Can't change sprite_index .. after changing room

[Rhadamanthe]

Hi everyone !

I post here, because I've a big and mysterious issue!

I want to change a sprite for a blood effect, according to my player orientation (left, right, up, down).
I have my sprites in arrays, because it changes according to ennemies.
So I tried two ways :

- I put my sprite attack of my character in the same order than the blood sprite in the arrays. So, when I create the instance of the blood effect, I call the 2D array, the first entry is an id of the ennemies, second is the sprite index of my character.

- I set a variable from 0 to 3, when I change my character sprite for attack. And it's suppose to be the same than the second entry of my 2D array.

Ok, so, it works, but only in my first room !!
When I go to the second, in both ways, the value is 0. But nothing change between the first and second room ...


If someone has a magic trick to resolve that ... Thank you in advance

 

[Relic]

If it works in one room but not the other, I'd be focusing on how you create these arrays. If your arrays are not global variables, moving to a new room will require the arrays to be created again.

 

[Rhadamanthe]

Thanks for the clue

Even if my array is in a persistent object ?

 

[CedSharp]

Well, is your player AND enemies persistent ?
Because if they aren't, their create event executes when the room start. Check if you are setting your variable to 0 there.

 

[Rhadamanthe]

Mmmmmh, thanks !
I don't want my ennemies to be persistent because I make them spawn randomly in each room.
The variable supposed to change according to my player orientation (0 to 3), doesn't depend to ennemies, and when I say "an id of the ennemy", it's a variable I created, which is the same for all instances of one ennemy object.

That's why I don't understand

 

[CedSharp]

So if I understand correctly, you have a persistent object which holds 2 arrays ( or a 2d array, same thing ) where you have, ordered by "direction id" ( 0 to 3 ), first the player attack sprite and second the blood sprite.
You want to display the correct blood sprite according to the player's orientation, if that's what I understand.

In that case, instead of all this really nice but unnecessary logic, you could simply have an object oBlood ( or obj_blood or whatever ) that checks the current direction of the player and change it's own sprite accordingly ( or image_angle, depending on how you do things ).

Spoiler: Example Code

if( instance_exists( oPlayer ) ) {
    switch( oPlayer.dir ) { // I assume dir is the direction ( 0 to 3 )
        case 0: sprite_index = sBloodRight;
        case 1: sprite_index = sBloodTop;
        case 2: sprite_index = sBloodLeft;
        case 3: sprite_index = sBloodBottom;
        default: instance_destroy(); // should never happen
    }
}
else instance_destroy(); // show never happen

If this isn't what you're trying to do, then sorry for my misunderstanding.

 

[Rhadamanthe]

It's almost what I've done !
I have already an object oBlood, but I use an array in an object bestiary where there is blood fx sprites according to each monsters, like that :

Spoiler: object bestiary

fx[0,0] = spr_fx_blood_green_right;
fx[0,1] = spr_fx_blood_green_up;
fx[0,2] = spr_fx_blood_green_left;
fx[0,3] = spr_fx_blood_green_down;

So 1rst index 0 is the first monster, 1 the 2nd etc. And when I attack, I've an object damage where I create the oBlood and change the sprite :

Spoiler: object damage

instance_create(other.x,other.y, obj_fx_blood);
obj_fx_blood.sprite_index = obj_bestiaire.fx[other.car_id,creator.f]

car_id is a variable for each monsters, to call the right sprite in obj bestiary, creator is the player which create the obj damage and f is a variable that I change in a script attack :

Spoiler: Script attack

switch (sprite_index) {

    case spr_player_down:
            sprite_index = spr_player_attack_down;
            self.f = 2
        break;
 
    case spr_player_left:
            sprite_index = spr_player_attack_left;
            self.f = 1;
        break;
 
   etc....

I tried to put a switch(creator.face) in the obj damage, and exactly the same : it works in first room, not in second, it let the face = RIGHT

Thank you again for your help


Edit : before switch(creator.face), I've tried to call a script which change the variable face according to round(dir/90), but actually just let at Right in first and second room

 

[Rhadamanthe]

up please