limiting events

[willow]

i want to be able to limit an event:

player smashes vase a bonus appears and player can pick it up.

im now moving between frames back and forth how do i limit the event so i can not pick it up again.

[nivram]

once a playerpicks it up,set a Global Value to 1.

In the event:

Player overlaps object
>Destroy Object
>Set Global Val A to 1

Global Value A =1
>Only one action when event loops
>Object: Destroy

Marv

[willow]

thanks what if i want to pick it up again in a different place?

[lost_child]

Here is a quick example (I made a while back for someone else) that uses the array to keep track of which items have been picked up.

The events in the two frames are nearly identicle... For the second frame, I cloned the first frame and changed the "next frame" event to "jump to frame 1". This was only to illustrate that the array will keep track of the items from frame to frame.

Alien Collects Stars

/edit/

I wrote this some time ago... I didn't know much about fastloops at the time. I just looked at the events and saw some ways to make it better.

Event 11 and the Global Value labeled "Kill Counter" can be deleted.

Change the second event on line 12 to
ID of ("Star")=loopindex("Kill Loop")

[nivram]

I would use a completely different object and set a different Global Value.

Marv

[willow]

hi thanks for the file i made the changes you suggested and run the app.

i only left 1 star in the fist frame and left the all the stars in the second one.
so if i pick up the star in the first frame go to the second pick these all up and retun to the first frame the star reappears and i can pick it up again.

what i want is if you pick it up and go back it stays destroyed and you cannot go back and pick it up on each visit.

the pick up in question is part of a task you must collect a specified number to complete the task so i dont think i could use a different active like nivam suggested.

can you help?

thanks for the example