Looking for a special isometric movement system

[Mr_Grey]

Hi! I'm looking for a very specific isometric movement system (8-directional) for a vehicle system in my game.

It has to have the following features

• isometric movement that can be turned on and off through a script
• poses for each direction

Basically, I want the vehicles to move in 8 directions, not the player. The only way the player can move in 8 directions is by jumping in a vehicle and taking off. Also, I would like to have each direction to have its own sprite pose (eg: if the vehicle is facing North-East, a North-Eastern facing pose is shown)

To help illustrate the point, here are some example pictures.

http://images.cjb.net/fb9b0.png[/img]
as you can see here, the player on foot can
only move in the four standard directions

http://images.cjb.net/4b588.png[/img]
but when the player enters the car, he can
move in 8 directions, each with their own pose.

I don't need any sprites, just the system, I have the sprites already made up.

Any help with this would be absolutely great as I am really REALLY stuck.

 

[Mr_Grey]

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[Mr_Grey]

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[AbyssalLord]

I'm not very familiar with script, but is it possible to use an eight directional script that's already made, and just use a script call to activate/disactivate it?

 

[Mr_Grey]

i have tried this with Derwulfman's script, and Dubealex's script, and it dosen't work that way, for some reason or another it just stays on 8 directional movement even when its turned off.

 

[AbyssalLord]

Ok, what you should probably do is create an "if" statement around the entire script.  If a certain switch is on, the script will activate.  Just leave nothing under the "else."  I tried it myself, but as I've said, I suck with script (I always get error messages).  If you know how to indicate a certain switch, you're set, though.  Good luck!

(btw, how do you specify a certain switch?)

 

[Mr_Grey]

$game_switches[i]

i would imagine, where "i" is the event id. Im gonna test this out and see if it works, if it does, i'll post it as a script in the submitted scripts section.

 

[Mr_Grey]

Well, I got it half working, mind you I haven't implemented the different poses yet. I kinda ran into a problem if anyone knows how to fix this. (It could just be bad scripting on my part)

in Game_Player, after this:

case Input.dir4
  when 2
     move_down
  when 4
     move_left
  when 6
     move_right
  when 8
     move_up
  end

add this:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------
# * Edit by Mr_Grey, Switchable multidirectional movement
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
if $game_switches[1] == true
  if Input.press?(Input::DOWN) & Input.press?(Input::LEFT)
    move_lower_left
  elsif Input.press?(Input::DOWN) & Input.press?(Input::RIGHT)
    move_lower_right
  elsif Input.press?(Input::UP) & Input.press?(Input::LEFT)
    move_upper_left
  elsif Input.press?(Input::UP) & Input.press?(Input::RIGHT)
    move_upper_right
  end
end

To switch over to 8 directional movement, switch 0001 has to be on, you can change this to anything you like, just by editing the number in the brackets after $game_switches.

The problem now is that when the player moves diagnonally, he moves all choppy, in a series of jerks. (Try it out, you'll see what I mean) As this is for a vehicle system, and moreover an automobile system, this just isn't gonna cut the mustard. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can get this to run smoothly?

 

[Prexus]

Better than using that, use

case Input.dir8

 

[Mr_Grey]

with Input.dir8 i can't get the 8 directional movement to switch on and off

 

[Mr_Grey]

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[Mr_Grey]

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[Mr_Grey]

Guess I'm getting no help on this one whatsoever. Moderators, close this topic (sigh)