Several Newbie Questions, PLEASE HELP

I'm new at TGF2, so please explain this very very well. I've only done the tutorial and made a 7-frame baseball game.

1. How do you make groups? Not object folders, but groups? I looked everywhere in the help section. Like group.1, group.2, etc. I've seen others do it.

2. How do you set what a global value does? Can you explain everything about them?

3. I have a sprite I made, and when the character (Link) stands, moves, fires arrows, etc. He stays on top of the ground he's on, but then when I have him swing his sword, he goes down behind the ground and swings it, and comes back into view after he's done. I tried moving the action point all around, and the only solution I found was by making events like this: [Link]
•Active Object [Link] plays animation "swinging" [set Y to "#"
That gets extremely tedious, and I can't set it for higher platforms from the main one. Please help. I'd like to know how to just get him to swing his sword in view.


Thanks for your time.

1 more question:

4. How can you make it so the user can save their position, exit the game, then load to the point they left off?

1. You can do groups by right-clicking in the event editor.

2. Global Values are Values that you can use to trigger events in the whole game, not only one frame. I think there are good tutorials somewhere, you could check
http://www.clickteam.com/eng/learning_resources.php.

3. I suppose setting the hot spot in the middle of the character in every frame should do it. (remember to set it in the stopped animation, too).

4. The link I posted has a tutorial for that, too. (If I remember right it uses INI files.)

Thanks, although the link doesn't work.
Hmm...putting the hotspot in the middle every time doesn't work either.

Weird. Let's wait for Clickteam to fix it. :)

Fixed it.

Well that didn't take too long.

You had a . on the end of the URL :)

Ok, thank you.

oops, my bad. :)

I couldn't find any tutorials there for the global values.

Can anyone explain to me Global Values? I'm trying to make it so when you pick your character's color, they'll be that color. Can anyone help?

Global Values are numbers that will stay the same and work between frames, as opposed to counters which aren't global. The same goes for global strings. If you are trying to set a characters color between frames, then this is what you need or global strings. If you set the color in the same frame as the game, then you don't have to use global values.

ok, thanks, I figured it out. :)