sorry if the title didn’t explain it properly, i just didn’t have enough space to write
basically i’m making a silly little platformer game and i want a dust sprite to appear, rotate, move in a random direction (via force) and gradually fade out whenever the player jumps from the ground. i’ve accomplished this after some trial and error, but i’ve noticed an issue- when there’s two or more dust sprites existing at once, the latest one stops doing any of that… it just appears, and slowly fades out (i have the fade out in a separate “repeat for each instance of dust” event, without any "trigger once"s, so maybe the trigger once is the problem? i need it to make it work properly though, so i can’t get rid of it. i tried doing that and the dust just appears for one frame and disappears after… maybe because it’s forcing the dust a certain distance infinitely or something? i even changed the force from permanent to instant)
hi, thank you so much for responding! i tried this, and the game stopped working. as in, the intro doesn’t play correctly and doesn’t continue into gameplay… it just gets softlocked. i’m really not sure how that happened, but it did. the game works fine when i disable these events though, except for the dust of course
That’s strange this worked perfectly for me, although in my test these were the only events so it’s possible something else in your events is interfering, do you mind posting all the events? If you don’t want to go through the hassle of making this work, I’m sure there are other options, but from what I saw when I ran these events it worked exactly as you described as what you wanted.
it seems to work fine when i test it on its own in a completely separate area, so it must be something in my events indeed
…sorry in advance for my terrible grasp on coding in general
these events just make it so little tutorial button thingies show up when you’re near them and disappear when you leave. there was probably a simpler and more concise way to do this, but it works so it’s fine
and here’s the dust…
(i changed a few of the values but i doubt that’s what’s causing it)
and don’t mind the variable weirdness, it’s the only way i could find that makes it so that you don’t create dust when double jumping after falling off a ledge
You could try disabling these events and see what happens. If that doesn’t do anything I’m curious does the intro only stop when the player jumps?
I’ll be honest I didn’t expect for the intro to be so long and intricate, so I might not be the best person to troubleshoot this, hopefully someone with more experience can take a look at these screenshots and deduce the exact problem more accurately.
i tried this, and instead of the intro softlocking, the screen just stayed entirely black… this is so weird.
i read that the pick object extension might not be compatible with older versions of gdevelop so maybe mine is outdated? but that’d be weird because i tried this on the online version of it and the same thing happened
and, to answer your question, the intro stops here (when the intro variable is set to false)
ah that’s alright, i think i found another way anyway! not quite sure how it worked out but i just deleted the pick first dust conditions and left the actions as is and it works now? maybe it’s something about how the dust is deleted when the tween ends?
edit: uh oh, the game freezes as soon as joey hits the ground in the intro now. i didn’t change anything and it just started happening
edit 2: never mind, i accidentally set the tween to rotate on the Z axis in my 2D game :')
