Event Cycling?

[Dymdez]

I am making a scenario where boulders spawn and roll down through a cave and the player has to duck into side rooms in order to evade the boulders, which, if they hit the player, will kill him! Is there a simply way of making boulder events spawn indefinitely on a map and follow the same move route? Or do I have to actually make each individual boulder event?

 

[Ruiran]

Well you could make the boulder event move ( teleport ) back to the location it was before when it reaches the bottom of a map ?

Spoiler

 

[Dymdez]

so basically, shut the graphic off, jump the position back to the start and re-run the move route? I figured there was a way to do it like this, but I was primarily wondering if there was a script or function that I was unaware of that did exactly this. Isn't it a little weird that this obvious function doesn't exist?

 

[Ruiran]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjV6SRJROc This should work for "cycling" your events. 

 

[Dymdez]

Wow - I can't believe this exists I am going to make so many mini games with this script thanks so much!

Yes -- this is indeed quite useful thanks

 

[Tsukihime]

You just need to use "set event location" and move that boulder back to where you want it to go.

 

[Dymdez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjV6SRJROc This should work for "cycling" your events. 

do you know if I can use an event that has brackets [ ] in its name? because it isnt working for an event of mine titled [boulder]

it is working otherwise, but i need the brackets for other reasons

 

[Shaz]

You don't normally use event names in scripts, but their numbers. I haven't looked at the video (and can't while I'm at work).


Can you show a screenshot of your event?

 

[Dymdez]

I sorted the problem out -- it was a script of mine interfering with it, when I started a new project the script worked fine and spawned many a boulder. And yes, this script is odd in that it uses the event name rather than ID. To make matters more confusing, it claims that you can use the ID too but doesn't explain exactly how, typing the number in does not work.

 

[Shaz]

Looks like you should just be able to do this:


<spawn-id 5>

 

[Dymdez]

haha yea, it looks like it, but ya can't