Constrain one actor to another

bkhoward2001

I have a situation where I need to spawn an actor that will travel across the screen; however, I need to spawn another actor which stays right below the first actor....Any ideas how I would do this? thanks.

tatiang

There are many tutorials for this if you Google contrain actors gamesalad. But here's the basic method:

In the spawner actor:
Constrain attribute game.leaderX to self.Position.X
Constrain attribute game.leaderY to self.Position.Y
Spawn actor [follower]

In the spawned actor:
Constrain attribute self.Position.X to game.leaderX
Constrain attribute self.Position.Y to game.leaderY-75

Notes:
Game.leaderX and game.leaderY need to be real attributes. Obviously, you can use any value in place of 75. If the spawner actor always has the same Y position, you should use Change Attribute self.Position.Y to game.leaderY-75 instead within the spawned actor. It's best not to have too many constrain behaviors in use.

Bunker

you should check out that Guru's vids for beginners - helped me out a lot at first!

thanks guru!

https://www.youtube.com/user/dsouza41

bkhoward2001

Thank you... Will try.

Socks

@bkhoward2001 said:
Thank you... Will try.

This might be overkill, but could be useful.

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/75220/fast-constrain-linkmachine-v2/p1