instance id

Recently i've been trying to cut down on the amount of unnecessary objects in my game and one that i've been trying to cut down on is my teleporter objects. I want to make a single teleporter object where each instance of the object will have a "warpID" variable that's set in the room editor. If...

Hi Everyone! I was wondering if anyone had some insight into how I could go about creating a script that returns the id of an object at a point in 3D space. I guess this means I'm essentially looking for a 3D equivalent of instance_place(), if such a thing is possible. I attempted to make a...

Hey guys ^^ I need help with my game. I'll put a simple example here: I am making an item system in which when the player selects an item he verifies some information about it. global.item_select = (ob_item_sword_01); atk = global.item_select.atk; lv = global.item_select.lv; The problem...

I need an object to be able to determine the specific ids of all instances that are touching its instance. Currently, I use instance_place to tell me if there is a specific type of object below me, but I've found nothing so far that tells me the id of a touching or colliding instance. Anyone...

Game Maker 1.4 I'm working on a side scrolling shooter and I'm creating a dreadnought that has turrets that the player must destroy. Upon doing so, the dreadnought is then destroyed as well. The only way I can think of doing this is to store the instance ID's of the turrets after they're...

Trying to get to grips with instance id, but struggling a bit... How can I instantly destroy my player (oRay) from this collision event? At the moment it doesn't get destroyed until after the alarm that destroys the dead player (oRaydead). Can I call oRay_id ? Everything I've tried so far has...

I need the guide point for the pedestrians in my GTA 2 styled game to find the nearest direction object so they can start the loop of walking along sidewalks. Long story short, I want them to get the nearest ped direction object, using a variable called resetPoint. This is the code I used...

Dear smart people, pls help me to figured out how I can achieve this chainbolt script. By chainbolt I mean an object that hits the neares instance of a certain type (I'll refert to this as "target"), interacts with it and then goes for the next one. My Problem here is that instance_nearest...

If you continually create and destroy many instances quickly (meaning there's never too many at once), what happens if this is done for a very long time in one room? Do higher and higher id numbers cause any performance hit, or crash over hours? Does the id number eventually wrap around? Are...

I am currently working with moving platforms, however several issues have occurred. For this code, I check the instance id of the platform I am stepping on to then execute the code. ID=instance_place(x,y+16,platform_1way) if place_meeting(x,y+vsp/2,platform_dy_h){ if ID!=-4 &&...

Hey hi, my question is pretty straight forward: how would I go about if I wanted to access a certain instance without knowing its position? For example, I try to create a level selection screen. One obj_level represents a level and between some of those, there are connections. Just like...

EDIT: With a little more digging, it looks like this only happens when I change rooms after creating the ds_list. Is there a way to mark a ds_list as persistent? EDIT2: Duh! The objects IN the ds_list weren't persistent, so they were getting destroyed when the room changed. The ds_list still...

I have a hitbox I create in an attack state for the player. Here is my code: bodyHitbox = instance_create_layer(x + 450, y, layer, obj_body_hitbox); object_set_solid(bodyHitbox, true); bodyHitbox.mask_index = spr_player_attack_1_body_hitbox...

hi everybody I'm trying to make a dynamic object by object id name that you can change in room editor ... my instances have different behavior by name that I set in room editor by myself. ... so how can I access to string name like "inst_2D986839"...? I have to read it as a string

I'm getting a weird error and I can't figure out why. My game uses a system of electric doors that have a locked and an unlocked state which can be toggled using a computer terminal. This is by use of an in-game menu that calls a script which holds a switch statement. The terminal communicates...

I was wondering if it was possible to set a mask and store an object id in the same 2D array entry. I'm still relatively new to bitmasking in general, so any corrections are appreciated. In a nutshell, I have a GameGrid[x,y] which starts empty. Then, I set specific tiles to hold certain...

I'm using collision_line to see whether or not a line-of-sight is obstructed in a turn-based strategy game. When there's a character object and its id != the character that's looking, the obstructed variable is set to true, else set to false. So all of that works fine and dandy but the issue...

I have already have a system that saves strings in a text file and loads from that file at game startup, but as far as I understand, instance IDs are set once the game compiles. So their IDs will be different each time the game starts up? How can I refer to instances based on an ID that was...

Hello! I'm trying to reproduce something i saw on a cool website (check it out anotalk.hu to understand(it's the background)) So I made a few dots (like 200) and gave them random direction and speed. Now to connect them i used a collision circle but collision circle is dumb and picks 1 instance...

[SOLVED] I have a 20 position array storing the id of 20 instances. //this is the code I want to run if center_id = global.position_order[o]{ do this } so, object1 is stored in global.position_order[0] object2 in global.position_order[1] etc... center_id = the id of the instance clicked on...