"Teleporter"

[TheRealMrSketch]

I want the player to press a button whenever I reach the "teleporter" and I get to next room just fine, but I want it to be able to go back to the other room. However, I just go to the next room. I have a global variable called flipRoom which is supposed to check if you are in a "Negative" room but its not working. This is what the code looks like in Drag and Drop
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[TsukaYuriko]

Is an instance of this object in the negative room? What happens when you try to go back? Try putting debug messages at key points of your code to check which parts of it execute and which don't.

 

[TheRealMrSketch]

When I try to go back, I go to the next room not the previous room which isn't what I want. I don't know how to set it up.

 

[TsukaYuriko]

You could make the room to go to variable. If you want to do this via the GUI, add a variable of type Asset in the object's Variable Definitions. You'll then be able to select a room in the properties window of instances of this object that you place in the room. Finally, instead of going to the next room, go to a specific room, that room being the one stored in the variable you just created.

 

[TheRealMrSketch]

You know what, that would make sense. It is going to be a little bit a hard coding but it will be a little easier. My original plan was to make it so that you would step on the teleporter and it would teleport you back to whatever room you originally came out of depending on the room you are currently in. I think this idea will work since I want to do a "Campaign" map pack kinda thing where its 5 levels per section. I think this will be easier. Thanks!

 

[TsukaYuriko]

Instead of defining teleport locations via instance variables, you could also define the teleport target as a global variable in the room creation code. This only works if every room always has exactly one "negative" version, though.

 

[gnysek]

My prediction is, that you have global.fliproom = false; in creation code of this "teleport" object, so it's get reset in new room.

 

[TheRealMrSketch]

Its fine. I have a solution for the problem. What I did was create two different game objects with the mechanics I want. I make a teleporter Pos and a Tele Neg. The Positive will take the player to the next room and the Negative will take you back to the previous room. The solution also created another problem. I want the player to be positioned on top of the teleporter after I moved to the next room. anyone know how to do that?