SOLVED: Full Screen Touch for Standard Jump Button (w/o Platform Movement Object)

[lokanientertainment]

Hello everyone,

I've been searching and searching for a way to make touching anywhere on the screen (aka mouse click) control the standard joystick button 1 input. The reason I'm going this route is that my game was already complete, physics and all and trying to rebuild everything with the Platform Movement Object would have added a ton of time for one little addition. So this is what I did:

For the Frame Options:
- Under the Android tab, set the Device to: Touch Joystick
- Check: Joystick Button 1

Here is the trick, which I'm sure I'll get a bunch of flak for
- Go in Photoshop, and make an image the size of your screen (important: make the background transparent)
- Add a new layer
- Using the paint bucket, make the new layer entirely black
- Go to opacity, and set that layer's setting to 1%
- Save it as JoystickButton1.png or whatever your preference is

Implementation:
- In your application settings in MMF2, go to the Android tab, then to the Joystick images
- Replace both Fire1 and Fire1 (pressed) to your new 99% invisible image.
- Testing will need to be done on a virtual or real device, but it works! Cool!

Note:
Once the touch joystick option is selected, it will also show the on scree joystick. Be sure to replace both of those graphic files with something small and transparent.

I'm sure for the next project I'll be using the platform movement object but I have to get to other things, any notes/questions/criticisms let me know as I'm sure there are other ways to go about but I just couldn't find an easy way to do so.

[happygreenfrog]

Hello everyone,

I've been searching and searching for a way to make touching anywhere on the screen (aka mouse click) control the standard joystick button 1 input. The reason I'm going this route is that my game was already complete, physics and all and trying to rebuild everything with the Platform Movement Object would have added a ton of time for one little addition. So this is what I did:

Using the Joystick control object:
- Start of frame: Start/Stop joystick button 1 (hide or not)

For the Frame Options:
- Under the Android tab, set the Device to: Controlled by Extension
- Check: Joystick Button 1

Here is the trick, which I'm sure I'll get a bunch of flak for:
- Go in Photoshop, and make an image the size of your screen (important: make the background transparent)
- Add a new layer
- Using the paint bucket, make the new layer entirely black
- Go to opacity, and set that layer's setting to 1%
- Save it as Joystick1.png or whatever your preference is

Implementation:
- In your application settings in MMF2, go to the Android tab, then to the Joystick images
- Replace both Fire1 and Fire1 (pressed) to your new 99% invisible image.
- Testing will need to be done on a virtual or real device, but it works! Cool!

I'm sure for the next project I'll be using the platform movement object but I have to get to other things, any notes/questions/criticisms let me know as I'm sure there are other ways to go about but I just couldn't find an easy way to do so.

Hey, that's pretty clever. I'm glad you figured such a difficult thing out yourself.