I'm trying to create a simple start screen by swapping the player with a cursor tile, and setting Confirm to act differently based on the player's/cursor's y coordinates. I'd also like to swap back to the player's default tile upon exiting the screen.
For example I'm trying something like this:
on draw do
if event.room=="startscreen" then
swap "cursor"
end
end
on confirm do
if event.py==0 in "startscreen" then // go to starting area
goto x,y in "house"
elseif event.py==1 in "startscreen" then // restore last save point
restore
else
act
end
end
on exit do
if event.room=="startscreen" then
swap "down"
end
end
I tested this but I think I've made an error somewhere. Also the on exit part doesn't seem to work as intended either. Any ideas?
This isn't valid pulpscript unfortunately! You will need to separate out what you want to check into two lines:
if event.room=="startscreen" then
if event.py==0 then
// do something
end
end
As an aside, your on draw code is telling the player tile to swap every frame which isn't necessary, you only need to swap it once. I'd suggest using the room script's enter and exit events (which might fix your problem with your exit code too):
on enter do
tell event.player to
swap "cursor"
end
end
on exit do
tell event.player to
swap "down"
end
end
I see! I was unsure if I could use multiple if statements like that, since I didn't see any examples in the pulpscript docs. The startscreen menu is working now, and I added a third option (Start, Continue and Credits).
Here's an example of the current confirm script I'm using:
on confirm do
if event.room=="startscreen" then
if event.py==0 then // cursor next to Start option
// do something
elseif event.py==1 then // cursor next to Continue option
// do something
elseif event.py==2 then // cursor next to Credits option
// do something
end
else
act
end
end
Note: this could be used to create a simple level select screen as well.
When I tried using the room script's enter and exit events to swap the player tile, I found that the player only appeared as a "cursor" before any dpad movement occurred. This small bug was caused by the player's update event which swaps the player tile upon any directional movement, so I fixed this by adding another if statement to the player's update event.
on update do
if event.room== "startscreen" then
// do nothing
elseif event.dy==1 then
swap "down"
elseif event.dy==-1 then
swap "up"
elseif event.dx==-1 then
swap "left"
elseif event.dx==1 then
swap "right"
end
end
However, once one of the startscreen options are selected the "cursor" swaps back to the "down" player tile before exiting the room. I guess I'll need to find a way to briefly hide the player between confirming one of the startscreen options and transitioning to the next room. I'm thinking of making the "cursor" flash by playing a quick animation once one of the startscreen options is selected, and then hiding the player somehow until the game starts.
Anyway, thanks for your help once again orkn, you're a legend
The swap on exit being visible for a single frame before the room changes is something I've also hit before. It's because room transitions are split over two frames, the first where all the exit events are called for the old room and the second where all the enter events are called for the new room.
There's a pretty useful "trick" for delaying things in Pulp by a single frame, and that's to use wait with a value of 0. Try this and it might sort it out!
on exit do
wait 0 then
tell event.player to
swap "down"
end
end
end
Using wait 0 has fixed things for me on multiple occassions!
