Another Galv's map projectile predicament

[deveras111]

Hey guys, so I'm having a little bit of trouble with this plugin again. What I'm trying to accomplish is basically a game where the player goes around a dungeon, lighting individual torches and different light sources using fire projectiles. Everything was going fine except now for some reason, every time I light one torch, all other torches in the room become lit. This kind of defeats the purpose of the game since the plan is I would require the player to work out puzzles in which torches are lit and to be mindful of how many projectiles they have in their arsenal and which torches they light.

The way I have it set up right now, every time I shoot a projectile and it hits a torch, it increases a variable value by one, thereby switching the torches to their second event page with contains an animation for them being lit, and a sound effect. I've done this by attaching the projectile script to a common event that increases a variable value. All the other torches have an identical set up.

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I have no idea why it's doing this at all. From what I see I have my set up pretty similar to that of Galv's in his demo of the Plugin. Admittedly it is a bit different considering I'm trying to accomplish a different goal, but for the most part, it seems pretty similar to me. Maybe I'm missing a script somewhere?

Here is a link to the plugin:https://galvs-scripts.com/2016/09/13/mv-map-projectiles/

If there are any tutorials on this plugin please let me know, I've looked everywhere.

 

[shockra]

At first glance, if the variable is used as the conditional to show the lit torch, and lighting the torch adds +1 to the variable, all the torches will appear lit because they all check the same variable. You need to have a separation of some kind to ensure that the other torches don't light up.

What I would do is use a self switch on each torch that activates when that torch is lit. The variable can still be used, but don't make that a condition to show a lit torch. Regular switches will also work, but a different switch will be required for each torch.

 

[deveras111]

At first glance, if the variable is used as the conditional to show the lit torch, and lighting the torch adds +1 to the variable, all the torches will appear lit because they all check the same variable. You need to have a separation of some kind to ensure that the other torches don't light up.

What I would do is use a self switch on each torch that activates when that torch is lit. The variable can still be used, but don't make that a condition to show a lit torch. Regular switches will also work, but a different switch will be required for each torch.

How does one go about doing that? I tried changing the common event from increasing the variable value to +1, to switching self switch to A but now it doesn't light at all.

 

[Hyouryuu-Na]

Don't use common events. Turn on self switches when the projectile hit the lights. Make an event page with condition self switch on. There make the event graphic the lit up torch.

 

[deveras111]

Don't use common events. Turn on self switches when the projectile hit the lights. Make an event page with condition self-switch on. There make the event graphic the lit up torch.

Okay, this actually worked! There actually is a way to set the projectile to activate the self-switch A of an event, and now it only lights up the torch that I hit with a projectile! The weird part is, whenever I hit a different torch with the projectile, the animation still only plays for the first torch? I don't really understand how that is even happening.

 

[Hyouryuu-Na]

Can you show screenshots of tge event pages?

 

[deveras111]

Can you show screenshots of tge event pages?

Okay, wow, I figured out what I was doing wrong. In copy and pasting the event to other torches, I wasn't changing the "show animation on event 5" on each individual new torch, so I was basically telling the event to only show it on that torch

Thank you @Hyouryuu-Na and @shockra you helped me out a lot!