Fade Actor In and Out Every 3 Seconds

JoshKahane

Hi

So its me back again for more help.

I want my actor to fade in and out every 3 seconds, and when faded out my other actor can't collide with it so it can pass it. So essentially in game you have 3 second time periods to get through this gap in the puzzle.

Yet again I have gotten myself into a muddle, any help would be much appreciated as per usual, thanks.

jonmulcahy

one solution would be to create an attribute called collidable. On your object, create a timer:
Every 3 seconds
change attribute game.collidable to (game.collidable+1)%2

Every three seconds this will switch that attribute from 0 to 1 to 0 to 1 and so on.

Then on your player (or whatever it is) add a rule that says
if attribute game.collidable = 1
colide with player actor

JoshKahane

Hmm, nope doesn't work. At least the alpha isn't changing on the fading actor, wether the colliding thing works as well I can't tell. Tried adding change attribute, self.alpha but im not doing something right. I hate how bad at this I am (Im not very logical), haha.

JoshKahane

Thats worked great, thanks tshirtbooith (yet again) and Mulcahy.

My issue now is that I want it so that when the actor has an alpha of 0 I can pass through without changing to my game over scene and when the alpha is 1 it can cause game over when colliding.

Back soon, getting dessert! I need some brain power and its getting late here in the UK.

JoshKahane

Yep, just got it, thanks again. Also, thank you home made carrot cake! Hehe, kicked my brain into action.