just add all the backgrounds and character skins you want to two different objects

so one will be background and another will be playable character

you can then assign different backgrounds and outfits for character by drawing them and adding them as either differing frames or animations in the drawing editor

then you just create a global number variable for each and assign each "skin" to a number

so for example, pseudocode;

is BackgroundGlobalNumber = 1 , then set background object's animation to "__(whatever you have named it)__" or set background object's frame to __(whichever you desire)__

and repeat this for however many different backgrounds you want

then all you need to do is set the conditions in which these events take place, so my guess would be something like is MenuGlobalBoolean true? then for each arrow key hit (either direction) change BackgroundGlobalNumber to __ number.

then to close the loop (so if you only want 4 different backgrounds that cycle in the menu) just make it so if BackgroundGlobalNumber >4 then set BackgroundGlobalNumber = 1, and if BackgroundGlobalNumber <1 then set BackgroundGlobalNumber = 4. this way if it goes over 4 it always go back to 1 and vise versa.

Then just apply the same logic to creating the different skins for your character sprite

IT WORKED! thanks dude

I realized that despite the weird bug of the music not actually playing within the song menu (it basically just repeats over and over rapidly) it does however select the song and begins playing it correctly once the menu is exited;

I mentioned before [before removing out of concern of relavence] but this all takes place within a pause menu that sets the timescale of the game to 0, that is probably the reason for the music not playing properly I'm assuming at this point.

Regardless, my issue now is attempting to make it so that all music is essentially muted, which I hopefully can accomplish simply by just muting all songs while in the menu and unmuting them outside of the menu. Though I predict there may be issues implementing this if the timescale is in fact and continues to interfere.

Thank you — so much for your help though! As I mentioned above many of the seemingly obvious solutions seem to whiz right by me due to my newbie status of code knowledge, I really appreciate the assistance and will update again if the mute works or not.

I forgot to include in snapshot but at bottom there is a command to set the global number to 0 if the songchoosebar is invisible, this makes it so it goes to 1 at the start of the menu appearing. (Thus beginning at Track/Song One)

I have also managed to get the menu to work going forward from Song One to Song Two through the addition of more global variables, however, I am unable to figure out how to continue this to work for every song in the list from 1 to 13, in the example posted below, the menu still has the aforementioned issues going backwards, however, now if you hit the right key from Song One it will go forward in the list to "Song Two" and no further.