2 hopefully quick questions.

[Jacob_Miller]

Ok, so I'm making a game that is sort of like doodle jump for the ipod touch/iphone, in case that helps. It's not entirely like it, but that's just an example. Anyways, I need for the screen to move upwards when my character is near the top of the screen, but when my character is near the bottom of the screen, it will stay still.

The second question, is how do I get an object to follow the mouse, but not stay exactly on it? I need for my character to follow the mouse, but have a speed limit to his movements. Here's the trick. I need for it to be able to just follow the mouse anywhere(at a max speed), and I need to be able to make it so that the character will only follow the X -axis (side to side, but not everywhere, and still keep the speed max.

Thank you so much for the help!

[dsilvers]

1. When the character gets a certain distance away from the top of the screen (Y Top Frame + 20, or whatever), center vertical frame position from current frame - 1. Of course, you can fill in whatever numbers you want. As long as you don't have code that'll scroll the screen down, it will never scroll down.

2. Depending on your skill with Fusion, you can either say that when the object's X and Y position do not equal XMouse and YMouse, Set Position At 1,0 from itself while looking in the direction of the mouse. Unfortunately this ends up fairly limited and can make for some funky movement when it inevitably does reach the mouse's X and Y coordinates, in which case use the trigonometry functions to calculate the angle and distance the object has to go to get to the mouse (specifically, ATan2 to pull the X and Y coordinates of where it's headed. Look up posts on the trig functions for more info).

[Atherton]

I would recommend checking out the Tutorials link to your right & looking for
the "Platform Games" tutorial by chaos & Popcorn's "All About Scrolling" tutorial
also read the PMO objects help file if you decide to use it.

Here's a example I put together of how i would probably approach what (I think) your trying to achieve

View MFA

the camera movements a bit shaking though

Hope this helps a bit

[Jacob_Miller]

Ok, so I'll try the scrolling one, but I'm not good with the coding (yet), so is there any other way to make it follow the mouse with a max speed, or could you explain the codes I should use more clearly? Thanks!

[Tisnart]

For your second question, you could try this method
Object to follow the mouse Example

[Tisnart]

Jacob, I had never seen that game (doodle jump) before until you mentioned it.
I watched some youtube clips on it and decided to replicate it.

I got the scrolling thing and the bouncing movement of the character all set up and started messing around with my own version.
If you want I post it after I finish messing around with it