Make collision work while dragging out objects

Asymptoteell

I am making a game where I drag out rods like in this demo http://gamesalad.com/game/7960

I want the rod to change colors, or spawn a red x or something when one rod collides with another.

It is a physics game so I have game attribute game.Physics. I want the rule to only be active when game.Physics=0.

So I have a rule that says when game.Physics=0 and actor overlaps or collides with actor with tag Physics (the tag for all collidable actors) spawn actor red x.

What happens is when I drag one rod into another, nothing happens until I release the mouse button.

Can anyone help/tell me how to make the x appear before I release the mouse button.

Thanks,

Asymptoteell

AjBlue

is your on collide spawn red X code, inside the rule for (on touch move object)...? thats the only thing i could think of

Asymptoteell

Thanks for the idea, but when I do that, it doesn't work at all because if i've released the mouse, the touch move rule doesn't work, and if I don't release it, the actor doesn't spawn.
Asymptoteell

JohnPapiomitis

Try this. for the move rule have when touch is pressed and when touch is inside. constrain x and y to mouse position x and y.

Then have another rule when touch is pressed and object collides with physics actor, spawn actor.

Make sure its when all conditions are valid.

And put the collide rule in otherwise, you might end up having to take that out, try that first though

Asymptoteell

Didn't work, John.

Now I needed to release and press to make it spawn.

Thanks for the advice, though.

Asymptoteell