My glitchy character

[Adrianz]

So, I am an inexperienced coder. My character keeps on moving weirdly. My problem in particular is that it keeps on teleporting whenever I use the arrow keys.
Please help, thx .
Here is the code, I do hope somebody could help me fix it.

 

[The-any-Key]

I suggest you do a youtube search for "game maker movement"

 

[Luminous Wizard]

Check if your offsets for your sprite are all the same, also make sure your "spr_matthew_down" is the correct name of the sprite, or else you will be assigning a non-existent sprite to your object. Also, your movement logic for incrementing and decrementing variables is incorrect. You are making your player go down when you press left.

I have fixed your code below:

if (keyboard_check(vk_left))
{
    sprite_index = spr_matthew_left;
    x-=1;
}

if (keyboard_check(vk_right))
{
    sprite_index = spr_matthew_right;
    x+=1;
}

if (keyboard_check(vk_up))
{
    sprite_index = spr_matthew_up;
    y-=1;
}

if (keyboard_check(vk_down))
{
    sprite_index = spr_matthew_down; //fix this? Your syntax highlighting is indicating there is no sprite by this name
    y+=1;
}

What do you mean by teleporting? In what event is your code?

 

[Adrianz]

Check if your offsets for your sprite are all the same, also make sure your "spr_matthew_down" is the correct name of the sprite, or else you will be assigning a non-existent sprite to your object. Also, your movements for incrementing and decrementing variables are incorrect. You are making your player go down when you press left.

I have fixed your code below:

if (keyboard_check(vk_left))
{
    sprite_index = spr_matthew_left;
    x-=1;
}

if (keyboard_check(vk_right))
{
    sprite_index = spr_matthew_right;
    x+=1;
}

if (keyboard_check(vk_up))
{
    sprite_index = spr_matthew_up;
    y-=1;
}

if (keyboard_check(vk_down))
{
    sprite_index = spr_matthew_down; //fix this? Your syntax highlighting is indicating there is no sprite by this name
    y+=1;
}

What do you mean by teleporting? In what event is your code?

ok thx will try to find the flaws, and i just found out what caused the random teleportations... It's just because I didn't set the character to walk properly so it teleported back to it's original place.

 

[Adrianz]

I suggest you do a youtube search for "game maker movement"

thx, I will!

 

[Adrianz]

Make sure your origin points for your character are in the center. If their not, it can seem like its teleporting around.

yeah i just found out but thanks anyways