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PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Help => Topic started by: dbsrb43 on February 13, 2013, 01:25:59 AM

Title: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: dbsrb43 on February 13, 2013, 01:25:59 AM

Like the famous game line runner, I want to make my character jump when I touch the right half of the screen. And slide on the left side.... How do i do this? invisible gui??
How can I make invisible gui?? New to these stuff
Alternatives would be great.
Thanks

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: escpodgames on February 13, 2013, 02:55:43 AM

Easy - Use touch position

Get touch info Action will give you the X and Y position of the touch (normalized)
(the bottom left is 0,0 and top right 1,1)

Float compare - if touch x is greater than 0.5 its a right hand side touch if its less its a left hand side touch.

Hope that makes sence, I can show an example if that helps.

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: dbsrb43 on February 13, 2013, 08:31:42 AM

I'm having a hard time using floats....
maybe, can u make a really simple scene with this??
action could be really basic. For example Umm.. if left side is touched the cube deletes...
I would be able to do it myself from there on..
my email is dbsrb43@gmail.com
If u can screen capture some steps and send it to me, that would be awesome
Thanks in advance

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: escpodgames on February 13, 2013, 07:13:56 PM

Here ya go -

(http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9940/touchu.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/405/touchu.jpg/)

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Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: dbsrb43 on February 17, 2013, 08:23:25 AM

Thanks, get the idea.. but i've made the variable called Touch_x and did what the screencap told me to do....
But nothing happens in mobile.. not getting deleted??
What type of Touch_x has to be?? (in the variable drop down thingy, when created a variable, the drop down to change the type.??
thanks

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: escpodgames on February 17, 2013, 09:21:13 PM

touch_x should be a float ... also just noticed I didn't make the get touch info Every Frame (the tick box at the bottom)

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: dbsrb43 on February 18, 2013, 03:44:44 AM

Hmmm but what is this??/
I've uploaded a video for my problem..

What's wrong??/

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: escpodgames on February 18, 2013, 04:03:15 AM

The only thing i can see is the compare float is above the touch info action ... but that should still work :S

Are you actually trying this on a mobile device? when you said "touch" did you actually mean on an iPhone/ipod/ipad/ android?

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: gamedivision on February 18, 2013, 04:34:39 AM

Guessing without actually testing,I would have an ngui button delete the image and font,using only the collider make it half the size of the screen,then use on OnClick event

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: dbsrb43 on February 18, 2013, 07:23:15 AM

Yes I've tested on my droid and still has a same effect...,

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: dbsrb43 on February 18, 2013, 07:31:51 AM

Can u create a simple scene for me?? I can test it on my device.
That would be nice^^

Title: Re: half side touch to control character invisible gui?
Post by: escpodgames on February 19, 2013, 05:50:52 PM

I think the best thing you could do is go through the Playmaker iOS tutorials, thats where I first started.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD8AAC983AAD87D01

Setting up onscreen debug GUI text is always a good way to test on mobile platforms - touch positions, touch count, playmaker states etc

Take a look and if you still cant get it to work, ill make you a scene (and test it)