Help: Achievement Notification

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hello there,

I would like to know what is the best approach in this kind of instance. If you played “Subway Surfers” they have set of achievements where you have to fulfill a certain condition to unlock it. And when that happens, the game have some sort of pop up above the screen where it tells what achievement you finished. My problem is I want to re-create that pop up above the screen event.

Temple Run have it also(not sure though), Zenonia 1-5 uses that method too.

Any suggestions is very helpful.

And If you know how to do it, please tell me how.

Thanks in advance,

Jam

#2

If you are using storyboard then you can use storyboard.showOverlay()

#3

Firstly Thank you JonPM for the reply.

Yes, I do use storyboard api, but I don’t know how to do the transition effects. Like it slide from the top, and after 5 sec it will go up again.

Everytime I do the showOverlay it always go in the middle of the screen.

#4

I think you might be more referring to Game Center achievements. There is a tutorial on this that was very helpful:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/01/17/tutorial-game-center-integration-ios/

#5

Thanks for the reply Panc, I’m only building for Android(I know it sucks, i’m just a student and I do not own the fancy Mac T.T)

#6

I don’t understand what you want exactly.  Can you please make your question clearer?

#7

Since you’re only developing for Android, Rob put together a great tutorial on Google Play achievements:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2013/06/25/tutorial-introducing-google-play-game-services/

#8

With storyboard, you could use a “slideDown” transition.  In the enterScene() function add a timer that would call storyboard.hideOverlay() after a few seconds.  There is a bug in hideOverlay though that it doesn’t do any transitions away.  We are fixing this in storyboard 2.0 but it’s not quite ready yet.

I however would not add the overhead of a storyboard scene for this.  It’s easy enough to create a display group with your achievement information in it, position it off screen at .x = 0 - 1/2 height of the group, use transition.to to slide it down.  On it’s onComplete, run a function that starts a timer that calls another transition.to to move it back off screen and potentially destroy it in an onComplete function. 

This would be hyper easy to put into a small external module too.  Hmmm idea for a blog post…

#9

Thanks rob! that does the trick! but when the the overlay is shown and I quicky press a button that goes into a next scene, the achievement pop stucks on the screen. I even put storyboard.hideOverlay() on the exitScene of both scene(the one that calls the pop-up and the one that I go to), but no effect.

#10

Make sure you’re display objects are in the overlay scene’s display group.  Look for errors in the console log.

#11

Thanks rob! I forget to remove the display group when they exit, thanks :slight_smile:

#12

If you are using storyboard then you can use storyboard.showOverlay()

#13

Firstly Thank you JonPM for the reply.

Yes, I do use storyboard api, but I don’t know how to do the transition effects. Like it slide from the top, and after 5 sec it will go up again.

Everytime I do the showOverlay it always go in the middle of the screen.

#14

I think you might be more referring to Game Center achievements. There is a tutorial on this that was very helpful:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/01/17/tutorial-game-center-integration-ios/

#15

Thanks for the reply Panc, I’m only building for Android(I know it sucks, i’m just a student and I do not own the fancy Mac T.T)

#16

I don’t understand what you want exactly.  Can you please make your question clearer?

#17

Since you’re only developing for Android, Rob put together a great tutorial on Google Play achievements:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2013/06/25/tutorial-introducing-google-play-game-services/

#18

With storyboard, you could use a “slideDown” transition.  In the enterScene() function add a timer that would call storyboard.hideOverlay() after a few seconds.  There is a bug in hideOverlay though that it doesn’t do any transitions away.  We are fixing this in storyboard 2.0 but it’s not quite ready yet.

I however would not add the overhead of a storyboard scene for this.  It’s easy enough to create a display group with your achievement information in it, position it off screen at .x = 0 - 1/2 height of the group, use transition.to to slide it down.  On it’s onComplete, run a function that starts a timer that calls another transition.to to move it back off screen and potentially destroy it in an onComplete function. 

This would be hyper easy to put into a small external module too.  Hmmm idea for a blog post…

#19

Thanks rob! that does the trick! but when the the overlay is shown and I quicky press a button that goes into a next scene, the achievement pop stucks on the screen. I even put storyboard.hideOverlay() on the exitScene of both scene(the one that calls the pop-up and the one that I go to), but no effect.

#20

Make sure you’re display objects are in the overlay scene’s display group.  Look for errors in the console log.