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Hi all,

Is there trick to make the Message.cs work? I imported the message.cs to a project, won't compile. I created a new message.cs and pasted the contents of the original .cs file, won't compile. I think I read every post on message boxes, still lost. Saw the messagebox with character, but not ready to add more variables to my existing problem of not being able to display messages. There is no Showmessage or any other message functions added yet, just the message.cs in the Source code section. Do I need to declare the added code somewhere? Do message boxes need their on layer?

Thx

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d:\Documents and Settings\bernapau\Desktop\SGDK212\Library\Projects\Tutorial_1\SpriteBase.cs(2092,11) : warning CS0219: The variable 'result' is assigned but its value is never used
d:\Documents and Settings\bernapau\Desktop\SGDK212\Library\Projects\Tutorial_1\GameForm.cs(118,7) : warning CS0618: 'System.Windows.Forms.Form.AutoScale' is obsolete: 'This property has been deprecated. Use the AutoScaleMode property instead.  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=14202'
d:\Documents and Settings\bernapau\Desktop\SGDK212\Library\Projects\Tutorial_1\GameForm.cs(177,11) : warning CS0168: The variable 'coopCode' is declared but never used
d:\Documents and Settings\bernapau\Desktop\SGDK212\Library\Projects\Tutorial_1\Message.cs(82,13) : error CS1501: No overload for method 'DrawText' takes '6' arguments

Hi Vincent,

I love all this head banging prevention from the forum. It's so easy to get bent on finding a solution, only to find out one doesn't exist or you are looking in the wrong direction for the solution. I was thinking maybe make a couple blank frames in the cannon ball animation(so far I haven't got the timing right) or doing an offset or last thought, redraw a dynamic turret on top of the old turret after firing. I'll take a look at you game, nothing like learning from example.

Thanks

Back from Turret town!

I was stumped for 2 days, almost gave on the turret tracking dream. Then I decide to add movebyvelocity to see what the turret would do once in motion. It worked perfectly except for the fact it was following me. So I added a rule to reset pixelX and pixelY. Voila turrets that watch your every move. As GetPolarStateByVector describes, you have to setup the first state in the sprite as right, each subsequent state counter clockwise. The order in the sprite state window matters! 8 states or 72. Right 1st, DonwRight at the bottom of the list.

Then it was time to Fire! Well the cannon balls only went right??? So I set the cannon balls up like the turret with some minor differences. You don't need to reset pixel X and Y since we want them to move. They also needed 8 states, even though they were all the same frame, to fire in the 8 different directions. Didn't make sense to me at the time, but if you used the missiles from the 3D space ship demo, you'd would want the missiles pointing in the same direction as the turret barrel. Then I used PolarAccelerate after the initial PushtowardsCategory, to stop the cannon ball from following the player and continue on straight path.

Once that was all done, I decide to add a second turret and realized, my hard coded X and Y would be a problem, so I changed the rule to get the original pixelX and Y before any other rule and copy it to a parameter, then pass it back just after GetPolarStateByVector rule. Now they are self contained. You can add as many turrets(sprites) as you want, just include them in the Manage Cannon Plan firing sequence.

Then I was on a mission... again... I added the explosions on contact, destroy breakables, collision test with player and health counter. Almost feels like a game! AWESOME and Onwards!!!

Bluemonkmn, can a post the turret test project somewhere? It's about 700KB.

Cheers

Hi all,

great forum, SGDK rocks!

Ah the challenges of being a noob! I'm trying to get my turret to track me, like it is watching me until I'm close enough for it to fire. ie: if player1 is left and higher than the turret point UpLeft etc...  automatically changing states based on the player location. I tried with rules like if Player X< Turret X, changeState left. Am I banging my head against the wall trying to do it with rules? I get it to work for left, UpLeft, right and UpRight, but adding Y just locks the state to the Up, since player is usually higher than the turrets Y and there is no rule for inbetween angles. I used PushTowardCategory, that made my cannon balls heat seaking missles. Woohoo!

I see atan seems to be the way to figure out the right angle/radian. Is there a built in function or do I have to write one? If I have to write a rule/function, should I do export as something like CustomTurret.cs with my current rule, then replace it function using atan. My math isn't great so go easy on me!

Also is c# Express the way to go as far as editing .cs files? I see you can open projects in Express, can you compile them as well? Any special setup required?

Newest Noob - MJRNightmare! Thx