Impossible to get transparency of counter object?

[Jacob]

Instead of setting the transparency, set an alterable value. THen, Always set the transparency to the value. YOu'll be able to retrieve transparency via this value.

[Konidias]

Okay, so a workaround for this:

Give your counter pinball movement. Set all values to 0 and uncheck move at start.

Then in events do this:

Always
- Set Speed (of counter) to Speed + 4 (change 4 to however fast you want to add up to 128)
- Set Semi-Transparency (of counter) to Speed (of counter)

Speed (of counter) >= 128
- Destroy Counter

Of course, this only works if you're not using some other built-in movement for the counter. But it works anyway.

[Konidias]

@Jacob

Counters don't have alterable values so you'd have to do some object pairing in order to get a counter to set it's transparency based off of some other object's alterable value. Which might be more trouble than it's worth.

[ProdigyX]

Ty Konidias for the pinball movement suggestion.

Problem = Fixed

[mobichan]

You can use a text blitter object or the Character Image object for this as well. They both allow custom fonts and alt values.