Select different Players/plane in Flying Dog

[redrory]

Good day guys,

 

I'm customizing Flying Dog, I've gone throught the tutorials and documentation.

 

Still a bit unclear on how to implement something.

 

After the round ends, when I click restart. I want another plane to be used for the reminder of the game.

 

I know I have to add it to assets.js, and then objects.js under this.sprite.

 

However I'm not sure how to enable the new plane on a button action or restart.

 

On restart button click - it's loads game.system.setScene(SceneGame);

 

So I was trying to however load another scene, however I think that would be overkill, all I want is a different player/sprite for the same scene.

 

Any assistance would be much appreicated.

 

 

Cheers

[enpu]

You can set global variables to scene object, like this:

game.SceneMain.player = 1;

And then use that to change your player sprite, something like this:

// Restart buttonrestartButton.click = function() {    // Switch player variable between 0 and 1    if (game.SceneMain.player === 0) game.SceneMain.player++;    else game.SceneMain.player = 0;    game.system.setScene('Main');};// Player spritethis.sprite = new game.Sprite('player' + game.SceneMain.player + '.png');

Did that make sense to you?

[redrory]

Hey,

 

Thanks for your reply,

 

I have a high level understanding.

A few questons:

 

When I try to set the global variable - SceneMain or SceneGame

game.SceneMain.player = 1;

I get the following error - Cannot read property 'player' of undefined

 

Also the player sprite line - is that handled during scenes or objects?

[enpu]

Your error means, that there is no game.SceneMain object found.

 

Create your scene, before defining variables to it:

game.createScene('Main', {});game.SceneMain.player = 1;

And the player sprite line is for Player class (found inside objects.js).

[redrory]

I beleive that I already have created or using the default scene in the flying dog code (in scenes.js).

 

Do I still have to create?

[enpu]

Make sure the scene name is correct, if you create scene named Game, then the object is game.SceneGame etc.

[redrory]

Hey,

 

So I fixed that undefined erorr.

 

I've added the Sprite code to objects.js, my issue is that it doesn't seems to be incrementing by the time it gets to the new or restarted scene.

 

I've added the global variable game.scene.player = 1; to my objects.js right above where I add my sprites.

 

My question is - in my restartButton, when I increments how does that ++ value reach back to my sprite to then show the new player.

 

scenes.js

this.restartButton = new game.Sprite('media/restart.png', game.system.width / 2, game.system.height / 2 + 225, {            anchor: {x:0.5, y:0.5},            scale: {x:0, y:0},            interactive: true,            mousedown: function() {                game.analytics.event('restart');                console.log('Before number ' + game.scene.player);                game.scene.player = 1;                if (game.scene.player === 0) game.scene.player++;                else game.scene.player = 0;                game.system.setScene(SceneGame);                console.log('Random number is ' + game.scene.player);            }        });

objects

   game.scene.player = 1;        this.sprite = new game.MovieClip([            game.Texture.fromImage('media/player' + game.scene.player + '.png'),            game.Texture.fromImage('media/player' + game.scene.player + '.png'),        ]);

[enpu]

Don't put your variable in game.scene, that is cleared every time you change scene.

[redrory]

Removed it, however still not incrementing the sprite number.

 

To me, it seems that I should be passing the incremented value somewhere in setScene

game.system.setScene(SceneGame);

[enpu]

put your variable in game.SceneMain.player

[redrory]

I have to ask, while file would that be in?

[enpu]

In your code above, replace game.scene.player with game.SceneMain.player

[redrory]

When I do that, I get the following :  Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'player' of undefined

 

As i assume I don't have scene by that name.

 

My scene name seems to be game.scene - as I use the following to add buttons to it.

game.scene.stage.addChild(box);

I'm thinking do I have to create a SceneMain scene or can I use the one that I have below?

[redrory]

Hey,

 

So I've created another scene, pretty much by copying the default scene.

 

So on my button click I'm now loading that different scene, which is half the problem however, I'm still unsure how to load a different sprite within that new scene. Mostly because objects aren't handled within the scene.js but within objects.

 

I'm not even seeing, where I'm calling my sprite from scene, for me to me able to call a different one.

[redrory]

Hey,

 

Got it working, in a hackish way.

 

Thanks again