I have made a 2D Game using unity in which user has to select objects of similar color and now i want to display hint when user is unable to select the color for more than four seconds.
I want something similar to candy crush hint displaying system in which candy crush shows hint by highlighting the possible combination if user is not able to identify any combination himself.
I cannot figure out how to find if the user is inactive so that i can display hints.
I would really appreciate if someone can help me in figuring it out. Thanks in advance.
I dont agree with Joe Blow on this one that you need to call that EVERYWHERE in your code the user does something. What a user can do is press a key on the keyboard(also count on gamepads and controllers) or move the mouse(on mobile the mouse is simulated so that works too). So if you have a single class that looks something like this :
using UnityEngine;
public class TestInActive : MonoBehaviour {
private Vector3 prevMousePosition = Vector3.zero;
void ShowGameHintInvoke()
{
CancelInvoke();
Invoke("GameHint", 5);
}
void GameHint()
{
Debug.Log("This is a Hint");
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
if (Input.anyKeyDown || Input.mousePosition != prevMousePosition)
ShowGameHintInvoke();
prevMousePosition = Input.mousePosition;
}
}
It should work just fine. This calls ShowGameHintInvoke() once after the user has been inactive for 5 secs. Then it will not call it again until the user does something.
You can use DateTime type and set it on Update, so when the user doesnt do anything, you see all frames if DateTime (now) and the saved DateTime, the difference is more or equal to 5 seconds, there you show.
If the user touches, you flag that the user had done that, so next frame, you will see he didn't touch, and you set again DateTime and start seeing if exceeds 5 seconds.
Do you get what I mean ?
You could use some Coroutines with Yields of 5 seconds (WaitForSeconds) and you put 5 seconds and if it continues the yield, you show hint.
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I am creating this post because I am struggling in a 2D game that I am creating in Unity.
The game keeps scoring the number one once the play button is clicked. It increases the score once the food is collected, but the problem here is that once I click on "Play" button the score is already on "1" instead of "0".
Code in the following statement:
Scoring System
Collect C#
Thank you for your help!
You could do 2 things:
Add a Start() function in Scoring System script.
private void Start(){
// This would make sure that score is 0 from the first frame
scoreText.GetComponent<Text>().text = " " + 0;
}
2)Instead of directly running the code on trigger use tags, assign the tag of Player to your player gameObject, then add this code.
void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{
if(collision.tag == "Player"){
ScoringSystem.theScore += 1;
// Destroy(collision.gameObject);
}
}
So I am animating an avatar, and this avatar has its own animator with states and such.
When interacting with props, the props itself has an animator with states in it. In both case, I transition to some animations through parameters in the animator (bool type).
For example, for a door, the character will have "isOpeningDoor", while the door will have "isOpen".
Now the question: when I change the value on an animator on GO1, and then change the bool on GO2; do the first animation finish and then the second start? Because in my case, it does not happen; they start almost at the same time.
void OnTriggerEnter (collider door)
{
if (door.gameObject.tag=="door")
{
GOAnimator1.SetBool("isOpeningDoor", true);
GOAnimator2.SetBool("isOpen", true);
}
}
I believe that I am doing it wrong, since I change the parameter on the animator, but I do not check for the animation to end; is this even possible or am I doing something not kosher?
I really think it might be doable!
As you have it in your code now, the animations on GO1 and GO2 start at almost the same time because that's how it's written. The OnTriggerEnter() function will complete the execution in the frame it is called, and return the control to Unity.
What I think that might help you are coroutines and sendMessage between gameobjects:
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Coroutines.html
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.SendMessage.html
The idea is to:
Create a coroutine in GO2 that waits an amount of time until it sets the GOAnimator2 variable to activate the door animation.
Create a function in GO2 that calls the aforementioned coroutine
From the OnTriggerEnter() send a message to GO2 to execute the newly created function
It reads complicated, but it's fairly simple. The execution would be like this:
1.Code for the coroutine:
function GO2coroutine(){
float timeToWait = 0.5f; //Tweak this
for ( float t = 0f; t < timeToWait; t+=time.deltaTime)
yield;
GetComponent<Animator>().SetBool("isOpen",true);
}
Code for the function calling it:
function callCoroutine() {
StartCoroutine("Fade");
}
And the code modification for your OnTriggerEnter():
void OnTriggerEnter (collider door)
{
if (door.gameObject.tag=="door")
{
GOAnimator1.SetBool("isOpeningDoor", true);
GO2.SendMessage("callCoroutine");
}
}
I didn't have a chance to test the code, so please don't copy paste it, there might be slight changes to do.
There is another way, but I don't like it much. That is making the animation longer with an idle status to wait for the first game object animation to end... but it will be a hassle in case you shorten the animation because you have to, or have any other models or events.
Anyway, I think the way to go is with the coroutine! Good Luck!
I am using wxTimerEvent() to call a function at a certain frequency. But it does not always call the function as expected.
For example, it works fine for a random time duration, and then it does not call the function at all for a few seconds. SHere is my block of code. Please help me figure out this issue...
class MyFrame : public wxFrame
{
public:
...
void OnTimer(wxTimerEvent& event);
private:
wxTimer *mTimer
wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};
wxBEGIN_EVENT_TABLE(MyFrame, wxFrame)
EVT_TIMER(TIMER_ID, MyFrame::OnTimer)
wxEND_EVENT_TABLE()
MyFrame::MyFrame()
{
mTimer = new wxTimer(this, TIMER_ID)
m_timer.Start(100); // 100 millisecond interval
}
void MyFrame::OnTimer(wxTimerEvent& event)
{
// my logic -this is working fine... just set a flag.
}
Timers are not guaranteed to fire at exactly the specified interval, but for a 100ms timer to not be called for several seconds is not normal at all. I suspect your code doesn't return to the event loop, preventing it from dispatching the timer events. If you're sure this is not the case, you would really need to produce an example reproducing the problem (ideally the smallest possible change to the wxWidgets minimal sample) and open a bug report about it (please be sure to mention your wxWidgets version and platform if you do this).
How do I use implemented Animation in LibGDX? I know, that the documentation can be found here, but when I want to get a frame out of the Animation, I need to use stateTime, which isn't explained anywhere in the documentation. So the question is, what is stateTime in terms of LibGDX's Animation?
There is some more doc on the getKeyFrame method documentation:
Returns a TextureRegion based on the so called state time. This is the amount of seconds an object has spent in the state this Animation instance represents, e.g. running, jumping and so on.
(This documentation doesn't really make any sense to me either.)
But, the Animation.java source is readable. It looks like it boils down to
getKeyFrameIndex
which divides the stateTime by frameDuration (which is a parameter of the constructor -- how long each frame lasts) to compute an array index. getKeyFrameIndex does different things for looping or non-looping sequences, but basically it takes the array index to look up the right key frame in the sequence to display.
So the "stateTime" is the input to pick a key frame from your Animation. The documentation is assuming you have one Animation instance for "running" and another for "jumping" (these are the "states" its referring to). To find the right key frame within an Animation, you tell it how long you've been in this "state". So, if you've been in the "running" Animation instance for 1.2 seconds, it does some math to figure out which key frame to show (say you've initialized the instance with 30 frames that show for 0.0333 seconds and loop -- it picks the 6th frame).
The wiki https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/2D-Animation has some more details and an example, but doesn't address this directly, either.
animationFrames = walkSheetArray[moveDirection];
animation = new Animation(1f / 5f, animationFrames);
myAnimatedActor = new AnimatedActor(animation);
stage.addActor(myAnimatedActor);
public class AnimatedActor extends Image {
private float stateTime = 0;
Animation animation;
public AnimatedActor(Animation animation) {
super(animation.getKeyFrame(0));
this.animation = animation;
}
#Override
public void act(float delta) {
((TextureRegionDrawable) getDrawable()).setRegion(animation.getKeyFrame(stateTime += delta, true));
super.act(delta);
}
}
I am new to game development but familiar with programming languages. I have started using Flixel and have a working Breakout game with score and lives.
I am just stuck on how I can create a new screen/game over screen if a player runs out of lives. I would like the process to be like following:
Check IF lives are equal to 0
Pause the game and display a new screen (probably transparent) that says 'Game Over'
When a user clicks or hits ENTER restart the level
Here is the function I currently have to update the lives:
private function loseLive(_ball:FlxObject, _bottomWall:FlxObject):void
{
// check for game over
if (lives_count == 0)
{
}
else
{
FlxG:lives_count -= 1;
lives.text = 'Lives: ' + lives_count.toString()
}
}
Here is my main game.as:
package
{
import org.flixel.*;
public class Game extends FlxGame
{
private const resolution:FlxPoint = new FlxPoint(640, 480);
private const zoom:uint = 2;
private const fps:uint = 60;
public function Game()
{
super(resolution.x / zoom, resolution.y / zoom, PlayState, zoom);
FlxG.flashFramerate = fps;
}
}
}
There are multiple ways to go about doing this...
You could use different FlxStates, like I described in the answer to your other post: Creating user UI using Flixel, although you'll have to get smart with passing the score or whatever around, or use a Registry-type setup
If you want it to actually work like you described above, with a transparent-overlay screen, you can try something like this (keep in mind, the exact details may differ for your project, I'm just trying to give you an idea):
First, make sure you have good logic for starting a level, lets say it's a function called StartLevel.
You'll want to define a flag - just a Boolean - that tracks whether or not the game is still going on or not: private var _isGameOver:Boolean; At the very end of StartLevel(), set this to false.
In your create() function for your PlayState, build a new FlxGroup which has all the things you want on your Game Over screen - some text, an image, and something that says "Press ENTER to Restart" (or whatever). Then set it to visible = false. The code for that might look something like:
grpGameOver = new FlxGroup();
grpGameOver.add(new FlxSprite(10,10).makeGraphic(FlxG.Width-20,FlxG.Height-20,0x66000000)); // just a semi-transparent black box to cover your game screen.
grpGameOver.add(new FlxText(...)); // whatever you want to add to the group...
grpGameOver.visible = false;
add(grpGameOver); // add the group to your State.
Depending on how your game is setup, you may also want to set the objects in your group's scrollFactor to 0 - if your game screen scrolls at all:
grpGameOver.setAll("scrollFactor", new FlxPoint(0,0));
In your update() function, you'll need to split it into 2 parts: one for when the game is over, and one for if the game is still going on:
if (_isGameOver)
{
if (FlxG.keys.justReleased("ENTER"))
{
grpGameOver.visible = false;
StartLevel();
}
}
else
{
... the rest of your game logic that you already have ...
}
super.update();
Keep in mind, if you have things that respond to user input anywhere else - like a player object or something, you might need to change their update() functions to check for that flag as well.
Then, the last thing you need to do is in your loseLive() logic:
if (lives_count == 0)
{
_isGameOver = true;
grpGameOver.visible = true;
}
else
...
That should do it!
I would highly recommend spending some time with different tutorials and sample projects to kind of get a better feel for Flixel in general. Photon Storm has some great material to play with (even though he's jumped over to HTML5 games)
I also want to note that if you get comfortable with the way Flixel handles updates, you can get really smart with your state's update() function and have it only call update on the grpGameOver objects, instead of having to change all your other objects updates individually. Pretty advanced stuff, but can be worth it to learn it.