Getting an actor to display text when an item is picked up in front of them

jenky12jenky12 Member Posts: 24
edited September 2015 in Working with GS (Mac)

In a platform game i am currently making i was wondering how to enable an actor (unanimated background character) to display text in a speech bubble when an item in front of them is picked up in the game?

Thanks

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  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    edited September 2015

    Here's a demo. Click on a green "item" to pick it up.

    Note that it would be easier to have the item spawn the speech bubble but I wasn't sure how important the background actor's location was in all of this so I made it a bit more complex.

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  • jenky12jenky12 Member Posts: 24

    The background character actually doesn't matter to much, just as long as collecting something give you information thats the main thing, will see if i can get this going in my game :) is it much simpler without the character, because simpler is my friend atm, only started using this Gamesalad today lol

  • jenky12jenky12 Member Posts: 24

    thanks btw :) i will get back to you if i cant get it going

  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

    Well, my demo is probably about intermediate level GameSalad so it may not all make sense at first but feel free to ask questions.

    Here's a simplified version.

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  • jenky12jenky12 Member Posts: 24
    edited September 2015

    Hello,
    Im trying to copy what you done on the last file, but I cant seem to get it working, I was going to upload them as screenshots but seems i cant lol my problem is that on your version in your rules you have added change attribute and selected 'game.itemX', but on mine this option does not exist. I have set up the rest of the files as close to your as i possibly can but still this function is not available. Sorry if theres a stupidly obvious fix to this problem, I'm a complete novice on game salad so bear with me :) do you know were I'm going wrong.

    thanks once again for your help, appreciate it

  • jenky12jenky12 Member Posts: 24

    Oh think i figured it out, add it in the attributes section? :)

  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

    Yes, you have to create custom attributes (e.g. for game.itemX).

    Also, to upload a screenshot, you have to first host it somewhere (e.g. Dropbox, MediaFire, etc.).

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  • jenky12jenky12 Member Posts: 24

    here is the link to my in play

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/numy2ufd9ew7clc/Voila_Capture 2015-09-11_09-16-18_pm.mov?dl=0

    hopefully that works

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