Hi I'm having some trouble with frame size and position, I have found how to expand a frames with but it seems like the expansion have shifted in a way so that when I run my game I cant reach the top of my game but I can go further down than intended, can I manually move the bounding area that I want to show with toggles or something?
Sorry for strange question I can explain in more detail if needed... Thx // Ed
Hello Eagi,
I would like a little more information so that I may assist. An example of what is going on would be nice.
1. Are we talking about scrolling down and not being able to scroll back up when you change the frame size?
2. You can manually move the bounding area you want to show with events.
I'll add an example of number 2 in a bit.
You can find the example here.
Hi yes I should elaborate launched the question yesterday before hitting the sack so I was a bit foggy while writing...
So structure
1. I create a game and expand the frame area, so that I have more room to work with.
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2. I use an event to make the application window follow my guy around (frame boundaries are bigger than application window)
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3. When I move my character downward he stays centred and the screen starts panning with him.
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4. But if I instead move up, the screen hits a wall and stops panning.
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5. My guy starts walking of screen, despite the fact that the frame should have more to show us above.
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6. So somehow, I would like to get the rest of my frame accessible.
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Hope that makes my plight a bit more clear. thanks for taking an interest. // Ed
Would you be able to upload your project. You can remove any other code and graphics. This is just to see what your scrolling events look like and how you are doing it.
From what I see in the pictures above this should not be happening.
From the looks of it, you're starting your game in the top left corner of the frame, beyond which you cannot access. If you move your player into the center of the frame, you'll have equal movement freedom all around.
Yes, that was just about it thanks, the background that I loaded in tricked me into thinking the frame boundary was larger than it actually was... So now everything has been shifted back into the frame and it's working like a charm, except for that dotted line which shows the starting zone for the window. (I have an event that makes the camera pan with my guy so it doesn't really effect anything but I was just wondering if I could manually shift that box as well?
That dashed line box won't show during run time. The only way to change it is to make your frame bigger.
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Your Frame size is the size of your level.Originally Posted by Eagi
The dotted lines/ 'top left square' is the size and initial position of your Game Window ( the portion of the Frame the user is able to see when running the game, you can change this by going to Application Properties ).
You can make Objects automatically move with the Game Window instead of them having fixed possitions within the Frame ( go to: Object --> Properties --> Follow The Frame[UNCHECK] ).
This is usefull for HUD elements like Lives, Ammo, Energy, Score etc.
Since the 'top left square' is the Game Windows initial position, all of your HUD elements need to be placed inside this square if you want to be able to see them.
Ah that's nice, I thought the box might become irrelevant now that I used the "screen follow" event. Nice to know that it still has some uses.
If you want to have a background that moves beyond the top left corner of the frame you can use the layer object and move the layer around at runtime as well.
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