Transitions

[grizzled nest]

So I've been working on adding transitions to my game between room, follow a tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCwIerWM2iU&t=763s) and I have a door that takes the player to the next room. What I need to add is a way for the transition to happen after every room

There is the script

and

this is what i came up with (it doesnt work)

anyone have any ideas?

[dawn barn]

what event is this in?

[grizzled nest]

oh thats in a collision event with the player, the door has it

@dawn barn you have any ideas?

[dawn barn]

you made sure to do this?

[grizzled nest]

yeah

i did that but i think my code is wrong elsewhere

i can give you the errors

[dawn barn]

if there were errors those would've been very very very helpful from the beginning

[grizzled nest]

Object: obj_door Collision Event With obj_player at line 1 : wrong number of arguments for function room_next
Object: obj_door Collision Event With obj_player at line 1 : malformed assignment statement

oh my fault

[dawn barn]

room_next(room)

not room_next()

[grizzled nest]

wow im dumb

thank you dude

im doing this project for school but the teacher has been out and so i he hasnt taught us much code

wait

it doesnt work

it works for the first room but when i get to the second one it don't work

[dawn barn]

does the 2nd room have a room_next?

[grizzled nest]

hmm

?

[dawn barn]

is there a 3rd room?

[grizzled nest]

yes

[dawn barn]

what does it do instead when it goes into the 2nd room

does it throw an error?

[grizzled nest]

no the player is just static a few pixels above the door

brown square:

well not above but the door don't transport it

[dawn barn]

can you slap a show_message(room_get_name(target_)) in the collision with the player

[grizzled nest]

sure

[dawn barn]

there should be 1 popup that says the 2nd room when you're in the first room

what does the popup say when you're in the 2nd room

[grizzled nest]

umm one sec

i got this at the door in the first room are you sure its (target_) and not (_target)?

[dawn barn]

oh you didn't put an underscore

it's whatever variable you declared

so target

[grizzled nest]

ok

it now says this

[dawn barn]

and make sure the show_message code goes after you declare var target

ok that's correct

press ok

[grizzled nest]

i did

ok

[dawn barn]

and go to room 2

and try to exit a door and show what it says

[grizzled nest]

well

ok doesn't make it go away

[dawn barn]

huh.

[grizzled nest]

maybe because my player is still in contact with the door?

[dawn barn]

that's correct

hmm

well you can change it to show_debug_message

do you know where it'll print?

[grizzled nest]

in the output thing?

[dawn barn]

yes!

[grizzled nest]

ok

so i write

[dawn barn]

show_debug_message(room_get_name(target)) instead of show_message...

[grizzled nest]

yeah

[dawn barn]

ok do that

it should spam room2 for a few times, then go to room 2

instead of a popup

[grizzled nest]

just says a bunch or room 3

i have a room 3 tho

hmm

this is weird

[dawn barn]

ok so it's showing the correct room

just not going there

[grizzled nest]

yes

[dawn barn]

right

now change it to
show_message(global.roomTarget)

[grizzled nest]

ok

says -1 now and asks me to hit ok i do and it asks again

[dawn barn]

oh oops

meant to be show_debug_message

[grizzled nest]

ok

[dawn barn]

so it spams the output

[grizzled nest]

show_message(global.roomTarget)?

[dawn barn]

yeah

[grizzled nest]

umm

hold up

weird

its either sending nothing or more ones than i already got from the first room

and my player is stuck atop the door

maybe the collision system is the problem and not the code

[dawn barn]

question

[grizzled nest]

yes?

[dawn barn]

where do you use Transition_Finished()

is it in the sequence somewhere?

[grizzled nest]

for the sq_fadein at 59 frames

[dawn barn]

ok

can you show_debug_message(global.midTransition)

in a step event somewhere

and watch it

[grizzled nest]

like in a step event of the player?

[dawn barn]

it should be 0 then 1 then 0

yeah player would work

remove the other show_debug_message code in the collision event

[grizzled nest]

ok in the beginning it spammed 0s then the 1s when i hit the door but it didnt go back to 0 thats the problem

[dawn barn]

right

[grizzled nest]

what did i forget

[dawn barn]

can you check sq_fadein again

Transition_Finished() isn't being called

which is what i suspected

the game doesn't know the 1 to 2 transition is done, it thinks it's still going

so it doesn't let the game start going from 2-3

[dawn barn]

are you sure it's not
TransitionFinished()

[grizzled nest]

hm?

whats the difference between what and wha

[dawn barn]

yeah it's not

HMM

[grizzled nest]

could it be something in the script?

[dawn barn]

TransitionFinished is the name of the function
TransitionFinished() is the output of the function, taking no arguments

[grizzled nest]

ok

[dawn barn]

i...don't know

check the tutorial again

[grizzled nest]

alr

[dawn barn]

atleast we know the problem

[grizzled nest]

the tutorial is specifically going from room 1 to 2 or if room == 1 then go to room 2 though

but i'll double check it

[dawn barn]

your room stuff should be fine

var target = room_next(room) should be fine

[grizzled nest]

alright

[dawn barn]

we confirmed that

[grizzled nest]

well i'll double check it might take me a while though

[dawn barn]

right here

[grizzled nest]

yeah im realizing that now

i probably spelled transition wrong somewhere

[dawn barn]

indeed you did

Transititon

@grizzled nest

inside the TransitionFinished function

[grizzled nest]

what

sorry i was eating

oh i see