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Name:	Ty Newton
Date Posted:	Jan 13, 2007
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Well I've run into my next challenge: adding multiplayer to my very basic pong game. I've been modifying the StarterGame project and thought I was doing pretty well. I use a tilemap for the level design and two bat sprites and a ball sprite. For some reason the bat sprites don't collide with the tilemap tiles that make up the sides of the game play area - I'll have to look into that further. But my real concern is trying to get 1 bat to be controlled with the arrow keys and the other bat controlled with the WASD keys.

I added the MovementComponent to both bat sprites. I assumed that TX would instantiate 2 MovementComponent objects and I would have to setup the code so it could work out which bat its owner was. This doesn't work; even though the owner object that is passed into the MovementComponent class allows it to determine which bat is its owner. It seems my assumption was wrong and TX only instantiates 1 MovementComponent object. I'll double check this in the forums.

BTW my last blog post seems to have disapeared. I wonder what happened to it...

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Jonathon Stevens (Jan 13, 2007 at 06:42 GMT)

Interesting. I'm going to assume MovementComponent is derived from TorqueComponent. I'm also going to assume you've added both of these components through TGBX to each paddle individually.

With those assumptions, and the assumption that you set up the component correctly, each owner will have it's own instance of the movement component. Post your component in the forums and what behavior you're experiencing so we can better assist you.

David Montgomery-Blake (Jan 13, 2007 at 08:06 GMT)

Your "Not so easy" post is still there. It just moved off the main page because other blogs were released.

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