Character Weapon Switching on the fly? {With PMO}

**darkmanx_429** · 8th April 2012, 09:20 PM

Does anyone have (or know of) a good mfa example of this? I need a little help with things. I have been working on my fan-game and the main character starts off into whip mode and then after a button press goes into gun mode. The way that I did it was to make two active objects of my main character, one with all his whip movements and then one with all his gun moves. I also made 2 different groups on my event editor, one for whip-mode and one for gun-mode. I assigned a button press and then it switches to the 2nd active object in gun-mode (and in process destorys the 1st active object) and then I just enable my gun-mode group on the event editor. Both active character objects share the same PMO. The problem is that when I try to reverse the method to go back into whip-mode, it doesn't work. I also tried using behaviors and then setting both the whip and gun animations into just one active object but it doesn't work because I can't select any of my custom animations (like the gun-equip animation) while in the behavior editor. I was also thinking couldn't I assign a counter for 1 mode and then when it goes to a certain number after a button press it switches to the other mode and then vise-versa, but I am not sure exactly how to set that up in the event editor..help! I am thinking that there is probably an easier way to do this that I am not seeing....

**darkmanx_429** · 13th April 2012, 05:57 PM

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**Verbage** · 15th April 2012, 02:51 AM

Here's what I'd do. Now I didn't read all of this because it was a bit rambly, but this is what I understood: You need to swap between whip mode and gun mode with your character.

Here's what to do:
1. Use an object that you can set a flag on. Either your character object or a seperate one.
2. Make whatever trigger that swaps the weapon toggle that flag. Active -> Alterable Values -> Flags -> Toggle -> (any number you need)
3. Create a condition for each state of the flag (on or off). Make the actions disable one group of events and enable the other (under system drop down in the actions menu).

Hope this helps.

**darkmanx_429** · 15th April 2012, 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by Verbage

Here's what I'd do. Now I didn't read all of this because it was a bit rambly, but this is what I understood: You need to swap between whip mode and gun mode with your character.

Here's what to do:
1. Use an object that you can set a flag on. Either your character object or a seperate one.
2. Make whatever trigger that swaps the weapon toggle that flag. Active -> Alterable Values -> Flags -> Toggle -> (any number you need)
3. Create a condition for each state of the flag (on or off). Make the actions disable one group of events and enable the other (under system drop down in the actions menu).

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the response. Yeah, I probably rambled on for a bit but I wanted to provide as much info as possible to what I am talking about. I have it set up kinda like you said by using groups. The problem lies when I try to switch back to Whip mode. It doesn't work.I also tried using behaviors and then setting both the whip and gun animations into just one active object but it doesn't work because I can't select any of my custom animations (like the gun-equip animation) while in the behavior editor. I was also thinking couldn't I assign a counter for 1 mode and then when it goes to a certain number after a button press it switches to the other mode and then vise-versa, but I am not sure exactly how to set that up in the event editor..help! I am thinking that there is probably an easier way to do this that I am not seeing....