Is there a way to test to see if an actor is touching a color?

Dr_Chow

So I am making this game, and the player is flying through obstacles and can't touch them. The obstacles are all connected. Actually it's just kind of one huge thing you have to get through, anyway, if you touch it you die and start over. But, the actor covers the entire screen, even though only part of it is actually visible. So the player is always touching it no matter what.

So is there a way to test to see if my player actor is touching a certain color? Because I don't know how else to make my game work. Thanks!

Also, if you are familiar with programming on Scratch there is a "if touching color [color]..." block. So that is where I'm coming from.

Socks

Hold the Line ?

AlchimiaStudios

Gamesalad does not have real time color sampling if that's what you mean. But your question is very vague so... we can't really give you a solution. MY best guess is you'd want to use multiple actors for collision detection, pixel position detection, or a magnitude radius in this case.

Braydon_SFX

I guess you could detect an actor tag - so all of your red actors are in the "RedTag" group?

zypp1

hi mate hope this helps

create game attributes

red
green
blue

and in the (different coloured actor that gets touched) add rule

if overlaps with the (main actor )

timer after 0.1 second

change attributes
game. red
game. green
game. blue

to

self.red
self.green
self.blue

then in the ( main actor ) that touches other colours

create self attribute

red
green
blue

and add the rule

if actor overlaps or collides with actor type/name = (coloured actor name)

timer after 0.3 seconds

change attributes
self. red, green blue

to

game. red, green,blue

then you can add a rule that detects the colour in the main actor

something like

if attribute

self. red,blue,green = 1 ( this is dependant on the colour i.e in the colour section of an actor)

then destroy actor ext

hope it helps bro

zypp1

plus just re read your post and it seems you made a whole level on photoshop say and want the actor to only collide with the floor for instance that is black if this is the case game salad does not work this way you gotta place an invisible floor that an actor can collide with over the photoshop image if you get my drift