How to track the direction the player is facing

[Sednaiur]

Hello. I search for a way to track in which direction the player is facing when triggering an event.

In my case, I have an event resprited as a tree that activates on action button press and I like it to let the player perform a moveset from another player graphics sheet to let it look like he is chopping down the tree. Well, just making a *poof*-effect or something like that does not cut it for me.

How could I accomplish this? If this needs a plugin to be performed, I have access to the whole YanFly library if that helps. And if not, I would be willing to get the plugin needed for such action.

I am grateful for any offered help.

 

[ShadowDragon]

if you want to make that action, create a conditional branch.

if player facing left
do stuff
end
if player facing right
do stuff
end
if player facing up
do stuf
end
if player facing down
do stuff
end

while this is the basic stuff, but its also good for signs, when facing down
you cannot read the sight, if its facing right or left, you cannot either,
but only when you in the front (facing up).

same idea goes for those, but it's doable

 

[Sednaiur]

Yes, something like this is what I have in mind but where do I find those actions? I checked all 3 action pages for events and there is no such thing like if player facing left etc.

Edit: xD Yes - here I go again. Please nevermind my brain flatulence as I just found it. Thanks a lot anyways. You made me realize where those conditions are.

 

[Andar]

@Sednaiur just one additional tip, because if you haven't seen the conditional branch options, then most likely you haven't seen the full power of control variable either.

open the control variable command in any event, switch to "game data" in the lower section, the one that defaults to Map ID.
But instead of accepting map id, click on the three dots at the right end of that "Map ID" line.

in a lot of cases those two commands are used together, with the control variable command for loading game data and then conditional branch to check what the game data in the variable is.

 

[Sednaiur]

@Andar Thank you for the tip. I took a closer look onto what you said and yes, I can imagine the possibilities. I have not yet gotten to the point where I needed something like that but when I need it I will remember about it.
But how I could miss those "player facing XXX" options is really beyond me. I am trying to emulate the mechanics and behaviour of an SNES-game and so far I have to say it works a whole lot better than I would've expected. Just those simple options that I missed. xD

Also, I don't know if it is against the rules to ask this in the same thread, but I like to know if there is a way to offset the graphics for a player somehow. I need to shift the graphics down by 48 pixels just during the animation I can accomplish using the above eventing, or the downwards facing graphic will look off on my animation. Is that possible?

 

[Andar]

the sprites are always bottom-centered on the event frame if they are larger than 48x48 pixel.
that means you can only trick and shift into the three other directions, but not below.
for that you'll have to use another event one position below of the current position.

 

[Sednaiur]

Yes, I guessed so. I could use the tree-event that is supposed to be chopped down to display the missing 48 frames. I guess I'll go by that.

Thanks for the help and suggestions. My questions have been answered and solved.