Actor free roam movement

rjacomen

Ok, I am refreshing my memory on working with actors. I do not want to develop a game with actors, I need to develop an assessment. I need a few things to happen. I have an actor that just needs to move freely on the screen. it can hit invisible walls and just keep bouncing around at a slow rate. If a user touches the actor it spawns another actor in it's place, which I figured out just fine. But I also need it to explode after hitting a certain keyboard key. I am asking for help with allowing actors to move freely. Once I figure that out, I would need it to explode, which I think I saw some videos on that. This is actually being designed for people with disabilities. Any help would be great. Thank you

RThurman

Put a 'Change Velocity' behavior into the spawned actor. Set the direction to: random(0,359)

jamie_c

What RThurman says, and to explode it when touched I'd spawn a particle effect explosion and destroy the actor.

rjacomen

Thanks guys, so far so good. I have the ball moving freely using random. When I move the mouse over the ball it spawns a smiley face. If I move the mouse over the smiley face it destroys the smiley face and spawns a boom image. Is there a way to have it change image when the mouse is on the ball (change to the smiley face), but if I remove the mouse from the changed image it goes back to the original image? Again, thank you guys, exremely helpful

Braydon_SFX

Rule:
-When mouse is inside:
--Change Image.
---Otherwise:
--Change image to regular image.

rjacomen

Everything you guys have posted is perfect and working great. My final question, and sorry to bother. After the explosion I need the scene to restart automatically. The order of interaction, ball moving, mouse over to change to smiley face, mouse over and key a letter, spawn explosion destroy character, now I need it to automatically restart after the explosion and destroying of the character.
Again, you guys rock, thanks for your help.

bjandthekatz

To restart the scene just drag the Reset Scene behavior into the last rule, below all of the other behaviors.

jamie_c

Keep in mind when using the Reset Scene Behavior, you may need to manually reset some of your Attributes as well.

rjacomen

I placed the reset scene after destroy behavior, which is sitting in my main rule, but it than skips the rule of exploding and resets, which is what I wanted, but not to skip the explosion part. Should I create a separate rule for explosion and than have reset at the end of that rule? A rule for switching from ball to smiley, a rule of switching from ball to explosion

bjandthekatz

no, just add a timer. After X amount of seconds, reset scene.

rjacomen

Thanks everyone, looks like it's working exactly as you helped me with. Much appreciated. I'm sure I'll hit you up with more later.