How do I create wind blowing an object

First of all, I want to make a random wind in x seconds that will blow the Player and make it swing for y seconds.

Means, every x seconds, wind will blow for y seconds. Anyone can teach me how to write the event or any other things I need to know?

Have you looked into the Physics object yet ?

emoaeden I'm trying to put Every x seconds, Player->Apply Force Y-> (duration), how do I make the wind apply force towards the player for y seconds?

You could try making a variable for your *y* seconds and remove 1 every second and set it to 0 when it goes below 0 then all you would need to do is set it to the ammount of seconds you want it to last when the conditions are right.

Sorry erm could you pls clarify it?

Ok here's an example I hope its better explained this way.

Basically I made a global variable "WindTimer" and set it to 0 as my default.

in

System every 1.0 seconds I'm removing 1 from WindTimer

Also I set my timer thisway to prevent negatives

System WindTimer (les than or equal) 0 | Set WindTimer to 0

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So lets say every 5 seconds I set my WindTimer to 8 (so that you will be recieving wind for 8 seconds

if my WindTimer is greater than 0 | apply force 200 at angle 180 at image point 0

I hope it answers your question. The Capx should be a bit clearer since you can see it in action.

[edit] as a side note it probably would be wiser to change the 5 for a 10 and the 8 for a five so you don't have overlapping "perpetual" wind like in my capx

Good luck

I like how the user with the answer is Ragevortex! Seems very fitting. Also, I like this concept of something blowing against the player/object.

punkineo heh funny... I see what you did there with the name and the wind

I remember back in the megaman days one of the stages (wind guy who I cannot remember the name of stage) there was a gust of wind that blew the player backwards at certain time intervals. If you were caught jumping at a bad time you got swooped into the emptiness below. I'm not sure if that's what Serge Low wants to do but I still hope it helps.

Ragevortex thanks for answering my question! It's very kind of you to explain so detail to me, thanks again.

And I also want to ask another question, how to reset the time to 0 everytime i restart my layout? Means that some event like Time>5s | an action will be done, but sometimes when time is passed 2s and i restart my layout, so the next action will be 3s later happen, so how to reset the time to 0 everytime i restart?

It is my understanding that everything or mostly everything gets reset when you restart layouts however for cases (like in the game I'm making) in which i want to have absolute certainty and control I usually have something like this setup:

Global variables:

MyTimer = 0 (original value of the variable)

Events:

On start layout | set MyTimer = 0

...

This way I make sure that it's always 0 when I restart that layout.

Remember if you have a text field or something displaying your time value you have to check that is correct too.

I hope this helps you a bit its not much different than what i posted in the capx originally.

Their is a option to reset global variables when your layout restarts in the system section of the events. It is under add action, Global & local variables, reset global variables

Ok thanks guys! ^^