How do I allow only one click per frame...

[Robotica]

Hello Everyone,
First off much thanks to everyone who responded to my other questions on this forum. My game Future Police is coming out great so far as I have already designed all levels and objects and I am now working on programming. Please see below a couple screenshots of the title page, menu, and two of the 10 stages.

future_police__sample_title_and_menu_small.jpg future_police__sample_stages_small.jpg

I do have a question however, well a lot of questions... on programming certain type of events in my point and click shooter...

How do I allow only one click per frame?? Reason being I want the player to only be able to select one stage on the stage menu screen (as shown in the image attached).

Also, Since I am making an android game... when I program all these "Left Click" events... they will be translated to "tap on screen of your phone" events... correct? I don't see a tap on phone option... I would assume it would be converted to such but you know what happens when I assume...

Another question... How may I be able to have my animation for the stage select occur... then run a "doors closing" animation where doors slide and cover the screen... THEN jump to the stage selected... I would imagine that upon selecting a stage it will jump to that new frame immediately and the user will not have time to view and appreciate the animation/transition to the stage they selected....

I don't expect anyone to hand me anything on a silver platter as I have been at my desk for over 12 hours a day for 2 weeks now... working on this project full time I am learning a lot but still have so many questions... so if someone could just point me to a "Fusion 2.5 Bible" I would be DELIGHTED to read it. Not sure where I can find such thing though.

PS. I am willing to hire a consultant to answer all these advanced questions I have about programming within Fusion 2.5.

Thanks!

[DaveC]

Yes, clicks are converted to touches on touch screen devices, if you want more control over your touch events, you can use the Multi-Touch extension.

To prevent the user from making a second click, the easiest way would be to put an extra Condition on the clicking event. To make it really clear, we'll use counters in my explanation, but you could use a global value or a flag/alterable value as well.

So create a new counter called "Click"

Now, in the event editor create an event

Conditions:
"Click" Counter = 0
+ User Clicks on Stage 1 Button

Actions
Set "Click" Counter to 1
Change Animation to "Doors Closing"

The above event will only be true ONCE, because the click counter = 0 and when the user clicks on the button, it will be 1, so all the conditions won't be met for for the event to be true a second time.

So now you can have another event

Conditions
"Click" Counter = 1
+ Animation "Doors Closing" has finished

Action
Jump to Frame (whatever frame you wish)

To select other stages, you could do the same events except change the counter to 2 (for stage) or 3 (for stage 3)

[Robotica]

Brilliant! Thank you Dave. I believe I do understand your explanation. I, however, would also want a blinking animation between the user selecting the stage and the doors closing... so I assume I would do the same but have it as:

CONDITION:
"Click" counter = 0
+ User clicks on Stage 1 Button
ACTION:
Set "Click" counter to 1
Change animation to "Stage 1 Button Blinking"


CONDITION:
"Click" Counter = 1
+ Animation "Stage 1 Button Blinking" has finished
ACTION:
Change animation to "Doors Closing"


CONDITION:
"Click" Counter = 1
+ Animation "Doors Closing" has finished
ACTION:
Jump to frame "Stage 1"


That sound about correct? I will be programming this all night. haha. Thanks again! I appreciate your response.

[DaveC]

Yep that should work - sometimes Fusion gives some unexpected results using "Animation Has Finished" but in this case I'm sure it will work perfectly.

[Sparckman]

I made a quick example with your pic
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ya can change it to animation is over > next frame

i used a button

[Robotica]

Yeah, sparckman... I was hoping you wouldn't do that... I was actually thinking that... "I sure hope sparckman doesn't make an MFA that everyone will download with my artwork in it."... yup... there it is...

That's why I tried to make my screenshots super tiny at 255 pixels.

Please don't distribute that. Can you please take that down?

EDIT: yeah, sorry to sound like a jerk... just I've been at my desk for 12 hours a day for two weeks now and although I understand when it's released that someone could just take a screenshot and quote/unquote "copyright" my work... was hoping that catastrophe wouldn't happen prior to my release. This just makes it easy wayyy to easy for someone to use my work.

Thanks though.

[aenever]

I wouldn't worry too much, no ones going to rip your idea from the two graphics you supplied. By the way even the small ones you posted could be enlarged by anyone with a basic graphics program. Everyone puts out demo's and screenshots to promote their games these days, whatever your novel ideas for 'Future Police' are - I'm sure they're safe. No one even knows the basic game play you have in mind. Best of Luck, I hope to check out your game when you're finished.

[Robotica]

Okie dokie. thanks Aenever.

[Sparckman]

Yeah, sparckman... I was hoping you wouldn't do that... I was actually thinking that... "I sure hope sparckman doesn't make an MFA that everyone will download with my artwork in it."... yup... there it is...
That's why I tried to make my screenshots super tiny at 255 pixels.
Please don't distribute that. Can you please take that down?
Thanks though.

Yes, the link has been disabled . I hear you making original art work is hard. Did you get it working after?

[Robotica]

Haha. I did. Thank you. I'm using a global value and having it reset to 0 after every level and you return to the selection menu.