Game Maker Scrolling Shooter
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Whatevs I thought I'll just move on to the next tutorial as I'm sure the scoreboard will be touched on there. I just completed the tutorial for the Scrolling Shooter Part 1 and this game doesn't work as the tutorial intends it to what-so-ever. The plane moves as it should, fires as it should. In the tutorial everything after and including Enemy1 doesn't work as intended. The Enemy plane shows up as part of island2 (yes a section of island2, even though spr_Enemy1 is selected as the sprite to use). The collision events they had me add do not work with the bullet or MyPlane (player's plane). The only thing that DOES work is: Background and islands scroll, islands move to the top and out of the room and jump to a random x position.
A scrolling shooter thanks its name to the fact that the game world scrolls over the screen. So how do we create a scrolling background in Game Maker?
MyPlane moves as intended with the arrow keys. Lastly, spacebar makes MyPlane fire a bullet twice every second (as intended). Oh and MyPlane flies over the islands as intended. If someone can help me.I can throw up my twitch stream, send you a PM of my stream link and you can take a look at what I have to make sure I'm not doing something utterly dumb, but I've already double checked what I have versus the tutorial and I'm 99% sure everything is accurate and true. Thanks, -Tom Update: Had to redo the enemy plane part since it didn't save my progress when I hit save, or maybe I assumed it did when I hit the play button. Any-ho, redid the enemy plane part, the explosions and the explosions/collisions work.but.the enemy plane still shows up as part of island2 and when MyPlane/Enemy plane is supposed to show explosions they show more of island2.
I'm very confused at what is going on here. Update: Heading to bed. I'll be on tomorrow night approx. 12midnight EST. Hp Bt400 Bluetooth Driver/ Download 32&64 Bit Version. If you can help me out at all please PM me or reply. I looked at the Debug Module and looked at the code to understand the best I could and from what I read it seems like everything should be working as intended, but for some reason it isn't. Once again help would be GREATLY appreciated!
I just tried the first tutorial to see what you were talking about and unless I'm mistaken, there is no mention of a 'scoreboard' in it, only about drawing the score at page 14. There is a possibility that steam would give a version of gamemaker with pre loaded tutorials and that the ones given would be outdated: drawing the highscore in one action/function is a thing of the past. Your other problem (an object showing part of a sprite that isn't even assign to it) looks like a corrupted file problem or something like that. Mustafa Game Android on this page.
The only way to have a behavior like what you describe is through actual code and is certainly not of a 'beginner' level, even by pure mistake. So I would recommend starting from scratch (an actual new file), to see what it gives. If that doesn't solve it, having a look at your file might be necessary. Thanks for the reply.
I already reinstalled GM: S once to fix an issue with the islands not showing the sprites correctly. Probably the same damn problem. As long as it ain't something I'm doing then that's good. I just don't know if I want to continue with this program if this is going to keep happening. If things aren't going to work right I won't be learning.
Then again, if this is something I want to pursue I have to learn to deal with bugs and glitches. The only thing I was thinking of trying is getting a non Steam version if possible. Could you do me a huge favor and do the Scrolling Shooter Part 1 Tutorial up to the enemy plane? I'm wondering if this part of an island2 shows up as the enemy plane on your end too.Here is a picture for comparison: I added in a second enemy plane for the heck of it to see if the problem would multiply.