My I need help thread(for me), Right now: Winged ? blocks.

Another help thread made by me? I know.

I have a new problem. I'm trying to create a winged ? Block like in super mario world, But the solid won't follow it right, plus I'm trying to make the verticial speed to make it go up and down smoothly without using invisible arrows. I know alarms will be used for this probally.

This post has been edited by mario4ever on Sep 5 2008, 07:39 PM

Are you sure that the problem is the checking of the collision, or could it be that you just put a bad code that is supposed to highlight the star?

I've tried:

if mouse_y = y
and stuff like that.

What do you mean by "highlight the star?" I've never heard that before.

wellllll you want the mission name displayed when you go over the star. That's what I mean by it.

And also: "if mouse_y = y" is not a very helpful code, as it requires you to move your mouse on exactly ONE pixel on the screen.

Ohh.. I get it, but then I have no idea what is the right code part.

Highlight the star, oh, I thought that you were talking about something about the code, my bad.

You really want to put the entire code (barring the if mouse_y = y) in a Mouse Enter event.

Ahh, I tried a "draw" event. I'll try that.

EDIT: It still won't work though. I put draw_text in the mouse enter event. I'm trying to restrain myself from using the game maker standard message.

This post has been edited by mario4ever on Aug 30 2008, 01:14 PM

Aw, poo, I didn't account for that.
Is the origin of the star in the center or in one of the corners, because I have some code that will help. It will mean that the text appears when the mouse is a little way off the star as well, but it's the best I can do.
Assuming the star's origin is in the center, do this:

Also, stick it in the draw event.

This post has been edited by mariobro27 on Aug 30 2008, 01:19 PM

Dang, still doesn't work. Wow this is hard. I tried what you said mariobro,
but I put the draw_text after that, but that looks right. I just need some way to get the text to show. I'm not very good at code, but I know that it is needed to do this sort of thing.

if (mouse_x>=star.x-(star.sprite_width/2) and mouse_x>=star.x-(star.sprite_width/2) and mouse_x<=star.x+(star.sprite_width/2) and mouse_y>=star.y-(star.sprite_height/2) and mouse_y<=star.y+(star.sprite_height/2)) {
do stuff
}
draw_text(sfsdfdsfds);

like this??

Because actually, you need to replace the "do stuff" part with whatever you want to do.

This still doesn't work, I don't know that's wrong, the draw_text says it has wrong number of arguments to function, I don't know what you mean by do stuff, I need nothing inbetween it, and this is really getting me mad.

How about this idea?

Determine the middle of the star's sprite (you've likely declared the middle of the star sprite to be the origin, so the middle of the sprite when drawn is its own current XY coordinate). Then consider a radius around the star.

Then use this code for each star object:

I can't believe how much people don't get how to do this...

Draw Event:

Also, make sure if it has a mask, the mouse can collide with it. Like no empty transparent sprites for the mask.

This is how if statements work.
If (conditon) {do stuff}

You need the draw_text in the { }
If you still don't understand this, maybe coding isn't for you.

This post has been edited by mariobro27 on Aug 31 2008, 04:26 AM

Thanks, I got the mouse collison to work right. I'm not good a coding, but I think the more I practice, the more I understand.

I'm trying to make winged ? blocks, right now I have it's movement the way I want, but I'm trying to make the solid block follow it, but no luck.

This is what It looks like: