I'm working on a project which uses a view, which moves from the bottom of the room to the top.

It needs to have an object follow a path, left to right across the view. The path is working, however because the view is moving up, it causes the object to appear to shift downwards, instead of staying at the view's vertical position.

I've tried moving the object itself up every frame (both with 'jump to position' and 'set vertical speed'), which has no effect. Not sure what else to try.

Is there any way to move the path with the view? I'm using GM Pro.

Thanks,
Simon.

I followed this tutorial, because it is 99% similar to what i want.http://gamemaker.wikicomplete.info/helprequest:how-do-you-make-the-mouse-act-as-point. I want to be able to have a turret that follows the mouse in a 90 degree angle and stop past that, after following this tutorial, it works however, if i go past 90 degrees its flicks back to the original frame.

Sorry if it isn't explained very well but i quite literally started game making about 2/4 weeks ago :P

Thanks. Ryan.

Just to wet your appatite:

P.S. Any suggestions for the game, such as techniques and advice on how to do something, as well as opinions will be appreciated.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I have the Pro edition Game Maker.

EDIT by NicAdi

Please do NOT double-post; as a member, you do have the option to edit your posts…

The game starts when you first load the game up. All you see is a black screen with two options. Option 1:New Game. Option 2:Load. I wish there to be 2 or three save files so that i can have my friends play their seperate files when they go on my computer. Once you click(sound effect) on New game you go to a new black screen where you take a quick personality test with an odd number of questions. Questions will be: Are you female or male?, Do you consider yourself a hero or a villain ect. The reason you do this personality test is to choose which main character you will be using as there are 4. I was thinking that every time you chose a certain answer to a question that it adds a variable to each character. the character with the highest variable by the end of the questions is chosen to be played as the main character (aka the playable character. Do not call me crazy for doing this but i am making this game from 4 different point of views. You have chosen the character you wish to play it brings you to a character specific Title. screen where you are able to begin the game.

To be plain and simple I wish to know how
a. to make that menu/ personality test
b. to make cut scenes
c. to make selectable menu items
d. my idea is
e. I should go about making a battle system. Should i go with a live action battle system. or go with a adventure sidcrollling shooter sort of like the game "Cave Story"

example:

i first make a var. called xqv in the create event and set it to 1 this will be the gravity and another var called aaa set to 270 will be the direction of the gravity.

now in the step event i put:
1. create a gravity action
2. set its direction to aaa
3. set its gravity to xqv

this part works so far but i can't figure out how to make it so that inside "playing" the games exe. you can change it.

i was trying to make it so the gravity is a string. can any one help?

I have searched for tutorials on this everywhere, but they are either not detailed enough or are for creating a field of view in top-down shooters…can someone post a tutorial on this or point me to an existing tutorial on this?

thanks =)

 turnletters1[] = name1; 

I then want to count how many letters i have so then i can do this:

 amountofletters = found; for(a<=(found+1),a++) { turnletters1[a]; } 

Now… I know you can do this in pieces of code and scripts… but can it be done for all your resources?

First off, is there a way for me to make an enemy freeze in mid play for a set amount of time? Example: One of my bosses is a giant bullet bill that chases to main character until he dies, i want it so then after apporximately 20 seconds, he switched sprites, and stops moving for lets say 3 seconds, and thats when you can hit him to do damamge.
Second, how can i make it so after about half my enemies health it switches its move set completely. Example: An enemy runs to different spots around the room and shoots at the charcter, then moves again, but say after 5 hits agaisnt him, he starts jumping around trying to crush the character.
And last (for now *evil laughter*) how can i make it so certain spots on an enemy are immuned to damage? Example: An enemy could be a knight, with certain spots with skin showing, when you shoot the armour, nothing happens, but if you hit the skn, he gets damage.

Multiple instances of O_Target have to fire a constant stream of detection pebbles at 1-6 different objects if within range 200px (cpu will hate me)
Upon collision variable alert is set to 1 for O_Target and hell breaks loose for all instances of O_Target
System works, except for one little detail, when multiple instances of O_Target exist the targetting of detection pebbles fails.
(This is to prevent things from fireing at blank walls, and across levels, or random targets. as many instances of O_Target need to exist I can't use them like the individual squadmembers, of which only 6 will exist)

Heres the code for one object (Squadmate Paul) used in a step event of O_Target

paul=instance_nearest(x,y,O_Squadmate_Paul); //Set variable "Paul"
if point_distance(x,y,paul.x,paul.y)<200 //Set range to 200PX
{
instance_create(x,y,CTRL_Targetcontrol); //Create instance of detection pebble
CTRL_Targetcontrol.speed =10;
CTRL_Targetcontrol.direction = point_direction(x,y,O_Squadmate_Paul.x,O_Squadmate_Paul.y); //Set speed and direction
}

When paul is in range 150 of the target, he proceeds to fire: No more pebbles are created for either object (Not a big problem, it's one shot- one kill, and enemies have a bigger range)
And most importantly:
O_Target aims in about the same direction all the time (left-down-ish),but changes a little if Paul moves
Collision doesn't occur most of the time, so no kickin' firefight.

Any ideas why this might happen / suggestions to fix?
Thanks!

edit:

It seems to be that it uses the center of all O_Targets as a reference point for x and y for the object.

Any idea how to make this work? or am I stuck with this?

What decides which executes its actions first?
Order on your objects list?
Order in the room?
Depth?

Any suggestions for a simple game I can start with