Ahh I see what it's doing. I just needed a better method to check it's values and properties later. I thought I could do this with an every tick event for those sprites, but it was not working, I'll try the global variable.

I didn't think they were one big project. I just thought that any later created objects after run time would inherit the values and properties of the family it belongs to, like in the case I put forward, they would just be set to invisible even if they were visible upon creation. Obviously this is not the case.

Thank you for your help, again, Dop. I will do what you suggested. It makes sense.

There does not appear to be a setting to get an email notification when someone responds to your thread. Sure you can follow it, but you won't get email notifications anymore? What happened to that?

Hey Dop,

I could not embed the screenshot of my code on the forum for some reason, you'll have to go to the link. It must have something to do with the major forum upgrade because I initially could not do a lot of things that I wanted to show you and I only just got my avatar back. What a mess. Sorry if my initial request was confusing in any way. I could not edit it after I posted it.

My understanding of families here are that if you add an object to a family and you add instance variables for that family, then those objects in that family will be impacted by those instance variables that the family has.

In this case, I set an instance variable to the family, and like the screenshot showed you, it should be toggling all objects in that family to visible or not visible.

This is fine initially but later on when helper sprites are created (for example, I wanted to toggle the visibility of my pathfinding_destintion_helper sprite for each of my people), but people are spawned later rather than at the start of the layout, and if I have the toggle off some people spawn with it's visibility off and some people spawn with it on. This seems to occur mainly if a person is created in the middle of toggling it so some sprites in the family have their visibility on when the boolean is off, and I can't seem to match the sprite's visibility with the family's visibility later for some reason. I just don't understand what I am doing wrong here.

If I use a global variable, that means I have to toggle the visibility specific for each sprite instead, and I know I can do that, I just thought it would be easier to do this with families since later on, I will likely add other objects for debugging and my outlook of this would be a simply matter of just adding the object to the family so I don't have to go adding it to the code.

When you use the pathfinding behaviour clear obstacles action followed by regenerate pathfinding map around object, does it clear obstacles for every single instance or only the instances that are picked by the conditions?

Ashley will look into these bugs, it's just that him and his team are mainly focusing on Construct 3 beta at the moment, so expect a delay. Plus, there is a bug with collisions that he is trying to work on as well. There is a blog on that issue on the website, so we just have to be patient. In the mean time, you can either just type out the entire expression or rename your objects to remove the underscore _ in them, because not having an underscore seems to be the best workaround at the moment until this is fixed. I love using the underscores in names and whatever, so I'll continue putting up with this until it's fixed.

Good work discovering that it's not just variables, though!

I reported something very similar to this here:

Except in this case, you discovered that it does not seem to be impacted by just variables, it's any object, expression or variable being picked up by C2 after the _. You have objects starting with S_ so if you go to search anything after S without putting an _ in, it will just disappear.

I suspected that this bug to have a more broad impact.

Problem Description

Underscores stop C2 from guessing expressions after the underscore or if you make a spelling mistake with the variable's name after the . character (until you backspace passed the . and then it will start guessing again

You will not need to run the layout to see this bug.

Attach a Capx

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rureks7adycnc0d/Underscores%20stop%20C2%20from%20guessing%20expression%20after%20the%20underscore%20or%20spelling%20mistake.capx?dl=0

Description of Capx

Demonstrates that C2 will stop guessing your expressions under two circumstances.

Steps to Reproduce Bug

• Step 1) Create an instance variable for a sprite object and (boolean or value) and call it "b_example"
• Step 2) Create a variable called "Blah" (You can name this whatever you want, just make sure the first letter starts with the characters 'B' or 'b'
• Step 3) Go to the event sheet.
• Step 4) Select the sprite object to add an action.
• Step 5) Select an action that allows you to enter an expression. For example: "Set Value"
• Step 6) Type out your expression but make sure you are typing out the "Blah" expression. For example: "Self.Blah" You will notice that after you type the 'B' or 'b' Character, it will stop guessing what you are trying to enter and the expression results disappear.
• Step 7) Change the name of b_example to bexample, then start this test from Step 3. When you get to Step 6, you will notice that construct will not stop guessing your expression and will continue to keep it up until you decide to select something or finish that part of the expression after the . character.
• Step 8) Providing there are no underscores in any variables, type your expression after . with a spelling mistake and even though you backspace to fix spelling mistake, C2 will not guess your expression until after you delete and replace the . (the full stop/period character)

Observed Result

C2 stops guessing your expression to select from the expressions list under where you are typing.

Expected Result

C2 keeps results there until you have finished typing all characters of your expression (or selected from the expressions list)

C2 returns expressions list when your expression no longer has any spelling mistakes after the . character without having to replace it.

Affected Browsers

• Chrome: N/A
• FireFox: N/A
• Internet Explorer: N/A

Operating System and Service Pack

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro v10.0.17134 Build 17134

Construct 2 Version ID

Beta release r257.3

dop2000 I have made those changes as well as put timers for every cooldown variable system I had, it was a bit of a learning curve but things are working very nicely, now. Thanks for your help!

Edit: Thanks for your help, AGAIN!