Hi, I want to make my enemy characters (basically squares) go round in circles constantly. I have four of them in like a circle shape of their own. I want my character to have to dodge in between them. When i put them all on the circular movement only one of them is visible. I think this may be because for some reason they are all underneath each other. Any ideas on how to fix this or do something completely different would be greatly appreciated!
Hi there!
If you are using circular movement, you need to also use the Clickteam Movement Controller extension. With that extension, you can set the starting angle of each of your enemies to be different. This should stop them from overlapping.
But it would be better if you use sin/cos and some math to make them move in circles. There is a great tutorial here: http://community.clickteam.com/threads/60440-Tutorial-Trigonometry-In-Gaming. Once you get the hang of using sin and cos, you can do all kinds of great things.
You can go as Nightsky said (but unless you're Giotto, you may have hard times taping a perfect circle with the mouse)
if you want to use the circular movement as you already tried, make sure all enemies are different instances (cloned, not duplicated)
and change their "starting angle" accordingly, to make one start at different angle from the other, otherwise they'll end up moving as one as you noticed
otherwise you can use some trigonomery for full control, if you need an exampe drop a line!
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Wooooh moment for me - I never used this object before -- cool to know! thx mobichanIf you are using circular movement, you need to also use the Clickteam Movement Controller extension. With that extension, you can set the starting angle of each of your enemies to be different. This should stop them from overlapping.
Schrodinger: it is surprising to hear you say that, but unless you have done your best to avoid built-in movements (like I have done recently), the CMC is basically a must have extension.
yeah, in fact I don't think I'll be using this object,
but the "woooooh" comes out because I sometimes asked myself why some of builtin movements were not customizable in real time
now I have the answer: they are and in almost all runtimes
guess this object lived its deserved glory in times I was far from the click world,
when custom movements could have been less widespread (I guess)
this may explain why I never stepped into it before...
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now, this also explains why there's written "clickteam movement controller - name of the extension used to control this movement"
as last line in any extension movement
never used those much beside quick test / examples
nevertheless I must have been blind
this clearly makes them much more useful...
particularly vector, pinball, spaceship...
anything that would not be customly doable - but hey, this is cool
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cancel pinball - can't be controlled
To make Objects/ Object Instances have a circular movement:
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- Create an Object ( and multiple instances of the same Object if you wish )
- Give the Object 4 AltValues: 'Angle_', 'Radius_', OriginX_, OriginY_ ( remember to set Radius_ to something to get results at all )
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The create theese 2 Events:
+ Start Of Frame
-> Set OriginX_ to Object Xpos
-> Set OriginY_ to Object Ypos
+ Allways
-> Add 1 to Angle_
-> Object set Xpos to 'OriginX_ + Cos( Angle_ ) * Radius_'
-> Object set Ypos to 'OriginY_ - Sin( Angle_ ) * Radius_'
^ This should work and be very flexible
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I realize if not familiar with Sin()/ Cos() or AltValues thismight be more confusing than helpfull.
Ask if your wondering about something, and i or someone will be able to answer your quesionmarks.
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