Make the player invincible for 1.5 seconds after being hit?

Hello, I would like to know how to make the player invincible for a short while after they touched an enemy. They'll be flashing for 1.5 seconds and cannot be damaged during that time. I couldn't find the answer in other posts about the subject...

Here's my game so far: dropbox.com/s/tutthxjv3of0l ... s.c3p?dl=0

Have a nice day/night!

hiya, you can use a condition so when you get hit during the 1.5 seconds, for example set a variable to 1 then back to 0 after 1.5. Then under your damage event you add the condition when variable = 0, so when variable is 1 during that 1.5 seconds you cannot be damaged.

You could just use another condition in your damage thingy. If player not flashing ( assume that is an animation ) damage = OK.

So as long as it is flashing it will not pick up any damage

hiya, you can use a condition so when you get hit during the 1.5 seconds, for example set a variable to 1 then back to 0 after 1.5. Then under your damage event you add the condition when variable = 0, so when variable is 1 during that 1.5 seconds you cannot be damaged.

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I'm not sure I understand. I did the following:

The save file: dropbox.com/s/j5mna8o404m85 ... 9.png?dl=0

I probably did this incorrectly... The character still can take damage after being hit but it takes 1.5 seconds for the hearts to disappear and the splatter to appear.

You could just use another condition in your damage thingy. If player not flashing ( assume that is an animation ) damage = OK.

So as long as it is flashing it will not pick up any damage

Hello, the character flashing is part of a behavior. When you say "damage = OK", are you talking about a variable?

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Don't use "Wait" action for this! This is a mistake many beginners make and it can cause all kind of bugs and problems.

Use Timer behavior instead.

Set Invincible=1, start Timer for 1.5 seconds.

On Timer event, set Invincible=0

I mean that in your event where you add damage ( I assume it is on collision with enemy/bullet ) you need to add another condition :

In your case if using flashing behavior, just ad player is flashing condition, then invert that ( add it to your event that checks for collisions and ads damage ).

That means even if colliding with enemies and bullets he will not take on damage while flashing

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Game so far: dropbox.com/s/pv31ciycluvco ... 2.c3p?dl=0

Hello, I did all those things separately and even together and it doesn't seem to work (probably did it incorrectly once again. Sorry!). It's so strange that such a basic game mechanic can be so hard to implement. Is it a problem related to Construct 3 itself, by any chance?

Have a nice day!

You forgot to add "Player invincible=0" condition to your "Player on collision with enemy" event on the screenshot.

When invinicble is not 0, the collision will simply be ignored.

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• Health lets you toggle invincibility with a simple action.
• As said previously, the wait action can cause all sorts of problems, the solution is using FSM to create two states: "Idle" and "Invincible", and using a timed transition to go from invincible to idle.

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You forgot to add "Player invincible=0" condition to your "Player on collision with enemy" event on the screenshot.

When invinicble is not 0, the collision will simply be ignored.

Thank you! It worked!!