How to make your own characters work during animation

ingamez

Hello everyone, I am going to try and explain this as best as possible. I HAVE ATTACHED AN EXAMPLE FOR MY QUESTION.

I am trying to make it where the smiley face (see attachment) when gets hit by an object will end the game. BUT my problem is the white around the circle, I have made it transparent and it blends in with the game background, but when I drag the smiley onto the background in the box of the scene it does not outline the smiley as a circle but a box.

If someone can take the time to download this attachment and just drag it onto the black box scene you will see exactly what I mean.

CHECK OUT THIS LINK:
http://learn.gamesalad.com/course-status/

If you checkout this video the guy pulls a submarine on the scene, and as you can see on the video only the submarine is being pulled out instead of a box surrounding it (like in my image).

Click on the ABGG: 09 Images video and you will see exactly what I am describing/asking.

Please if someone could help.

Thanks!

tatiang

You can set an actor's collision shape as a rectangle/square or a circle. It sounds like you need to set it to a circle.

You can also do custom collisions if your image shape is not a perfect circle.

ingamez

Really? How do you customize a collision? I thought GameSalad only lets you create collisions that are square, rectangular, and circle shapes?

Icebox

@ingamez You have to use a tool for that , gamesalad supports physics body editor ( free but requires java ) or Physics Editor (20 $)

This is a link to the gamesalad cookbook custom collisions

http://help.gamesalad.com/gamesalad-cookbook/2-making-it-better/custom-collision-shapes-2/

There are 2 videos that can help you , thanks to Armelline and Lost_Oasis_Games

• This is a tutorial on Custom Collision Shapes using Physics Body Editor (free)

-This is for Custom Shapes using Physics Editor (paid)

I hope this helps

jamie_c

Really? How do you customize a collision? I thought GameSalad only lets you create collisions that are square, rectangular, and circle shapes?

This recently changed with an update to Gamesalad. As mentioned above you can now use a 3rd party tool to create custom collisions shapes.

ingamez

Icebox, your video has made it possible for me to customize my own collision!!! Thank you so much!