Change character tile on entering room

Pulp
1

What's wrong with this code? Something painfully obvious is happening here.

// trying to get char sprite to change on entering room
// switching between portrait to landscape orientation
on enter do
	tell event.player to
		swap "playerLandscape"
	end
end

Broader question, why am I so bad at Pulpscript? The Pulpscript guide is supposedly good... people seem to like it. But for me it seems to withhold whatever key information I need at any given time.

2

Is there a better reference?

3

I agree the Pulpscript guide is really confusing at first. In my experience it took some time for me before it 'clicked' and I understood it.
What you shared looks correct from what I can tell.

Here's a couple things to check that have made me stumble in the past-

  • Make sure you have the 'on enter' event in the room's script (and not in the player/game/wherever)

  • Make sure the tile "playerLandscape" is exactly the same name in both the code and the tile/room editor. This includes capitalization and spaces. (I've been done in MANY times by accidentally having a space at the end of the tile name..)

  • Check that you don't have code running elsewhere that is also telling the player tile to swap (scripted idle animations, walkcycles, etc)

  • Idk if this is a common issue but I often have to close out of the tab running the simulator and reopen it with the play button for any changes to actually show.