Example: How to add door animations and various other tutorials

grhmhome · May 28, 2022, 4:09pm

Here is an example on how to add door animations:

Video example:

Create a door tile with 2 or more sprites.
One tile will be the door when it is closed. Another tile will be for when the door opens. You will want to duplicate these tiles for a separate door, especially if you plan on entering another room.

Player code:

on obeyType do
	if playerType=="player" then
		swap "player"
end
	if playerType=="player_door" then
		swap "player_door"
	end
end

Basically, you are going to want two or more player sprites. One for the player and a blank tile for when the player enters a door.

When you interact with a door, you should do something like this: player interacts with a door -> player inputs are ignored -> door sound plays -> door tile changes to open -> wait -> player changes sprite to a blank sprite and teleports somewhere out of the way, presumably to a blank part of the room -> door sound plays again-> door tile gets swapped back to the closed tile -> listen command so player inputs can be used again -> player teleports to next room. In the next room, you will want to make it where the player sprite is reverted back to main player sprite

door code:

on interact do
	ignore
	sound "open_close"
	tell 9,8 to
		swap "door_1_b"
		wait 2 then
			goto 2,2
			playerType = "player_door"
			tell "player" to
				call "obeyType"
				sound "open_close"
				tell 9,8 to
					swap "door_1_a"
					wait 2 then
						listen
						goto 10,8 in "room_b"
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

2nd door code (Same as door 1, with the tiles changed for the 2nd door)

on interact do
	ignore
	sound "open_close"
	tell 9,8 to
		swap "door_2_b"
		wait 2 then
			goto 2,2
			playerType = "player_door"
			tell "player" to
				call "obeyType"
				sound "open_close"
				tell 9,8 to
					swap "door_2_a"
					wait 2 then
						listen
						goto 8,8 in "room_a"
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

room code:

on enter do
	playerType = "player"
	tell "player" to
		call "obeyType"
	end
end

example.zip (2.5 KB)

grhmhome · May 29, 2022, 1:22am

I have added a new version of the tutorial. This time, we will be dealing with light switches. Info down below

light_switches

light_switch_demo.zip (3.1 KB)

How to add light swtiches: First, you are going to want to create 4 tiles, actually, just one, but we can duplicate it. You will want to make a light switch tile, duplicate it 3 more times and two of them should be flipped for the other room. For the light switch tiles, they should be called something like lightswitch_room1_on, lightswitch_room1_off, lightswitch_room2_on, and lightswitch_room2_off, just an example.

We are going to be removing the room code and instead adding that to the light switch tile code.
Also, we are going to want to create a new player tile called player_dark. You can duplicate your player tile, but invert the tile if you want. That is what I did.

lightswitch tile:

on enter do
	playerType = "player"
	tell "player" to
		call "obeyType"
	end
end

For the on switch tiles, you will want playerType to be "player" and for the off switch tiles, you will want the playerType to be "player_dark".

In the player code, we are going to want to add some more lines of code. When the player interacts enters a room with a on switch, the player will be the default player tile and when the player enters a room with a off switch, the player will be the player_dark tile.

on obeyType do
	if playerType=="player" then
		swap "player"
	end
	if playerType=="player_dark" then
		swap "player_dark"
	elseif playerType=="player_door" then
		swap "player_door"
	end
end

For the light switch tiles, you will want to use on interact do below your on enter do code.

Example code for the light switch:

	sound "switch"
	tell 9,9 to
		swap "light_switch_off"
		tell 6,6 to
			swap "darkness"
			tell 7,6 to
				swap "darkness"
				tell 8,6 to
					swap "darkness"
					tell 6,7 to
						swap "darkness"
						tell 7,7 to
							swap "darkness"
							tell 8,7 to
								swap "darkness"
								tell 6,8 to
									swap "darkness"
									tell 7,8 to
										swap "darkness"
										tell 8,8 to
											swap "darkness"
											tell 6,9 to
												swap "darkness"
												tell 7,9 to
													swap "darkness"
													tell 8,9 to
														swap "darkness"
														playerType = "player_dark"
														tell "player" to
															call "obeyType"
														end
													end
												end
											end
										end
									end
								end
							end
						end
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

Woah there partner, what does all this do? First, you are telling the tile when you interact with it to play a sound effect. When interacting with a light switch, this should happen: sound effect plays -> light_switch_on is swapped with light_switch_off, light walkable tiles are swapped with dark walkable tiles -> player sprite gets swapped with player_dark

This is what I did for the light switch sound effect.

Full code for light_switch_on for the first room.

on enter do
	playerType = "player"
	tell "player" to
		call "obeyType"
	end
end

on interact do
	sound "switch"
	tell 9,9 to
		swap "light_switch_off"
		tell 6,6 to
			swap "darkness"
			tell 7,6 to
				swap "darkness"
				tell 8,6 to
					swap "darkness"
					tell 6,7 to
						swap "darkness"
						tell 7,7 to
							swap "darkness"
							tell 8,7 to
								swap "darkness"
								tell 6,8 to
									swap "darkness"
									tell 7,8 to
										swap "darkness"
										tell 8,8 to
											swap "darkness"
											tell 6,9 to
												swap "darkness"
												tell 7,9 to
													swap "darkness"
													tell 8,9 to
														swap "darkness"
														playerType = "player_dark"
														tell "player" to
															call "obeyType"
														end
													end
												end
											end
										end
									end
								end
							end
						end
					end
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

For the off switch for the first room, you will want to change all the lines that say "darkness" to "white" and for the on enter do section, change playerType = player to playerType = player_dark and for the playerType in the interact do section, change that from "player_dark" to "player".

For the first room you should have the light switches be called something like room1_lightswitch_on and the off switch tile to room1_lightswitch_off.

For the second room, have the two light switches be called something like room2_lightswitch_on and room2_lightswitch_off. The light switch tiles should be flipped depending if you are using a isometric perspective or something. Also, you will want to change the x,y coordinates for each tile you are swapping in the 2nd room, especially if the walkable tiles are in different spots. When you mouse over a tile in a room, you should see the x and y coordinates of that tile.

Hopefully this was a helpful guide. If you have any questions, suggestions, criticisms, or whatever, please let me know.