scene not changing when characters overlap

izziecc

I have doors between each level and one has suddenly stopped initiating a scene change even though it is still sensing the two actors overlapping. Does any one have suggestion to troubleshoot what went wrong?

TheGabfather

How can you tell that it's still sensing the overlap/collide? If you aren't already, try working the hell out of the Debugger. I like to print a lot of Attributes that I think might be associated with the problem -- well, that usually lets me see the troublesome bits anyways.

Did you mean that it was working fine previously but stopped some time after you've perhaps added new Actors with new Rules? Maybe those new Actors are causing the problem, especially if you're accessing the same Attributes via both Actors. So try temporarily deleting those newer Actors one at a time until your Scene Transition Rule starts working again, then you'll know which is the troublemaker.

Oh yeah and if you have an Actor with a buttload of Rules in it where multiples of them are supposed to fire up at the same time, there's a chance one or two of them won't execute properly. This has happened to me a number of times (e.g. in one of our games where your main Actor is Accelerating around the Scene and there're Collision Rules with other enemy Actors, some times the Collision Rule doesn't fire up properly and you don't lose life/hearts even after a fatal collision -- but that's just our case. We were firing up around 5-6 different Rules on Collision).

Anyhoo help us help you by maybe providing snippets of your Rules. It's easier to see problematic logic that way.