While making a game, I had set it up so when the player dies, the game resets. Feeling this was a bit too harsh, I did some research and found the room_restart() code, which is meant to restart the current room. But, when I input it and triggered it via dying, it did not reset the room to how it was. How do I reset it?
{
room_restart()
}
That is the code that triggers on collision with an enemy.
You would have to record the state somehow. Game Maker has a native state save function, but if you wanted a room to stay the same without changing the player's inventory or something, you'd have to manually record the state of every object in it so when the player leaves and comes back, everything resumes where it was.
You could try having each object record important variables to a file with sections for each room. For instance, you could use a JSON file with sections for each room, and each object would record their vital data into that section. For example:
{
"rmHouse": {
"Mom": {
"x": 64,
"y": 128,
"action": "lookingDown"
}
}
}
Check around for Game Maker JSON extensions. Here's one for GM8.1/Studio: http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=565659
room_goto(room);
That will send the room back to how it was when you first entered it, but room_restart should do the same.
Make sure that you do not have "persistent" checked in the room options. That's what sounds like it's probably the issue to me.
If you had
if(health = 0) {
instance_destroy();
}, then delete instance_destroy. Replace it with x = 32
y = 64
health = max_hp
restart_room();
so that the X position is set, the Y position is set, the health is back, and the room restarts.
Related
I want to give the player a chance to select a few options on game startup, such as their name.
The only problem is that the game insists on putting the player into the first room immediately and print the room name and description. That's not interesting for the player yet, though.
How can I prevent Inform 7 from automatically putting the player into the first room, or at least suppress the room name and description printing at startup?
The solution I found:
The initial room is a room.
The first rule for printing the name of a room:
if the player is in the initial room:
do nothing;
otherwise:
continue the action.
I am using Change Feed processor library to read the Change Feed on a partitioned collection and below is the code for how I have configure it. I ma using most of the default options.
ChangeFeedProcessorOptions feedProcessorOptions = new
{
LeaseRenewInterval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15),
};
var docObserverFactory = DocumentFeedObserverFactory.Create(this.destinationCollectionInfo, this.dbRepository);
this.builder
.WithHostName(hostName)
.WithFeedCollection(this.monitoredCollectionInfo)
.WithLeaseCollection(this.leaseCollectionInfo)
.WithProcessorOptions(feedProcessorOptions)
.WithObserverFactory(docObserverFactory);
This runs fine as long as the Change Feed application is running and documents are being inserted/updated in the collection and the Change Feed app picks them up as expected.
The problem happens when I stop the Change Feed app for sometime and insert/update few documents in the Collection. Then when I start the Change Feed app, it doesn't pick changes from where it last left. Those changes that were inserted when the Change Feed app was stopped are lost. But when I set the flag StartFromBeginning to true, it picks everything from the start including changes that were inserted when the Change Feed app was stopped in between for sometime.
My understanding of read from current (StartFromBeginning to false) is that the Change Feed reads documents since it last left. But that doesn't seem to happen. Please help.
There are two ways to continue from exactly where you left it.
The first, and more accurate one, is to store the Continuation token of the last thing you read. That way you can specify it when you start again and it will win over both the StartTime and the StartFromBeginning flags.
The second one is to provide the StartTime property which will try and find the continuation token of a given time automatically. It has an approximate 5 second precision so there is a chance that you might miss some documents though.
I have database that I have multiple orders entered into. Everything seems to be working fine except for a few old entries which will not accept updates/changes to their Fields.
Note: The majority of the Fields are Strings with Possible Values entered via a DropDown Box.
So if I open Order A I can make adjustments just fine and those changes persist even after closing the page and coming back or refreshing.
But if I open Order B, I can make changes via the dropdowns and it looks like they have adjusted, however if I leave the page or refresh all the changes have reverted back.
One piece of info that may be helpful is that each of these orders has at least one Field that contains an entry that is no longer a Possible Value (the original entries were removed/changed per request of the client).
Maybe they are "locked" because of this? Is there a way to look at an error log for a Published app?
I can delete the "corrupt" entries and recreate them (since there are currently only a few), but I would prefer to find a better solution in case this happens again in the future.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It's a bug. Such field level value updates should get through.
As workaround you can update prohibited(not possible anymore) values with allowed ones in OnSave Model's Event like:
switch (record.Field) {
case "old_value_1":
record.Field = "new_value_1";
break;
case "old_value_2":
record.Field = "new_value_2";
break;
...
}
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Each deployment has its own log. Have you tried "App Settings > DEPLOYMENTS > (click on the desployment) > VIEW LOGS"?
What I have
I have two rooms: rm_home and rm_options. I have a sound: snd_Bgm. And, I have three objects: obj_bgm, obj_BtnOnClicked, and obj_BtnOffClicked.
What I want is very simple
Player can turn on/off the snd_Bgm.
What I have done
In obj_bgm, I have these events:
Create Event: set var global.sound to 1
Room Start: stop sound snd_Bgm; if global.sound == 1 then play sound snd_Bgm
In obj_BtnOnClicked, I have these events:
Left-Pressed Event: play sound snd_Bgm; set var global.sound to 1
In obj_BtnOffClicked, I have these events:
Left-Pressed Event: stop sound snd_Bgm; set var global.sound to 0
I put obj_BtnOnClicked, and obj_BtnOffClicked in rm_options, which can be accessed from rm_home. Then, I put obj_bgm in rm_home.
This is the problem
When game start, it will show rm_home and plays the snd_bgm. I go to rm_options, then click the obj_BtnOffClicked to turn off the sound, so the sound is off. But, when I go back to rm_home, the sound is on again.
What I think
I shouldn't put Create Event: set var global.sound to 1 in obj_bgm, because when rm_home start, it takes the value of var global.sound from Create Event. But, if I put Create Event in obj_BtnOnClicked or obj_BtnOffClicked, it shows a Get Error.
What should I do? Please explain your answer. Thanks.
Are your rooms and your variables persistent ?
If rm_home is not persistent, it will restart every time you leave it. So every object placed in that room will be reset, including obj_bgm, which sets your sound variable to 1. I think this is the reason the sound restarts when you come back to rm_home.
If you still want to reset the room but not this particular object, you can make it persistent. You can do it either by ticking the box in the object or through code.
If you put the create event in a button object, it will not be read until you go to the options room. So when the obj_bgm tries to set it to 1, it does not exist yet. I believe it causes the error.
I make these remarks on assumptions, but I would need to see your code or your error message to help you further.
I am making a game in gamemaker, I need to pull out player's position or coordinates per second in text file or excel sheet or CSV file. I am new to gamemaker and I don't know much about how to pull out information from the game.
I would really appreciate any help in this matter.
Thank you.
Game Maker's File I/O is not the best. However, since there are 30 steps in each second (by default, you can make sure in Room > Settings), you can make a script to record the object.x and object.y every 30 steps (or even every step, for that matter). I'm not sure if you want to input or output from file, so if you explain more I can probably expand on this.
Edit #1
In your first room's creation code, put this:
globalvar playersteps;
playersteps=0;
Then in your player object, put this in a code snippet in the Step Event (replace objectname with the object's name in the code):
var file;
file = file_text_open_write(working_directory + "\log.txt")
if (playersteps) { playersteps -= 1 } else {
file_text_write_real(file,objectname.x)
file_text_write_string(file,",")
file_text_write_real(file,objectname.y)
file_text_writeln(file)
playersteps=30
}
file_text_close(file)