Hello there! I’m really close to finishing my classic 2D fighting game, but there’s just one issue that’s been bugging me. See, I’m implementing an ultimate attack system, which is supposed to stop the players from moving, to darken the screen, and essentially play as a cutscene. I’ve written the code for player 1, and it works almost flawlessly, but I’m having issues with Player 2. That is to say that I’m using the same code, but tweaking the variables to suit Player 2.
Through some playtesting, I’ve noticed that the Tween I’m using might be at fault:
This is the P1 code, the one that works really well, and the one I’m trying to replicate for P2.
This is what’s happening for Player 1, which I want to replicate for Player 2. Everything up until the darkening of the screen works, but the rest, from when the sparkle in the eye appears? Nothing.
Am I really missing something? Am I really dense enough to not see something when copying the same code and just changing a few values?
Not sure what’s causing the issue, it can be some other event messing with it.
But since these events run in sequence, you can try merging them into a single event.
Conditions:
h key is pressed
animation of character =/ “EnergyBall”
boolean variable is false
Actions:
change boolean variable to true
put objects on layers
hide objects
set time scale of base layer to 0
tween the SpecialColorTweenable to black over 0.3 seconds
wait 0.3 seconds
create sparkle
change sparkle animation
etc
So instead of checking if tween finished playing, you can add “wait” with the same duration of the tween.
Wow.
First of all, I’d like to thank you both for responding after quite a few days. I was sure that this post had been dead and buried, so I’m really grateful.
First of all, as Phoenix asked, here’s what happens with P2:
It does the first condition/action I ask perfectly, and then it just stops on the black screen.
As for Insein’s suggestion, that’s super clever! I might use that for P1 as well, real concise code! But I tried it on P2, and well…:
It cuts off after the animation is ended, when the event does. So…this leads me to believe that the issue must lie either in the event itself…or something else stopping it from triggering. I might just start looking over the old code, see if some variable somewhere is stopping this from working.
Thanks for the help so far, and if you come up with anything else, I’d love to hear some more input. I’ll update this post once I have time to come up with a suggestion.
Yes. At the moment my plan is to disable the P1 events. See if only one sequence is allowed to run, and go from there. If P2 works, then the issue must be when they’re both coded.
The issue was, yes, because of another line of code entirely. I was just too stupid to notice.
For starters, I’ve coded most of P1 and P2’s actions to stay under a reversed “If Time Scale of layer Base Layer = 0”, so that the players wouldn’t be able to control characters during round countdowns or at the end of a round. So that would mean that code I put under it would only work if the time layer is bigger than 1. And so I took a look at the P2 code:
Y’all see the problem, right?
There’s no way the Special for P2 could’ve worked if it’s influenced by that. No wonder the other code didn’t work, THE TWEENING EVENT LITERALLY FORBID IT FROM SO.
Completely independent of that large time scale condition. And the result? IT ACTUALLY WORKS!
So yeah…I took the P2 code out of that dependant condition, and whaddya know? It actually works now. Wonders, I’d say.
P.S: I’ve implemented Insein’s advice. Now the code’s more concise. Thanks a lot! Thank you everyone!
