How to make a character say different lines for different instances?

[Artintheblankvoid001]

Basically, I'm trying to get a character, Naomi, to say one thing when the player bumps into her, and if he does it twice more, Naomi chases the player. How would I do that?

 

[kburkhart84]

This question is pretty broad. Usually the best thing to do is to try doing something yourself, and then post actual code with what you have tried, with details of what it does, and what you wanted it to do. Then, we can help you.

I will say however, that what you want could be done with a thing called a State Machine. Look that up, see how it works, and then you will have an idea of something to get you started with.

 

[woods]

set a variable to keep track of how many times she has been bumped by the player..

i would go something like this..

obj_Naomi create event

bumped = 0;

obj_Naomi collision with player event

bumped++


obj_Naomi step event

if place_meeting(x,y,obj_player)
{
bumped++;
if (bumped = 1)
{
// do something
}
if (bumped = 2)
{
// do something else
}
if (bumped = 3)
{
// do something
bumped = 0; // resets the bump count
}
}

 

[Artintheblankvoid001]

Alright, thanks, I'll give this a shot! And to
kburkhart84, I appreciate what you said as well!
What code should I use to get Naomi to say, "Oh, do be careful!"? The timeframe of the story is the Dark Ages.

 

[woods]

you want to draw text to the screen right... a quick google search for draw text yields game maker studio manual for this....

GameMaker Manual

 

[Artintheblankvoid001]

Okay, thanks woods! I tried it, but it didn't work.
Here's how I set it up:

Create Event:
///Settings
image_speed = 0;
bumped = 0;

Collision Event:
///Naomi Scolds Player for bumping into her
if place_meeting(x,y,obj_Player)
{
bumped++;
if (bumped = 1)
{
draw_text(obj_Naomi.x, obj_Naomi.y+32,"Oh! Do be careful!");
}
if (bumped = 2)
{
draw_text(obj_Naomi.x, obj_Naomi.y+32,"Samuel... are you doing this deliberately?");
}
if (bumped = 3)
{
draw_text(obj_Naomi.x, obj_Naomi.y+32,"...");
}
if (bumped = 4)
{
draw_text(obj_Naomi.x, obj_Naomi.y+32,"THAT IS ENOUGH!")
move_towards_point(obj_Player.x, obj_Player.y, 4);
}
if (place_meeting(x,y, obj_Player))
{
bumped = 0;
}
}
I tried to go off what you gave, but It doesn't display anything. What should I do?
EDIT: I realized what I screwed up, never mind.

 

[woods]

cool.. glad you got it working ;o)

 

[Artintheblankvoid001]

Yeah, I thought so. It still won't show. My coding's there, I moved some of the coding into a draw GUI event and tweaked it a bit, but nada.

 

[woods]

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if  (place_meeting(x,y, obj_Player))
{
bumped = 0;
}

this is the issue i think..
you are setting the bumped variable back to 0 every time..
at the end...move the "bumped = 0" out of its own if statement and into the "bumped=4" if statement

 

[Artintheblankvoid001]

Okay, I'll try that.

 

[Artintheblankvoid001]

It didn't work...

 

[woods]

draw_text has to go in the draw event..
so in the step event we could have a variable that holds the string to draw, and in the draw event draw the text...

kinda like this:


obj_Naomi create event

bumped = 0;
my_text = "";

obj_Naomi step event

if place_meeting(x,y,obj_Player)
{
bumped++;
 
if (bumped = 1)
{
my_text = "Oh! Do be careful!" ;
} 
if (bumped = 2)
{
my_text = "Samuel... are you doing this deliberately?";
} 
if (bumped = 3)
{
my_text = "...";
}
if (bumped = 4)
{
my_text =  ,"THAT IS ENOUGH!" ;
bumped = 0;
}
}

obj_Naomi draw event

draw_text(x,32, string(my_text));

notice that bumped = 0 is inside the if statement for the 4th bump... this is to reset the variable to zero and restart her list of chat..
you had it in its own if statement..forcing the bumped to stay at 0 the whole time.


also im not sure that having place_meeting(x,y,obj) in the collision event may have messed things a bit.. but this should work in the step event.
we change the variable my_text in the step event and drat the contents of that variable in the draw event.

 

[Artintheblankvoid001]

Alright, I'll give it a go. Thanks!

 

[Artintheblankvoid001]

Naomi disappeared...

 

[sylvain_l]

Naomi disappeared...

obj_Naomi draw event

draw_text(x,32, string(my_text));
draw_self();

 

[Artintheblankvoid001]

How did I forget that line? Thank you!