Carry a Object

Hi I'm new to Construct and I have been having a little trouble trying to figure out a way to have my platform character carry an object over his head. I want him to be able to carry a object that he is overlapping when the player presses a button, and then when the button is pressed again he will throw or drop the object.

I tried searching the forums but I haven't found an answer yet.

So whatever you think the best way of handling this is please let me know. Thanks in advance.

In its simplest form you want to be looking at using a flag variable like "Carrying" to see if you're carrying something, and use a private variable as a flag for instances of your objects you want to carry.

To pick up an object:

Button Pressed

+Carrying is 0 (false)

+Overlapping object

---PrivateVariable=1

---Carrying=1

To drop an object:

Button Pressed

+Carrying is 1 (true)

+PrivateVariable=1

---PrivateVariable=0

---Carrying=0

---[Update object with new position coords]

And use an Always to position object above player:

Always

+Carrying=1

+PrivateVariable=1

---[Position object above player]

You can improve it by making sure that you can't pick up whilst overlapping more than one object, and you can't drop whilst overlapping another object.

Krush.

Thanks a ton for your help I'll give it a shot.

Edit: This worked out really well, thanks.