I have been fiddling with GM7 for a few hours now and understand a few basics but when I attempted to make a Diablo II style situation I ran into some important obstacles and major issues.
I Made a wall of rocks all around the room. I set one Object for the "Player" to control with the Directional Buttons. I then set 5 other Objects as "Enemies" and 3 Objects as Life Bonus Items. My goals included the following.
1. Control the player Object with the Directional Buttons [Successful]
2. Give the Player Object and Each Enemy Objects an amount of Life. [Unsuccessful]
I set the player to gain 3 life when colliding with the Life Objects but nothing happens when I come in contact with them.
I then tried to see if it would work with the score points instead of life and it did.
3. When coming into contact with each other, that life is reduced [Unsuccessful]
I don't know the answer to the above, so this is out of my hands until I figure it out. I did, however, figure out how to do it with points but you cannot subtract from it, you can only add to it, and I am assuming the Life System works the same way.
4. Make the Enemy Objects move by themselves and or move in the
direction of the Player Object. [Unsuccessful]
To get them to start moving by themselves without bouncing off walls seems impossible let alone get them to follow the Player Object too.
So you can see I am going for a VERY basic Diablo II system. The more I learn about GM, the less "Basic" it will become. But these are my goals for now.
Another problem I am having is that my Player Object seems to reappear on the farthest Right side (Directly across from the collision) of the board whenever it collides with the Left side of a rock. It doesn't do this on the though though. I have the rocks set as solid and the Player is set to "Move to contact" to the rocks. It seems to make the rocks a wall but I still have the described problem.
I really want to get this working... not to make a DII clone but to get a good understanding of how this program works. If I can pull this Scenario off then I will be on my way to making the REAL games I want to make. Any help on these issues are VERY appreciated!
I Made a wall of rocks all around the room. I set one Object for the "Player" to control with the Directional Buttons. I then set 5 other Objects as "Enemies" and 3 Objects as Life Bonus Items. My goals included the following.
1. Control the player Object with the Directional Buttons [Successful]
2. Give the Player Object and Each Enemy Objects an amount of Life. [Unsuccessful]
I set the player to gain 3 life when colliding with the Life Objects but nothing happens when I come in contact with them.
I then tried to see if it would work with the score points instead of life and it did.
3. When coming into contact with each other, that life is reduced [Unsuccessful]
I don't know the answer to the above, so this is out of my hands until I figure it out. I did, however, figure out how to do it with points but you cannot subtract from it, you can only add to it, and I am assuming the Life System works the same way.
4. Make the Enemy Objects move by themselves and or move in the
direction of the Player Object. [Unsuccessful]
To get them to start moving by themselves without bouncing off walls seems impossible let alone get them to follow the Player Object too.
So you can see I am going for a VERY basic Diablo II system. The more I learn about GM, the less "Basic" it will become. But these are my goals for now.
Another problem I am having is that my Player Object seems to reappear on the farthest Right side (Directly across from the collision) of the board whenever it collides with the Left side of a rock. It doesn't do this on the though though. I have the rocks set as solid and the Player is set to "Move to contact" to the rocks. It seems to make the rocks a wall but I still have the described problem.
I really want to get this working... not to make a DII clone but to get a good understanding of how this program works. If I can pull this Scenario off then I will be on my way to making the REAL games I want to make. Any help on these issues are VERY appreciated!