Need help in GM, with the "transforming"

Alright, remember how in the Mario games when you get hit or get a powerup, everything stops and there's a little "transformation" sequence that shows the Mario is either getting hit or growing? I dunno if this makes sense to you, but I need help programming that into GM. Could anyone help?

Excuse me for my edit, but there's one more thing I need help with. When Mario is sliding/skidding, there's a little dust cloud near his feet. How would I program that?

This post has been edited by Torkirby on Jun 9 2008, 05:43 PM

I dunno how to program Power Up/Down Sequence, but for the Dust, make a Variable called "skid"(Without Quotes)and make skid set to 0 when not skidding, and in the step event, put a check to see if he is skidding, and if he is, skid=1, and if skid=1, create object of obj_skid(just an Object with the Dust sprite that destroys itself after a while) at position self.x and self.y.

Ok, well my game uses all codes and not drag and drop, so how would I code it?

Latia to the rescue.
Add to step event:
if hspeed<0 and keyboard_check(vk_right) or hspeed>0 and keyboard_check(vk_left)
skid=1
else
skid=0

For the powerup/down sequence:
Collision Event with Powerup:
alarm[0]=5(use another alarm if you already used this one)

Alarm 0 Event
sprite_index=(mario´s small sprite)
transf+=1
if transf<8
alarm[1]=5
else
transf=0

Alarm 1 Event
sprite_index=(mario´s big sprite)
transf+=1
alarm[0]=5

For more transformations,just make a variable to what mario will transform to and set the variable conditions around the transforming.

So, I make an object called Powerup, and make a collision event for it?

Excuse me for my edit again, but I have a sprite called spr_dust to go with the skidding, how would I put that in?

This post has been edited by Torkirby on Jun 10 2008, 10:47 AM

For the dust, put a Code action in the Step event(for mario) and use this code:

And make sure you set an alarm in the Dust object to make it destroy after a while(maybe 3 steps or something)

Yes. You can Name it however you want, of course. For powering down or getting hurt by an enemy, just reverse the whole thing.(like setting the form variable down)

...and the collision with the powerup/powerdown is for who?

Mario´s object.

Ask Noone, he made an example for growing/shrinking