Event not showing up?

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Started by Gorilladanny 8 posts View original ↗
  1. Gorilladanny
    #1 Source
    So, I am having trouble with an event appearing.

    Here's the order of what I want to happen:

    1. Enter Room 1 with the two events (Event A and Event B not turned on due to Variable 1 being 0.)

    2. Enter Room 2 (which is inside Room 1) and Player speaks to Event C.

    3. Event C sets Variable 1 to 1.

    4. Walk back to Room 1. Event A and Event B are present.

    5. Player steps on Event D.

    6. Through Event D, Event A disappears through Switch 1 being turned on.

    7. Through Event D, Event B disappears through Switch 2 being turned on.

    8. Variable 1 is set to 2.

    The problem:

    Once you reenter Room 1 (Step 4) only Event B appears. Event A is one of my actors, if this affects anything. Both events have the exact same contents, found below.

    Event A and B's Contents:

    1 : (the NPC and actor)

    Conditions: Variable 1 is 1 or above.

    Priority: Same as Characters.

    Trigger: Action Button.

    2: (nothing so it makes it look like they disappear)

    Conditions: Switch 1 is On.

    Priority: Below Characters.

    Trigger: Action Button.

    If you need any more info, I am happy to provide it. Thank you for the help. 
  2. Andar
    #2 Source
    Please post screenshots of all event pages - your descriptions aren't enough to find the problem because they are not containing all information we need.


    Also, you should check if the switches and variables really have the values you assume they have - one of the more common mistakes is to forget another event that changes the values.
  3. Gorilladanny
    #3 Source
    Spoiler
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    There. Sorry for such large images. Sorry if it's a stupid mistake on my part, too.
  4. Peridot Gaming
    #4 Source
    I can't see any images.  Do we have permissions to view them wherever they are?
  5. Andar
    #5 Source
    You've used dropbox for the screenshots, and that is a rather bad choice because dropbox isn't public by default and isn't optimized for pictures either - as a result, the pictures are not visible on this site.


    They aren't even visible when I copy the links out, because you didn't set that part of your dropbox to public.


    Please use a picture site or attach them to this forum (if they are within your attachment limit).
  7. Andar
    #7 Source
    There are two possibilites why the events A and B might not show up - either the switches 4 and 5 are ON, or the variable 2 is zero or negative.


    You now have to bughunt which of those cases is troubling you.


    1) First rule of bughunting is to give EVERY page of EVERY event a DIFFERENT sprite.


    For example, give the second page of Event A the sprite of a torch, the second page of Event B the sprite of a crystal.


    Then playtest again - if the events suddenly appear as torch/crystal, then you'll know that something controlled those switches to ON


    If they don't appear, then you'll know that the variable never became 1 or above.


    As soon as you know that, you can start hunting for the wrong commands that made those wrong values.
  8. Gorilladanny
    #8 Source
    Thank you for the help. It seems Event A's switch was turned on accidentally in another event. Thank you for the tip, too.