Shadow Fawn Games

[boywhoflies]

I decompiled your game and found a missing comma in it! *shot*

[Nobody]

Ergh. After some changes, you still can't move despite the fact that you should be able to. whywhywhy

[boywhoflies]

-voulenteers to look at your engine-

[MyNameIsKooky]

Ergh. After some changes, you still can't move despite the fact that you should be able to. whywhywhy

You have the "relative" box checked in the "if there's a solid collision at relative position (0,1)" thingies in the step event, right?

[Nobody]

Yes.

[MyNameIsKooky]

Can you post the updated pseudo-code?

[Nobody]

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 Step Event:
if relative position (0,-4) is collision free for Only solid objects
      set the gravity to 4 in direction 270
else
      set the gravity to 0 in direction 270
if vspeed is larger than 10
      set the vertical speed to 10

Collision Event with object Metal:
set the gravity to 0 in direction 270

Key Press Event for <Left> Key&#58;
if relative position &#40;-1,0&#41; is collision free for Only solid objects
      jump relative to position &#40;-4,0&#41;

Key Press Event for <Right> Key&#58;
if relative position &#40;1,0&#41; is collision free for Only solid objects
      jump relative to position &#40;4,0&#41;

[MyNameIsKooky]

Looking good, except for two problems.

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 Step Event:
if relative position (0,-4) is collision free for Only solid objects

It should be relative position (0,4), not (0,-4). Negative in the y-coordinates is upwards in Game Maker.

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Collision Event with object Metal:
set the gravity to 0 in direction 270

You shouldn't need to use gravity in the collision events. For collisions with walls and stuff, use this:

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move in direction direction at most 16 till a contact with solid objects 
start moving in directions 000010000 (which is the box thingy in the middle) with speed set to 0

I'd be happy to just take the .gmk file for you and fix it, but I can't access my computer right now because I'm backing up all of my stuff (I'm using my mom's computer right now).

[Nobody]

Since there's barely anything in the GMK as of now I decided to post it freely.

[Nobody]

Since there's barely anything in the GMK as of now I decided to post it freely.

[DEEMAN223344]

IMMEDIATE PROBLEM
DON'T use the "Press" events. Use the normal ones.

[DEEMAN223344]

Fixed it. It was a lot of fun.

[Nobody]

Eh, I still can't move while on the ground...?

EDIT: Oh, you didn't actually fix it. Now that I did... I still can't move. Huh.

[MyNameIsKooky]

Here's your de-bugified thingy.

If you want him to jump lower or fall faster, experiment with different values of gravity and vertical speed in the step and spacebar events respectively.

[DEEMAN223344]

Eh, I still can't move while on the ground...?

EDIT: Oh, you didn't actually fix it. Now that I did... I still can't move. Huh.

Yes I did. I even tested it.
Edit: I actually forgot to save.

[Nobody]

Eh, I still can't move while on the ground...?

EDIT: Oh, you didn't actually fix it. Now that I did... I still can't move. Huh.

Yes I did. I even tested it.

In that case maybe you uploaded the wrong file.

[Nobody]

DP.

Erm, how do I put the text engine from the ET5 topic in and how do I control what it says?

[MyNameIsKooky]

Erm, how do I put the text engine from the ET5 topic in

Put all of the code and sprites from the engine into your game.

and how do I control what it says?

Edit the code that's in the create event.

[Nobody]

I don't understand. Why doesn't my headshot work???

[Nobody]

oh nevermind my game maker got closed without saving stuff so now the text engine and dialog is gone so i'll have to bring it all back before i fix the problem

[MyNameIsKooky]

I don't understand. Why doesn't my headshot work???

Be more specific. Is the sprite you're using 32x32?

[Nobody]

Erm, false alarm. The stuff didn't get deleted. Anyways, I changed it to 32x32 from 32x33 and it still doesn't work.

[MyNameIsKooky]

It's supposed to be 32x32.

And what do you mean by "it doesn't work"?

[Nobody]

ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object obj_type:

Error in code at line 32:
img[1] = spr_lorgo
^
at position 2: Unknown variable img or array index out of bounds

[MyNameIsKooky]

The first index should be 0, not 1. It should be like this:

str[0] = "BLAH BLAH BLAH"
str[1] = "BLAH BLAH BLAH
str[2] = "BLAH BLAH BLAH*"

img[0] = spr_bob
img[1] = spr_joe
img[2] = spr_alex

name[0] = "Bob"
name[1] = "Joe"
name[2] = "Alex"

Also, make sure you actually have a sprite named "spr_lorgo" (without the quotes).

[Nobody]

It is like that, only the other character has no headshot.

[MyNameIsKooky]

You need to have all of the arrays defined and the headshot sprites need to exist, otherwise it will get an error.

[boywhoflies]

It's supposed to be 32x32.

If this means anything, I'm using 34x34 or something like that for Circuit and it looks fine.
I knew it was intended to be 32x32 when I did that, though.

[MyNameIsKooky]

It's supposed to be 32x32.

If this means anything, I'm using 34x34 or something like that for Circuit and it looks fine.

Unless you look closely and realize that it's 2 pixels too big.

[Nobody]

Now none of the variables can be found. I added an even that makes them, but the text and box aren't getting displayed.