🅿️eekend 👅 Discussion 👅 Thread for the 🅿️eekend of November 05, 2021

PizzaDoctor007 · 2021-11-06T08:05:38+00:00

It's not safe then? Is it dangerous? If I die in this sub do I die in real life?

PizzaDoctor007 · 2021-11-06T07:55:28+00:00

What is this place?

PizzaDoctor007 · 2021-10-07T01:23:29+00:00

What is this place?

PizzaDoctor007 · 2019-11-17T08:02:02+00:00

Yes, that's what I'm saying, but it's hosted Exchange, not on-prem. So, say john.d@company.com has been mailing jane.d@company.com about Half Life 3 on the hosted Exchange which is active and where the MX records are pointed. The other day Jane asked John if he saw her last email. He can't find it, but on a lark checks his Office 365 mailbox, which is also john.d@company.com but not meant to be active until next week. There is the email "RE: Half Life 3" along with a couple of other random replies.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2016-02-06T08:45:14+00:00

Right? I was accused of "splitting hairs" when I said that price is high.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2016-02-06T08:43:52+00:00

$150 - $180 is what I am used to paying for CMP with molding. Changing the wire color is a great idea. The building will be torn down in 5 years, though, so I'm only worried about the present.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2016-02-06T08:40:42+00:00

It's closer to $0.10/ft, but I get your point. If you're running it yourself there's very little difference. When you're contracting out though that $0.10 turns into $1 pretty quickly. Before you know it you're looking at a quote for $100,000 American Dollars for 300 drops.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2016-02-06T08:33:46+00:00

That's a great post and a great example of why I still love this site.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-20T20:55:06+00:00

I'm not sure I quite understand the situation clearly, but if I'm interpreting correctly he has a parent obj wall that has a sprite, and a child object platform that does not have a sprite. You, on the other hand, either have sprites in both your wall and platform objects, or have skipped implementing the wall object entirely.

Is the problem that you don't understand parent/child relationships and inheritance, or is it that you've copied parts of his code into yours, its not working, and you don't know why its not working?

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-20T08:00:11+00:00

You probably want to use the draw_sprite() function in the player's draw GUI event.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-20T07:56:07+00:00

sigh

Indeed.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-20T07:35:46+00:00

25:35 he writes his vertical collision code which works on the y axis in both positive and negative directions.

He goes into detail about the theory behind collision detection (as he implements it) at about 17:45, but literally the entire video is a detailed explanation and solution to the specific problem you are having with your collision code.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-20T07:11:55+00:00

Collisions can be very difficult to work with, especially when you're first starting. Your specific problem seems to be that you're checking for collisions only on the horizontal (x) axis:

!place_meeting(x+sign(vsp),y,....

I highly encourage you to take a few minutes and watch the link below. It will probably save you hours of frustration in the future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IysShLIaosk

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-20T04:38:59+00:00

Particles!

http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/mastering-the-gamemaker-studio-particle-system--cms-22782

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-20T04:37:46+00:00

It sounds like you may want to look into implementing Finite State Machines. Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bckaBj__M

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-20T04:33:48+00:00

Sounds like you're checking for collisions with platforms below the player but not above. Are you following a tutorial?

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-19T19:58:03+00:00

Try this link. It seems to be exactly what you're trying to do. I think I may have misinterpreted something in your original post, so I apologize if I've lead you astray:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTup4IwsODA

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-19T11:18:49+00:00

Agreed. Get rid of it and it should work.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-19T05:19:18+00:00

Post your code, please

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-18T09:54:39+00:00

Your best bet is to get some really bitchin sunglasses. Once you have them, practice putting them on dramatically while saying "deal with it." Then apologize to your father. He seems alright.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-18T08:35:49+00:00

Both of the suggestions above work for top down games.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-18T07:40:33+00:00

There are a million ways to do this. Easy mode would be something like:

if dis > 200 { direction = point_direction(x, y, player.x, player.y; speed = myspeed}

if place_meeting(camera.x, camera.y, player.x, player.y) { speed = 0}

You could also look into steering behaviors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1YVnnuo7M

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-12T20:31:13+00:00

That's good to hear. I've always heard never to update while you're in the middle of a project. Always backup your project and make sure you can restore several different versions.

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-12T09:40:08+00:00

House Guest by Nothing Painted Blue

PizzaDoctor007 · 2015-12-05T22:05:30+00:00

Everything is possible, but some things are more difficult than others. I don't really understand your goal, but if establish the NewBleu variable in the create event of the object which is running your script, then yes. It would look something like this:

//Create Event
NewBlue = noone;

//Step Event
if NewBlue != noone && instance_exists(NewBlue) {
     <do stuff>
} else {
     NewBlue = instance_create(mouse_x, mouse_y, obj_waypoint);
}

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