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[Kaz]

Hello everybody,

I need an actor to walk around in a circle for a while. I wrote a script that calculates the circle and culminates in an actor.GoTo(x,y); and attached it to a node so I can start the motion at will. To test the algorithm I used Molly, and she more or less did what I thought I'd told her to do :-)

Then I replaced Molly with a single .png and to be sure, I changed all the references in the .actor animations to refer to the same graphic. I changed the LoadActor in Game.script.

But when I click the node, my .png moves slightly and stops. It simply does not behave the same as Molly.

Everything in the two .actor files is identical except for the animation references to my single PNG instead of Molly's sprites. But Molly moves and my PNG doesn't. My .PNG is about 20% physically smaller than Molly.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Kaz

[metamorphium]

can't it be that it walks out of the floor region?

[Kaz]

I doubt it, because it doesn't move at at all, so it can't get to the edge of the floor. In any case, given the same instructions, Molly moves. It's just that my single .png doesn't.

[Mnemonic]

It's because the actor sprites contain the "move X" / "move Y" values for sprite frames, which actually define the walking speed. You'll need to create those sprites for your simple actor, at least one-frame sprite for each direction with the appropriate move X/Y values.

[Kaz]

Cheers Mnemonic. If I understand you correctly, the 'Move By' parameters in the Sprite are part of the movement called upon by the actor.GoTo method to do the movement. So if it's a single .PNG perhaps an actor.SkipTo would be better?

 

[Mnemonic]

Yup, for strictly circular movement without animations SkipTo() should be enough.