Simple question about OR statements

[pirodaggar]

Hypothetical event:

-CONDITION 1
-CONDITION 2
-Player not overlapping A or B
---Do things

From my understanding, I need to structure this as:

-CONDITION 1
-CONDITION 2
-Player not overlapping A
OR
-CONDITION 1
-CONDITION 2
-Player not overlapping B

(Logical and filtered do not matter, events pertain to player not A or B)


But is there a way to avoid the repetitions of condition 1 and 2?

[Jeff]

You could put A and B into a qualifier group and test that.
Then you wouldn't even need the OR condition.

[pirodaggar]

Well I am, I should have went into more detail in my original post.

I have a qualifier for objects which the player can land on, but because backdrops can't be added to qualifiers I need to add an OR statement to qualify for both. This wouldn't be a big deal, but I'm afraid as I delve into this project and events get into the possible 10 condition range, an OR statement for just this situation will just bog down the program when there might be an easier way to go about it.

[Jeff]

If they are backdrops you can't detect exactly which backdrop object the other object is overlapping -- its going to be an any of them or none of them type of situation.

[RickyRombo]

He means he has both backdrops and actives that the player can land on, I think.

I usually just make a new event. It messes up the scrolling to have a huge event.

[LB]

Why would you need a "Not Overlapping A or Not Overlapping B" event for? I can't think of a situation for that. Do you perhaps mean "Not Overlapping A and Not Overlapping B" ? For that you could just do both Not Overlapping conditions in the same event...

[Jacob]

He already explained. It pertains to backdrops and actives.

[LB]

I understand that part, but what I do not understand is the reason he wants to use or.

[MikeR]

I agree with LB

-CONDITION 1
-CONDITION 2
-Player not overlapping A
-Player not overlapping B
---Do things

Wouldn't this produce the desired results?

[pirodaggar]

@LB: Correct, it would. A bit of a goof on my part.

I need Player overlapping A or player overlapping B as well though, so the issue still stands.

@Jeff: I don't care which backdrop it's overlapping, just that it's overlapping one. The problem is I have a qualifier for all actives which stop the player, but also need to test for obstacles as well.



What I've ended up doing is setting up an event when I need to test an OR and testing against that --

-Player overlapping A
OR
-Player overlapping B
--- Flag 0 on

-Player not overlapping A
-Player not overlapping B
--- Flag 0 off

-CONDITION 1
-CONDITION 2
-Flag 0 on
---Do whatever


So far this seems to be working well, but as always you have to weary about the conditionals changing throughout the code if there's events between flag changing and "do whatever"'s. But this is a correctable issue where 15 conditionals in an event can cause more problems.