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PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Help => Topic started by: xoured on March 27, 2014, 09:52:46 PM

Title: Timed Mouse Click or Finger Press actions in PlayMaker
Post by: xoured on March 27, 2014, 09:52:46 PM

Basically, I was curious as to how you might go about having a similar action to the actions of that in a game like Osu. There is an icon or button that has a perfect time for you to click/press it and a not so perfect time to click/press it. Surrounding the icon/button would be a indicator telling you when to hit it and when the opportune time is. If anyone could provide some insight that would be great.

Title: Re: Timed Mouse Click or Finger Press actions in PlayMaker
Post by: artician on March 27, 2014, 11:05:54 PM

I don't know what Osu is but I get the gist of the mechanic you're after.

For the functionality:
Just animate a float variable over seconds, e.g. 5.0s -> -5.0s. 
Rate the users input in how close to 0.0s their tap/click is.

For the visual display:
A circular button with a secondary highlight "ring" that slowly scales down in size to be the same circumference as the button, using the above floats as a relative touchstone just make sure the visual "ring" perfectly overlaps the circular buttons outline at the same time the float is 0.0s.

Hope that helps.

Title: Re: Timed Mouse Click or Finger Press actions in PlayMaker
Post by: xoured on March 28, 2014, 07:56:27 AM

That helps a lot Thanks also would you know of a way to spawn game objects randomly around the predefined area of your scene?