Game Maker Help Thread!

[marsgreekgod]

glad to hear it but you didn't need to double post

[gummybears123]

  Sorry, I removed the post before it now.

[hyperme]

How do I make an enemy spawn and use weapons.  I want to make one that uses either a machete or bow.

[marsgreekgod]

Look at the shopkeeper, he can show you how.l

[hyperme]

I tried that.  And I'm still not sure how it works.

[halibabica]

It's part of his Draw event.  There's a bit of code where it's like:

if (hasGun and angered)
draw_sprite = sShotgunLeft

...or something like that.  That's what makes the weapon visible on his person.  The code to make him fire it is under his Step event where it says "if (status == ATTACK)".

I mimicked him entirely to make the Spelunker and Tunnel Man foes in TLS.

[hyperme]

The draw bit was what i needed to know. Hurrah!  Now I can create Jiang-shi soldiers!

[banna8]

Let's say for ambiguity's purpose that I want to add a "worm" to spelunky.

I want a small (8 x 8 ) ball to be throwable, and when it hits a surface it spawns a worm. The worm will move right if I throw the ball to the right, and move left if I throw the ball left. {done}

However, I want to make it so that if I throw it at a wall on my right, it will move up. and if I throw it at a wall to my left, it will go down. I can't seem to use isCollision's properly. {kinda hard}

Also, if the worm hits a wall while moving, I want it to start going up. If it goes off of a ledge, I want it to go down and wrap around the platform like this:

 

    
    

(Start at the gold, then wrap under and go allong the ceiling in the direction the bats are going) {super extra hard?}

[gummybears123]

Haha, I just noticed that the   is supposed to be an 8 and a )!

You want it to trace a wall?  Keep going around the whole level?  I have no idea how to do that............

(Also, I need this answered,

"Where is the code for when the ghost message comes up?  Not the ghost itself, but the message)

[idoru]

"Where is the code for when the ghost message comes up?

Line 31 of the step code for oGame.

[gummybears123]

THank you! 

[kinnik]

Hiya,  I'm working on adding gamepad support to multiSpelunky...  I'm stuck because I don't know what gamepad.whatever in the control scripts is refering to.  Is it refering to the oGamepad object?  it dosn't seem like it as it should read oGamepad.whatever not just gamepad.whatever...

like in script : controls -> checkLeftPressed

if (gamepad.leftPressed)
    return gamepad.leftPressed;

how does this code know what gamepad.leftPressed is?!

I'm probly just being dumb... help please!

[marsgreekgod]

Hiya,  I'm working on adding gamepad support to multiSpelunky...  I'm stuck because I don't know what gamepad.whatever in the control scripts is refering to.  Is it refering to the oGamepad object?  it dosn't seem like it as it should read oGamepad.whatever not just gamepad.whatever...

like in script : controls -> checkLeftPressed

if (gamepad.leftPressed)
    return gamepad.leftPressed;

how does this code know what gamepad.leftPressed is?!

I'm probly just being dumb... help please!

There already is game pad support.

so um.. yeah.

[kinnik]

Ok smartypants... how do you keep the gamepad from controling both players?

Jk,  but I need to seperate gamepad 1 from gamepad 2 and send it to the right player.

Still, I can't find where or what gamepad.whatever is..

[marsgreekgod]

Oh sorry I miss read that. my bad.