Multi-touch and improved DIR PAD

[thalesgal]

Hello guys!
I was wondering if there is a DPAD that looks like most mobile games.
I mean, in most games these days, directional pads looks like this:



I searched the forums and only found directional arrows.


And, I would like to know if there is any way to enable more screen touches at a time in rpg maker mv.
Because the way it is, I only could play with just one button at a time. This means that it is not possible to walk and attack at the same time


Thank you in advance.

 

[Aloe Guvner]

I was wondering if there is a DPAD that looks like most mobile games.
I mean, in most games these days, directional pads looks like this:

Are you requesting an image or a plugin? I'd suggest you post in Resource Requests for the former and Plugin Requests for the latter.

 

[Burgerland]

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/d-pad-action-button-plugin-request.48213/

 

[thalesgal]

@Aloe Guvner hello! Sorry, I couldn´t express myself correctly. I was not requesting the plugin or image, I was just wondering if anyone had known of such thing or similar.
Resuming, I would like to know if something like this already exists. Both dirpad and multi-touch. I took a look at google and others researchers but I couldn't find anything.

@Burgerland thanks bro, but that DIR PAD have arrows. I would like a DIR PAD similar to 360 Analog Thumb Stick, as in the picture above.
The reason for this is that this one I´m talking about the player dont need to take his finger off the screen, and press another direction for every move. Just slip between the directions.

 

[Aloe Guvner]

My question is still the same, are you looking for an image? A plugin? Or both?

 

[thalesgal]

@Aloe Guvner I understand, in this case I'm looking for a plugin that allow the game recognize the presence of more than one or more than two points of contact with the surface. Thats it!

 

[Eliaquim]

@Aloe Guvner hello! Sorry, I couldn´t express myself correctly. I was not requesting the plugin or image, I was just wondering if anyone had known of such thing or similar.
Resuming, I would like to know if something like this already exists. Both dirpad and multi-touch. I took a look at google and others researchers but I couldn't find anything.

@Burgerland thanks bro, but that DIR PAD have arrows. I would like a DIR PAD similar to 360 Analog Thumb Stick, as in the picture above.
The reason for this is that this one I´m talking about the player dont need to take his finger off the screen, and press another direction for every move. Just slip between the directions.

I think you can do that with two plugins:
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/mobile-game-user-interface.94196/
Or
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/mbs-mobile-dirpad-action-button.48887/

In this two plugins you can use one image to work the movement of the player.
So, you put any image that you want to function like a dpad.
After that you set this image opacity to 1.
Now you use this plugin:
http://yanfly.moe/2016/04/01/yep-88-picture-common-events/

Then you put your desired image of 360 analogstick and connect it to a common event.
In this common event, when you put up the image of analog go up. And etc.
The thing is, that the two first plugins that will do the movement. The yanfly one will work just for the visual effect.
I think the part that give most job is to define the movement of the picture.

 

[thalesgal]

@Eliaquim thank you, I think those plugins will not allow multi-touch. But I can do a lot of things to improve the gameplay. Thank you for your help!

 

[Eliaquim]

@Eliaquim thank you, I think those plugins will not allow multi-touch. But I can do a lot of things to improve the gameplay. Thank you for your help!

You are welcome!
Sadly I did not see any multi touch for Android yet :/

 

[Isaac The Red]

I think in this case you would have to code such an input into the app that's wrapping your game for android/ios. since in general web browsers themselves only expect one point of click at a time, and usually register 2 points of contact only as a pinch to zoom kind of feature... It's a bit of a hurdle, but that just might mean you shouldn't focus too much on a possible mobile release for your game at the moment. Don't let it stop you from progressing in making your game for PC.

 

[thalesgal]

@Isaac The Red thanks for the clarifications! I'm still halfway through the game development. For now I will leave this subject aside and finish the game. I still have a few months of work haha

 

[Isaac The Red]

That's the ticket, afaik no one has made anything remotely like what your after specifically with rpgmakermv android releases in mind. There might be on screen controller code snippets you can find for android development. Though I don't really have any experience in that department.

 

[Kes]

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[Burgerland]

If you're wanting to move and attack with the same button press, than you can bind attack to walk or make attack happen every frame.

Bind attack to walk like this: conditional branch > when button pressed > character move + character attack. You do this for each direction, so, for example, if you want 4 direction movement than you make the conditional branch four times.

Make attack happen every frame like this: conditional branch > when actor in party > character attack.

If you're wanting 8-direction movement rather than 4-direction movement for touchscreen buttons, than you can use an 8-direction plugin. Then you just get a plugin that lets you use images as buttons, and you can piece a DirPad together using eight images - each image being a different movement direction.

This plugin might also be helpful for making your buttons: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/inde...ttons-customizable-map-scene-interface.56986/

 

[thalesgal]

@Burgerland hello! Thank you for your help! Actually I wouldn't like to attack and walk by pressing the same button, this can get kinda weird and ruin the gameplay. For now I will wait for some improvement in the multi-touch part of the rpg maker mv.

 

[TenTranVN]

@Burgerland hello! Thank you for your help! Actually I wouldn't like to attack and walk by pressing the same button, this can get kinda weird and ruin the gameplay. For now I will wait for some improvement in the multi-touch part of the rpg maker mv.

The real MV hasn't developed well on mobile, it still has a lot of lag compared to PC, this Engine doesn't seem to focus much on mobile