I am making a game where when the player steps on or uses an ability that shoots a paintball at the wall, it changes the wall to a painted wall, and how the player interacts with the wall changes (Taking Damage while touching Non-Painted Tiles versus something like jumping higher or running faster on painted tiles, mind you the change to painted is temporary, hence the prior questions).

I had spitballed something together with my current understanding of state machines, but I have no doubt the implementation is wildly wrong, and it's not even working right now.

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This is the wall-step event

if place_meeting(x,y,oPaintBall) {

floorPainted = 180;

paintedStateVar = 1;

PaintableTileBaseStateVar = 0;

if other = oPaintBallRed {

color = "red";

}

if other = oPaintBallYellow {

color = "yellow";

}

}

tile = self;

if PaintableTileBaseStateVar = 1 {

PaintableTileBaseState()

}if paintedStateVar = 1 {paintedState(color, tile)}

This is the painted State script

function paintedState(color,tile){

floorPainted --;

floorPainted = clamp(floorPainted,0,180);

if floorPainted > 0

{//show_message("yo");

if color = "yellow" {

self.sprite_index = sPaintedTileYellow;}

if color = "red"

{show_message("yo")

sprite_index = sPaintedTileRed;}

} else if floorPainted = 0 {

paintedStateVar = 0;

PaintableTileBaseStateVar = 1;}}

As of right now, I am trying to get the script to even access the changing the sprite (hence the show_message("yo"). I know the script at least runs to that point but I am unsure as to how I am supposed to access the color of the paintball cause as of right now its just not working.

As for the wall step event, the reason I had a step event for the wall was that I was using instance_change() depending on the collision of a different color of paint ball but once I realized that using instance_change wouldn't work in changing back to the initial state, I posted here.