Can anyone help me with this please?

[yidrock]

hi there,

i was just wondering if anyone could help me with something im trying to do in a game im creating in mmf2

i have made an animated button in an active box which slowly flashes, i have been able to go into the conditions menu and make it so that when i press the enter button it will make it flash quicker (i did this by making a second animation to make it flash faster) but the trouble i'am having is i want that button to flash faster for 3 seconds and then fade away but i cannpt find the right way to do this in the conditions page

i'am sorta new to this program does anyone know how to get this to happen? thank you for reading

[Paul_Boland]

How are you making the button flash? If it's an animation, create a copy of that animation into a new animation, call it FlashFaster, and check the animation speed so it does flash faster. Set it to loop 3 times.

In the Event Editor, set up your coding so that when the Enter key is pressed, the button jumps to the FlashFaster animation. Then when the animation has played out, set up coding to change the buttons semitransparency, always adding 1 to it, until it is at 128 which is totally transparent (invisible).

[yidrock]

Hey paul thanks very much for the response, i will give what you said a try thanks

[yidrock]

Yep! That worked fine thanks! the thing is when this happens it goes back to the original animation that displays before the press start button function happens, so In the event editor I put when the animation (the one you showed me how to make) finishes, I put in a command for the active object to become destroyed, and that worked it faded away and didn't come back, but the problem i'am now facing is this, I have assigned a sample .wav sound effect to when you select the press start button and that works, but when the button disappears you press the button again and it still sounds no matter how many times you press the same button it keeps sounding, do you know how to make this sound only the once when pressed?

[takki]

seems like it doesnt really destroy then, but to keep it simple you could put in a limit condition - run only once or base it on that the button needs to be playing the stopped animation

[yidrock]

Yep that worked! Brilliant! Now I've made an option title linking onto that and what's happened now is I've made 'press start button' when I press enter, and made that fade away and bring up 1p game 2p game and options, I assigned the enter button to the 'options' and then when the application starts I press enter for the press start button and the menu I linked for options comes up without going to the next menu selection, this is because the enter button is assigned to both titles and I can't make those function exclusively to the titles, do you know what I mean? A but hard to explain.

I really appreciate the help you've given me so far thanks