Making the player spawn at a different location after going between scenes.

keflyn

Hello,

Sorry if this has been asked before, I can't find the search function on this website.

In my game the player can go in and out of buildings, I've got it so they are able to do so but when they come out of a building, they spawn at the start of the game again. I would like to know how to make it so the players spawns just outside the building they just entered?

Thanks in advance.

gazjm

have 2 game attributes called lastX and lastY

When your enter a building save the players x and y location to the relevant last attribute.

When reentering the scene, have the player spawn at lastX and lastY values.

Something like that should work!

keflyn

What type of attribute should they be? Real? How do you have the players x and y locations? Sorry, I'm very new to gamesalad.

Thanks.

gazjm

yes, choose a real attribute for them.

You will need to have a rule in your player which just before the scene changes saves the values.

use a change attribute behaviour and save player.x to lastX and player.y to lastY

If your in the player actor it will be self.x and self.y that need saving.

keflyn

That didn't work, what did I do wrong?

Got two attributes like you suggest, then inside the player actor I have this;

Rule

Actor receives event - overlaps or collides - actor of type - jump-2-apartment

- Change attribute - self.positionX to game.lastX
- Change attribute - self.positionY to game.lastY

Thanks again.

gazjm

I think you've saved the wrong way round, you need to change attribute game.lastX to self.positionx and the same for y.

In your spawn rule, spawn at lastX and lastY.

keflyn

Spawn rule? Is that the rule I listed above?

keflyn

Any more help on this? I've been adding spawns behaviors and nothing seems to be working?

JohnPapiomitis

it should be like this. Have you 2 real attribute lastx and lasy

whenever you want to change scenes-
change attribute lastx to self position x
change attribute lasty to self poision y
then a timer after 0.1 second run to completion checked,

change scene

then at the start of the scene when you go back to it,

change attribute self position x to last x
change attribute self position y to last y

keflyn

Do I put the behaviors in the player? or the actors that are making the scene change?

keflyn

I put them inside the rules where the character is jumping between scenes but it doesn't seem to be working still? I'm really sorry if I'm sound stupid, it's getting late here.

keflyn

I still can't get this to work or figure out why it's working. Here is what I've done, maybe you can see what I've done wrong?

I have 3 actors, my playable character, an actor that sends my character to the next level(jump-2-apartment) and another actor that sends them back to the first level. (jump-2-street)

in my player I have this rule set up;

Actor receives event - overlaps or collides - actor of type - jump-2-
apartment

change attribute
change attribute game.lastx to self.positionx
change attribute game.lasty to self.positiony
timer every 0.1second
Go to Scene - "Apartment"

Actor receives event - overlaps or collides - actor of type - jump-2-street

change attribute
change attribute self.positionx to game.lastx
change attribute self.positiony to game.lasty
Go to Scene - "Apartment-street"

*Note* All behavior is in player actor non in the scene change actors.

That is all the behavior for the scene changes, where have I gone wrong?

Thanks again and sorry for being so stupid with this.

gazjm

you don't need to put the change lastX and Y rules in actor for returning back to the street, that is overwriting the location saved when you entered the building.

What you need is, in your playable actor on the street scene, a rule which as soon as it loads changes its self.x and self.y position to lastx and lastY.

The only thing is, at the start of a new game you want the player to start in the starting point, not the lastX and lastY. To do this, have a rule in your start button on the titlescreen which changes lastX and lastY to the position you want the player to start.

keflyn

never mind, got it to work, just the problem now of working out the start x and y position argh.

Also, since my character is spawning at the actor that sends it to the next scene, my scene just changes instantly when going back to the starting scene?

on top of that problem, there is now a problem with my light, it's not following with my player up and down anymore, just left and right and is not spawn above my player either, it's spawning at the bottom?