Collision won't send boolean to false

Goodnight Games

I'm trying to get a boolean to go to true on collision then false when no longer colliding but it just stays stuck at false.

This is the logic I'm using: http://i.imgur.com/MaX45.png

If(collide){boolean is true}else{boolean is false}

I'm not sure why it always returns false when it collides does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

Socks

As a quick debug test can you throw the 'otherwise' condition into a timer - and place it on 'after 0.5 seconds' (or enough time for the 'self.add/true' to register).

The 'true' might be registering but immediately moving on to the 'false' bit.

Just a guess, might not be relevant.

Socks

The method works fine for me (true as the rule and false as the 'otherwise')

A quick example:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mryafaogw7b8w8l

hotMagic

Is it registering the otherwise event at all? Have you tried a debug msg?

If not, a workaround is to make it switch that bool to false when the actor is outside the range of X distance from the other.

Goodnight Games

I did the debug log and it kept registering as false even when I'm inside collision.

How would I phrase the distance part?

If actor a is > x distance (I would have to get a variable here to calculate distance) then set to false

then another rule that just sets it to true on collide?

Thanks so much for the help!

Goodnight Games

I actually did that with the timer that's how I'm getting it.

The other reason I know is I have some graphical things that trigger on true which go fine if I have nothing in the otherwise statement. Thanks for the help though.

Socks

I actually did that with the timer that's how I'm getting it.

I can't see a timer in your image of your rules ?

Goodnight Games

Oh man I'm dumb for some reason I read that and thought you meant putting a debug log in a timer (What I had already).

I tried it and it worked, you are a gentleman and a scholar!

Socks

Oh man I'm dumb for some reason I read that and thought you meant putting a debug log in a timer (What I had already).

I tried it and it worked, you are a gentleman and a scholar!

I'm guessing the collision was too brief to register before the 'otherwise' rule kicked, delaying the 'otherwise' rule gives it time to register. This is a guess by the way, but it sounds like the timer helped whatever the issue is.