Are you painting the entire level inside the specified width of a tiled background? That doesn't do anything, the point of a tiled background is that it's supposed to tile and repeat with little to no overhead, so you can have an infinitely wide tiled background as long as the repeating texture is less than 4096.

oosyrag Yes I'm painting the level within the width of the tiled background. The game is about dodging and catching bullet objects, so the tiled background, serves as a vista that endlessly repeats.

I tried with moving sprites for background management, but there was always a small white gap that I couldn't figure out how to remove, so I went with the Tiled Backgrounds instead.

The problem is now that the texture size is too big. I guess I need to go back to the sprite method : (

Tiled background is the way to go, and preferred practice. Have you tried reducing the width to 4096 as suggested by Construct?

oosyrag I did try that, and yeah it works. The game is intended to be an android app, and normal playing works. But let's say the player goes to another app to do something very quickly, like reply in a messaging app. When going back to the game, the app freezes and crashes.

I have 2 levels so far, level one is 480 x 1708 which works flawlessly, and I experimented with 480 x 2562. Which crashes upon going to do something else on the phone.

Level 3 is even bigger at 480 x 4270 which doesn't work.

That's why I'm wondering if I can reduce the pixel size while retaining the same general image, of the ... image.

Because the Tiled Background scales to the size of the image, which i set to be the 9:16 screen size or 480 x 854. I can't make it smaller, since it won't fit the screen.

lionz Couldn't you just setup show layer for skill menu visible when xp variable is over a certain amount, then have three separate spaces, (I don't have a better word to describe it), use choose for skills ( kind of hassle if each number is a skill, like 1,2,3 are progressive, so you can only get 2 if you have 1, so making the list will kind of suck but whatevs)

And spawn sprites and text for each location. Then destroy after chosen.

Asmodean , thank you very muchhh, I finally got it working. Just to show you the new and improved event page.

Honestly, I'm not sure why the previous version didn't work. Maybe I had two booleans and the event page was confused? Or having two different end events both asking to reset reload values when reload is zero. Anyways, it works now that the events point back to only one reload value, and utilizing one boolean.

I probably need to understand sub-events better and when to use them lol.

Hopefully other people will find this useful!

Are you sure it's not another problem? It works fine for me.

AsmodeanHonestly, I think something in my current project is blocking it from working properly. I made another project, playing with it and yeah, works as intended. Thanks for seeing if it works for you also.

Jubilee commences. Now, just need to find out what is blocking the event from working.

Don't you want an automatic and a manual reload?

AsmodeanYeah. The player will move via WASD, and holding the R button down while simultaneously also pressing WASD, doesn't seem realistic. Like press once, and done. Instead of holding R down.

Asmodean, I got it to work. This is the event sheet. But I rather just press the button.

I don't see why just pressing the button, which sets the boolean, and while boolean is true, automatically subtract from the variable. And when variable is zero, just reset everything. I'm trying to build a top-down shooter, and while thinking about it, the logic I formed doesn't seem bad, but I'm doing something wrong. Sigh.

The normal ammo system, when shooting bullet amount until zero, resets properly, and does the countdown from 5, but when pressing the reload button, pressing R, is supposed to countdown from the reload time, but instead the value stays static, and does not calculate.

Holding the R button down, does subtract properly until zero, and resets the bullet counter. But most games just allow you to press R, and forget about the reloading system. What am I doing wrong?