Moving Route

Hi,

I have Autism so using a forum is quite different for me, mainly because sometimes I word stuff differently to how you would word it so I hope I describe my problem as simply as I can. Thanks.

I'm creating my own game Crystaline, and at the beginning want a character to walk towards the main character and then want them both to walk to a different part of the room. I think it has something to do with routes but hope you can explain it simpler for me :)

If you think you can help me then please post any suggestions you might have.

Thank you,

Miffy6000.

"I have two screenshots of my game below"

Question for you Miffy.  Is your main character standing still?  First make sure you name your events something easy to remember.  I recommend using the characters name so when you want to do a move route you are looking for the name and not "event001".  Setup another event I usually stick my cutscene events in the top left corner of the screen so that I can find it easier.  Edit the cutscene event click on the contents on the event and go to the 2nd tab where you will find Set Move Route.  Choose the route you want your character to make and you may want to check to Wait for Completion.  That way if you have text in your event it won't happen until the route is finished.  Make sure you set this event to be "Autorun".  I hope this makes sense.  Let me know if you need more help. 

Caedmon,

Thanks for your advice. I will check that out immediately and will get back to you as soon as I possibly can. My main character is named Android and the other character is called The Professor. I'll do what you suggest and thanks for taking the time out to help me :)

Oh, and yes my characters are standing still!

Kind regards,

Miffy6000.

Caedmon,

I'm sorry but I'm not quite understanding what you mean. It might help if I start from the beginning, ok so I've got two players Android and The Professor. Neither of them have any events, no actions. Do you think you could literally write out how you would make The Professor walk to Android please?

Thanks.

Sorry for being such a pain. I intend to release this game sometime soon but as you can guess I have only just began, its more complicated than I thought it would be. I really appreciate your help, thanks.

Kind regards,

Miffy6000.

Not a problem.  I was there once.  If you look around I am still asking plenty of questions myself.  So since you are starting out I am guessing this is the first event in them game.  You need to set a position for your player to start out in on your map.  Then set a postion for the Professor to start in, name the event the professor, change the character graphic.  the in the corner create this event.

Thank you so very much. Your solution solved my problem. It seems quite simple now that I think about it. Ah it feels good knowing that that problem is out of my game!

You'll probably see more of my threads for help over the next couple of days. Thanks again ;)

Kind regards,

Miffy6000.

You are welcome.  You can make it as complicated as you want.  you could even have the Professor start off transparent and then appear to be walking into the room.  That would be a good little challenge for you to start off with :)

Hey,

That does sound mightily awesome. If I decided to do that how would I make it happen in my game?

Also, thanks again for your help. I really am grateful!

Kind regards,

Miffy6000.

I would make your event called "The Professor" be a blank graphic to start with.  Put him near and edge of the map or room that you are in.  Then on your move route you can click Change Graphic to make The Professor no longer be a blank graphic.  Have that Change Graphic command come before your other move route.

Hi its me again.

I tried following what you said but for some reason Android moves instead of The Professor. Do you think you could show me an example please so I know what I did wrong?

On my event I have Change Actor Graphic and then Set Move Route. Hope this helps you understand.

Oh and do you think you could tell me how to upload the event page like you did please?

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Miffy6000.

For the event page all I did was take a screenshot of my computer with Ctrl+PrintScreen.  I pasted into GIMP (like Photoshop) and then cropped it to just be the game screen.



I am guessing you changed the Actor Graphic instead of going within your move route and changing the professors graphic.

Hey,

Thanks a lot for your help. I sorted out the issues and it now works perfectly. :)

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Miffy6000.

You are welcome.  Let me know if you need any more help.

I will. Thanks again Caedmon, I really appreciate your help.

Kind regards,

Miffy6000.