Change object direction with a click HOW?

[BREK]

Hey people.

I'm stuck on this one. It should be really simple.

I'm wanting to change the direction of the active object when I click on it.

I want it to change the direction by changing the variable and the direction being taken from that. (I have plans to do things with that later on)

What it does is...

Start Frame - Set active to random direction
- Set Alterable Value A to active objects direction value


On Mouse Click over Active Object - Add 1 to Alterable Value A
- Set direction to Alterable Value A

I can't seem to get it working at all.

Can anyone help?

Maybe looking at the file will help?
Change direction via mouse click

[Looki]

What's your problem? Changing the ddirection using a variable?
For that, click on the "Expression" button in the direction dialogue. I'm not sure about its exact name, and I can't access MMF right now. It should be in the bottom right corner of the window.

[Shawn]

You'll have to use the expression editor and retrieve alt value a for the direction in the expression editor. Remember though, the direction values are 0 - 31.

Edit - Looking at your file, you are using the "appearing" animation to change direction. The built in animations are triggered by special events, that one for when the object appears. Try setting the movements in a new custom movement.

[Looki]

Oh, I didn't see that link. :blush:

[BREK]

Ok. I tried my own animation, didn't work.
It was made more difficult by the Neutral group assigned to the active objects not having the new animation selectable.

So I had to change to code over to use the active object alone, and not the groups.

Anyway, It still doesn't work.
I can tell the Alterable Value A is increasing because I've done a test with multiple active objects, and I made it display the Alterable Value of the clicked object in the counter.
I can click on an object to increase it's value, go off and click other objects and come back to it, and it will show in the counter it has remembered the value assigned to it.

So the problem appears to be that I cannot get the direction to update from the variable.

Any ideas?
Has anyone got an example of it working, that I could look at?

[nivram]

Instead of pulling your hair out, could you use custom arrow key icons, or keys to do this. I know this is not in line with what you want to do, but it is better than gagging and choking.

Marv

[Sebaceous]

http://www.easy-share.com/1904912321/Change_direction_click2.mfa

[BREK]

Okay.

Thanks for your help. But....
I've gone and copied what you have done exactly (to my knowledge) I cannot see a single difference.

And it just doesn't work.
I've altered the object I had done to match the code parts etc,
just doesn't work. And I can't see why not.

Can anyone see what "Active" is doing differently from "Active 2" ?

http://www.easy-share.com/1904935194/Change_direction_click5.mfa

[Sebaceous]

I don't know what you're trying to achieve with this "Face Value" thing.

[Shawn]

I fixed it. Just change the arrow animation to the stopped animation. Unless you have a need for it to not play the arrow animation all the time, but here is my edit:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ygq1lj...ck_example.mfa

All I really did is get rid of the appearing animation, and just made that the stopped animation instead.