Another complicated(?) eventing question

[Tindy]

Everyone's played Megaman or some variant, right?

So how would I event the megaman-style selection screen? Where there's 8 items to choose from around a circle ala The Brady Bunch and by pressing the direction pad you change your selection, and use action button to select.

Right now I've got the choosing part solid - I can go through the options like a pro. Looks pretty nice too. The issue is coming from the actual get-to-the-place-you-selected selection process.

Each directional icon is set to Player Touch, and as you touch it it transports you to an event on whichever side. The event you land on isn't supposed to do anything except direct you to the stage of your choice at the press of the action button; however, it doesn't. I've tried player touch with a conditional branch (If Button C is pressed, then: Transport), but no dice; I've tried just plain old action button, and yes I did try autorun and parallel process (that one worked! But only for one stage. No matter where I was. XD)

Any ideas?

 

[Unka Josh]

Would you mind posting screenshots? That would make it much easier to diagnose the problem.

 

[Avgen]

I've never played megaman, so i dont know what you are trying to say. But if i understand correctly of what you are saying, it's a circle menu that appears around the character which you are looking for?
In that case, it is a script and not an event, thus you've posted in wrong section.

 

[Tindy]

Blue = Player Touch directionals
Red = Sends player to upper right square to start
Yellow = Choice event (doesn't work)

I'm 99.9% certain that it can be done with events, the only question now is how.

 

[Unka Josh]

Well, actually, what I meant was screenshots of the code that you're using.

 

[Tindy]

oooooooooooh sorry

They're super easy. Each of the directionals are just

Player Touch->
Transport player to [the action event in whichever direction]

And the action event (which I deleted) was literally just

Action Button->
Transport Player to [the selected map]

or

Autorun->
Conditional Branch: If C button is being pressed, then: Transport Player

 

[Unka Josh]

Don't even consider the Autorun option. That will work badly for you.

The Player Touch option should actually work fine, but to be sure, I'd like to see screenshots of the actual event code. Debugging needs the real thing, rather than a description.

 

[Aevin]

Um ... Doesn't the "Player Touch" trigger require that the player manually be moved onto the event using the directional keys? If I understand the situation correctly, setting the trigger "Event Touch" instead of "Player Touch" might solve your problem. Event Touch would make it so that coming into contact with an event via another event's commands (such as transport player) makes the event run.

For example ... If I have two transport events set to "Player Touch" and the first event transports me onto the second event, the second event will not transport me from there unless it's set for "Event Touch".

Edit: Although I'm puzzled why plain old "Action Button" wouldn't work ...

 

[Tindy]

EDIT: Aw, nevermind. I fixed it. It all boiled down to a tileset issue. D: