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  • LOL That should have been so obvious to me by now. I'll test it on my end in the morning. Thank you!

  • It's hard to describe the issue so briefly in the subject line...

    Basically, the Pathfinding behavior of the Virus_DoorsAttk object (the attack type for the Virus_DoorsDef object) for some odd reason seeks out the lower-right corner SectorDefense object regardless of the starting point of the Virus_DoorsAttk. The origin point of the SectorDefense object is dead-center and the bounding box is uniform (octagon shape). The Pathfinding cell size is 5 while the SectorDefense object is 60x60. Even with no other objects in the way, the Virus_DoorsAttk object seeks the lower-right corner.

    The event lines in question start at line 153 (group "Blue Attack").

    Here is the .c3p: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O4DTsJaHk33fSkghFSRU0gbQYxAScIC_

    Can anyone see why this is happening?

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  • dop2000 - While waiting for a reply I continued to do some more digging and re-discovered exactly what you just said. So everything is working perfectly now. Thank you, though!

    However, I did not know about the Set Color action within the sprite, itself! Not sure how I ever missed that!

  • I'm trying to set an object to change its color after a random period of time. After such time, it changes to a randomly selected color (yellow, green, blue, or red). I'm using 3 variables on the object and then plugging those variables into an action that determines the values of the Set Color effect. Initially, all values are 0. After that, the only color I'm getting is red even though I've confirmed that the randomly selected color variable and the other color variables are all working just fine. It's the actual Set Color effect that's not registering.

    In the event line where I use the Set Color effect parameters, I have three separate actions for each color parameter of the effect - 0: red, 1: green, and 2: blue - and plug in each of the object's color-related variables to set the effect value. But, as mentioned, the only result I'm getting is RED. Am I doing something wrong when setting the values of the Set Color parameters?

  • Beautiful! Thank you, Ashley!

  • Aaaah! That makes sense. I've checked and rechecked the documentation many times before to see if I wasn't misunderstanding that...

    Is it possible to update the documentation to make this detail clearer? It's always been my understanding that the evaluations all took place in the text box and the operators were essentially use-as-everything-else (if that makes any sense).

    Anyway, I get it now. Thank you both!

  • Oh okay. So, in the text box I would type...

    "text1" | var = "text2"

    .... Correct?

  • I want to use the | logical operator symbol when testing the value of a string instance variable.

    If var = "text1" | "text2"

    However, when I try this, the expected outcome doesn't work.

    I checked the documentation page and it doesn't explicitly state that you cannot use string values but only references numbers.

    Am I correct that | only checks for numerical values and not string? Or is there something else I'm doing wrong?

  • Those uppity triggers, man. You'd think they'd play by the rules. :P

    I think I'll try to adopt your rule about triggers, myself, just to save on future issues.

  • A simple-enough update. Not a problem, and thank you! :)

    Though, I don't see how my logic is off, per se, given that Else conditions - so I thought - only worked in relationship to the previous event condition of the same level. So long as event line 6 was true, Else gets ignored entirely, regardless of what happens later in the sub-events following line 6. But if that's not the case - or if a trigger alters that - then Else events are, to my thinking, not so clear as they should be.

  • I'm working on setting up a custom pause feature built around tracking current and past dt values. This why I will have an easier time - I believe - at controlling what I want paused and what I want to continue to function. (I am aware that there is a way to manipulate the individual timescales of objects, but I seem to remember a long time ago that this did not serve my purposes...it's a bit beside the point at the moment, I think.)

    The issue I'm having right now is that the Else condition event line seems to be activating even when the boolean test condition above it is true. What should be happening is that event line 6 tests if the condition is true. If it's true, it skips event line 8. If event line 6 is false, it skips to event line 8 and runs the Else-condition actions. It's one OR the other.

    But because of the sub-event at event line 7, the sudden change of the boolean value seems to prematurely trigger the Else condition into thinking that event line 6 was false after all. Because the Else checks for the true or false outcome of the conditions laid out in the previous parent event line I would THINK that the change in the value of the boolean in a sub-event wouldn't matter.

    Am I missing something?

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