Hello.

I am a beginner and I am staying away from plugins right now just toying around making my own platformer. So far I came up with some complicated stuff that I am struggling to make it work specially stuff like AI.

My question is, shall I be using plugins or shall I try to stay away from them?

Thank you for your time

That doesn't work for my case. I do not want any countdown and I need to set it as a layer is visible not as an object with collision. That's exactly the problem.

Anyone? Please

I'm not sure how to do what you're saying. I've set up this:

If layer X is visible set to true

If layer X is not visible set to false.

I can't seem to find any condition to run if boolean is A do B. The system variables are only available for globals not instance. Sorry if I make stupid questions but I lack a lot of knowledge.

Hi so I want to make a sound pop up when a layer comes visible.

This is somewhat something like a tutorial or explanation. If you pick X or Y or whatever, a layer becomes visible where a character with a text box comes and explain you the mechanic/item/whatever.

I want to to add a sound for when this happens so I figured I would add a sound whenever that layer becomes visible. The problem is if I dont set trigger once while true, the audio loops as long as stays visible and if I trigger it, works fine but only happens the first time the layer becomes visible and I want it to happen everytime.

Long story short: I want a sound to pop up when a layer becomes visible, just play ONCE at the start, do not repeat as long as is visible and I want it to happen every time the layer becomes visible.

Any ideas?

I don't see why it would look better. You set the layer visible which makes the text box pop up. What would be the difference?

The difference would be I can actually make a full design with different objects to pop up at once instead just one text box.

While I was waiting for a reply came up with a different idea. Make a layer with a design I am pleased set invisible and once I want it to show up I ll set layer to visible with the text I want and then back to invisible. This way I can make it look better graphic-wise than just popping up a textbox within the screen.

Does it sound good?

Also thanks for your reply, I appreciate it very much

Hello guys.

I am making a platform game and before the first time you get to see something new like an item or mechanic I want a small tutorial text to appear.

My question is how can I make this in an efficient way. I am a beginner with C2 and this is what I have in mind.

I thought of making a character sprite to pop on in the screen with a dialogue box and the information needed. So when the player X between the X distance I want the tutorial to pop up the character sprite and the text, depeding on which item or mechanic needs to be explained. I thought of doing this in a layer called tutorial and set paralax to 0.0 place the image and set to invisible.

My question is, is this a proper way to do it or should I be trying to do it in a different way?

Here's an example of what I would like to do. Making the "tutorial" come up right in front, leaving the game behind in a second place.

Any chance you could save it in an earlier version, I don't have the beta r10 installed.

I have the bullet set to spawn at the imagepoint in the turret object. So I need a static "shotting position" if you will. I'm not quite sure what you mean, seems that would overcomplicate things; if I could get the static point that would do it.

So I know there's no way in C2 to make rotation to false and make the turret work. It won't shoot if you do that.

So I figured I would make it rotate and make it invisible and place on top of it the actual tower/turret artwork. But my problems don't end here.

Now that I have finished my artwork I set an imagepoint on the turret object and place the "turret overlay" on top of it. Now the problem is I can't figure out a shape and a way for the actual turret object to shoot from the same point. Even if you set an imagepoint to spawn an object from that point, the rotation will make the object spawn from different places, therefore it won't paste correctly on my overlay.

So how can I actually make it work?

Thanks!

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