Help with using Pause for a Bonus Game

NesesitaGames

I hope someone can help me out here- basically, I want:

- A Magic Item to appear onscreen after a certain number of points are achieved. This moves back and forth (using Interpolate).

- When my Actor collides with the Magic Item, the scene Pauses and loads the Bonus Scene (which is a Pause scene). The scene is timed, and after 15 seconds the game is unPaused.

- When the Actor returns to the main game, the Magic Item should NOT be there any longer. You can only access the Bonus Scene ONCE.

- If the player resets the main scene, the Magic Item starts over.

I can set the Magic Item to destroy after collision (right before Pausing), but then if the player resets the scene, it doesn't get respawned. I've also tried setting the Magic Item to go offscreen upon Collision, but this doesn't seem to work either.

Please help?

JohnPapiomitis

Try this.

Have a attribute called magicreset, and set it to 0.

In the magic item have a rule when actor overlaps or collides with player change attribute magicreset to 1

have another rule in the magic item when attribute reset =1 change attribute self position y to 500.

Then on whatever button you press to reset, have a rule when touched is pressed, have your reset scene stuff and also have a change attribute changing magicreset to 0.

That should work for ya

NesesitaGames

Thanks, John I did that, and it worked nicely for the most part- but for some reason, whenever the game would Unpause (i.e. come back to the main scene from the pause scene), the Magic Item would still be there.

I tried interpolating it offscreen, tried changing attribute position.x to go offscreen... but nothing worked. It was still there.

The only thing that seems to work for me is to Destroy the Magic Item right before loading the Bonus Scene... then in the case of resetting the entire Main Scene, Spawn the Magic Item (if it doesn't already exist).

I'm hoping the Destroy - Spawn won't be too resource intensive.

anithmuk

if you reset the scene, the item should come back, so I don't know what's up with that

you could try going: When actor collides with the magic item, move item to x position 800 or something and after 0.1 seconds pause game. Then when the scene resets the item should come back, at least thats what works for me.