pause before they moved again.

I tried making a continuous movement, but when I did that, it messed up the calculations for where the player is supposed to stop and I had the player moving past where they were supposed to go. I'm sure it was a problem with my coding however. If someone has an example of a grid/tile movement where you can move in a continuous manner without pauses I'd love to see it.

[nivram]

Shawn, I have one on my website ("Custom Grid Movement")

[Shawn]

Shawn, I have one on my website ("Custom Grid Movement")

Okay thanks! Sorry I've checked out some of your examples but I forgot the Custom Grid Movement example lol. I'll have to do that

[Rabagast]

I don't think nobody understand excactly what I mean.
Take a look at this online game of Dig Dug.

http://www.heavygames.com/digdug/showgame.asp

As you can see the player is moving 1 pixel at a time, but if you click at the up button when you walk left or right, the player finish the tile before he change the direction.

So the question is: Does somebody know how I can fix this in MMF2?

[Jacob]

There is a widget that does that, too. See if it helps you at all:

Grid Based Widget

Look at the code. You can quite easily apply this to a platform engine if that's what you need.