Fast Constrain (LinkMachine v2)
Socks
London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
Some of you might remember an earlier tool I made for helping people lock objects together called Link Machine (you can see it in action here: http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/62202/linkmachine/p1 )
. . . well this new project is a greatly simplified version of the same thing, it's simplified in that it doesn't have an interface, you simply do the linking in your scene, so not only is it much faster to work with but it's entirely interactive.
When set up it works like this . . .
1) Drag your Parent object into the scene.
2) Drag your Child actor into the scene.
3) Move and rotate and size your Child actor however you like.
Done ! They are automatically linked together as one object.
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Here's a video of it in action:
And here is the project:
https://www.mediafire.com/?ccf8bpdwknlop8h
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Behind the scenes:
There are 3 game attributes, which track the x position, y position and rotation of the Parent actor (via three constrain behaviours in the Parent actor).
Then the rest of the work is done in the Child actor, it records its own x and y position and its rotation - then applies a little trigonometry to constrain these values to the 3 game attributes.
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Really amazing!
Cheers zweg25.
One obvious use would be to quickly construct complex collision shapes (well, more complex than a circle or a rectangle).
You's simply place your Parent actor into the scene - (let's imagine it's an aeroplane seen from above) - then drag a few Child actors into the scene and size and rotate them to fit the shape of the wings and the body of aeroplane.
Switch off visibility for the Child actor so the instances in the scene are invisible - and give it a rule to check for collisions . . . for example: When EnemyBullets collide with Child then change game.Damage to game.Damage +1.
Wow, that is great! I can't wait to check this out! And nice stick figure too
Cool!
Jamie, I can give you full rights to the stick figure (Mr Magic™) for just $400, PM for details.
Cheers JSproject
Very nice and handy! I think I did something like this in a radar demo a while ago - super cool!!
...I've only got $500...
Great work...and very useful, thank you!
Mmmm . . . just $500 ? For $500 you can have Mr Magic without the legs, and if you need the legs at a later date I can let you have them for $120 each, which actually works out cheaper* for you.
*cheaper than something that costs $741.
Thanks strag
Now that is a bargain!
Here is a Scrolling Menu System I've thrown together using the Fast Constrain file as a base.
This Fast Constrain is really great, it's basically like having a 'Group' function in GS finally!
Download it!
Very nice !
(consider it already stolen and in one of my projects !)
@Socks, glad you like... couldn't have done it without your code base.
@Socks very nice as always. And you reckon you can't code. Dude you are modest. You would pick up LUA in a few hours ... To make it simple it's creating variables and changing them what makes things a little tricky is the math. You have that so you would only need to learn syntax ...
Edit: Nice work too @jamie_c I didn't notice your lovely work till I saw RThurman's post ...
@Socks -- great idea!
@jamie_c -- also great idea!
Wowsers.
Thanks @Socks for share this. Very useful.
@neoman
@Malkovich
@RThurman
@tatiang
Cheers !
@Socks Can you repost the LinkMachine v2 the link no longer works?
I just downloaded it, it worked fine for me, maybe MediaFire's servers were being weird, try again and let me know if you are successful ? If not I can repost.
this really useful, thanks alot!
Cheers !
This is extremely cool, thank you! I'm glad you guys tossed this up here
I was trying to alter the code a little, for something that would fit my project style and I actually ran into a weird issue.
I tried combining @RThurman kinetic scroll with @Socks fast constrain and @jamie_c button list. However, for some reason when I scroll the button list to the very top and then back down, buttons from the top of the list seem to "disappear"...
Is there any way to keep the buttons in their exact position, no matter how far or fast I scroll?
Any help would be much appreciated
Please, see the attached project file, for what I am talking about.
GameSalad kills actors that drift more than 500 pixels off screen.
The actors at the top of the list are drifting more than 500 pixels beyond the top edge of your screen.
A: Make your scene taller.
@Socks Awesome, thank you! Just made the scene bigger and it worked perfectly. I wasn't aware of the 500px rule...
Your videos don't work anymore @Socks
the videos don't work anymore. Please reupload them with a cherry on top
The project is fairly straightforward to use, you can use it without a video, the video just shows it in action.