Help My Brain Not Explode

[Fayte]

I'm trying to figure out how to event a scenario where an ominous voice is asking the player questions and he asks them what they are. at this moment I want a three pictures to pop up with their 'description' underneath them like this mock up image I drew in paint.

I want it so that as the player is making their selection they highlight.

I tried looking for a tutorial on this, but there aren't any... so I tried to take what I learned from making an evented CMS and put it into what I needed but I'm not getting good results.

Halp?

 

[Xilef]

What results are you getting with this?

What I'd do is have a page set up the images, then activate a self switch which changes the page to your update loop that moves the selection image based on the control variable and have the control variable change in exactly the way you have it. Then detect when the confirm button is pressed and activate the next self switch and throw in a new page.

 

[Fayte]

So I had that same exact idea and I'm not even sure if I'm doing this right, but I made a separate event that's supposed to just show the pictures.

Then since it starts off in the middle with a highlighted picture I told it what to do depending if the player clicked left or right.

Then assuming the player clicked left first I made this page.

But no matter what I do or what I change I always get syntax error right when the game loads. I turned off the text that's supposed to pop up before all this for testing purposes. It's supposed to lead up to this character selection screen.

 

[coyotecraft]

It might be easier if you used multiple events.
1 event that initializes the Pictures and sets the Menu Index variable. Then erases itself.

The main event , parallel process, is the control event. L R U D buttons increase or decrease the Index variable from 1-3. If if goes over 3 it jumps back to 1. Less then 1, jumps to 3.

Call a common event that updates the Picture Processing.

In this case, when it's not highlighted the picture is scaled down to 75% with a little more than half opacity. (Don't wait for completion)

What it should look like
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1bh1qwgc21qn ... t.avi?dl=0

 

[Fayte]

2 questions;

1. Why is there a wait if 10 seconds?
2. Where is there an 'else' picture movement?

I guess I should have specified that I'm using MV. Not sure if that matters or not.

Edit: disregard question 2.. I didn't see the text below.

 

[Fayte]

Just watched your vid.. that's just what I was looking for!

 

[coyotecraft]

Not 10 seconds, 10 frames.
If the player presses an arrow button, it'll ignore inputs for 10 frames. It's really sensitive otherwise. The computer could cycle through 3 numbers in an instant and you don't know where it'll be at once they lift their finger. This just adds a reasonable delay so that it the player can see it's gone to the next position if they keep holding the button down.

The Else means, it's either highlighted or not.

 

[Fayte]

I got it! It all worked! Thanks, man! I remember when I started using this program as a kid I couldn't grasp variables to save my life, but as I was trying to figure this out.. it all started to kinda just click.

 

[Fayte]

So I figured out how to get it to select a character, but how do I make it so that the common event goes away after the selection was made?

 

[coyotecraft]

I'm assuming you have a conditional branch like:
When Player presses 'X'
SFX - Confirm
Message "Are you sure? Yes | No"
Erase Pictures
Then I imagine you'd follow that by either transfer to a new map or turn a SelfSwitch on and start a different selection process on new Event Page.

 

[Fayte]

Erase picture? Pfft.. I mean obviously. Like.. who wouldn't know to do that.. pshh newbs

 

[coyotecraft]

Oh yeah. Show picture will pin a picture to the screen. For display purposes and stuff. It'll stay there even when you change maps.