This tutorial was super helpful, but my player isn’t going to the X and Y points I put in the creation code when they warp, they just change Roos and stay in the same spot
What a well explained tutorial! I took my time and watched it until the end. I have started to develop my game by following these wonderful steps and am really motivated and enjoying my progress as well. Kindly I would love to watch more tutorials and please continue to provide more for many to benefits. Thank you so much cheers buddy.
im having an issue .. ive followed what was shown and so far everything works, except for the coordinates the problem im having is that my character can teleport to the next room, but they will not teleport to the coordinates meant for it to spawn at, but rather spawn in the exact coordinates as it came in. im using the newest version of game maker i believe, and im still new at learning how the engine works, any help works!
You must stop the ability to move once you begin to warp, otherwise your player will execute their last movement code, something like x += 5, and it will warp back to its previous x. At least that’s probably what it is.
2 things 1: THANK YOU! for actually responding to me about the problem! means a lot to me, and 2: now that i think about that, that actually does make sense, ill look into it more and see if theres something i could write up to pause the player's input for a sec while warping, once again thank you!
i think i figured it out lol turns out if your player is set to solid from the little tick Box, it breaks the whole process, but if you don't tick solid, it works perfectly fine! once again thank you so much!
i followed this exactly but im having this issue where it wont change the x and y value of the player object at all, only switching to the next room with no change in the player objects location
Hey! great tutorial andf it working for me! but im having an issue where when i hit the warp it brings me to the next room but the target x and target y variables dont work.could you help?
this was helpful, thank you. I was trying to figure this out on my own and it was quite a mess. I had like 10 different door objects and for each new door i tried to make a new door object... but it didn't work that well. This is better.
I used this tutorial in two of my projects and it cames out that it works but targetX and targetY are working strange and I don't know how to fix it; the player will be teleported in total different side of the room from the x and y I've setted. I also tried to cange the X and The Y slowly to reach a position that would work for me but it doesn't move
I have literally copy and pasted the variable names from my create event to my player collision event and it still says in my create event that the variables are only being referenced once. Please help.
man that was a really helpful video. one thing though. u do not need two separate sprites for the left or right. i had actually faced this problem first. but after some trial and error,i wrote a code which successfully flipped my character just like yours does without two sprites.😃
It is true, it's not necessary if the Sprite looks the same left and right, like here. However, if the character had a weapon on one side or something else was different on one side, you would want different sprites for left and right.
i know this video is a little bit old but, i have a problem when i put my player in persistent mode, i cant use restart_room(); how i can fix that ? i'm making a platform game so i need the restart room for when the player falls in the void he can go back in the start of the room
@@LetsLearnThisTogether my player just falls and stay falling, he don't restart the room, i'm using a object with collision with restart room, but when i use Persistent in player my character stay falling but when i'm not using, the room resets normally
I suppose that makes sense. Because it's persistent it wouldn't change with that function. You'll need to manually reset the player then, by moving their x and y to the start location at the same time you call room_restart.
Hey so my character wont appear in the other room unless I make a second character in room 2 but then i cant go back and forth into the rooms freely without my character glitching into the ground. sup with that
as a beginner, i can tell your videos are very helpful! mayb i have an idea for a video perhaps when u run out of ideas lol, im trying to make a popup menu that displays other menus in it (like saving or items, etc.) but i have problems controlling their indexs when all of them are running, just a derp idea lol, peace
The code for GML hasn’t changed, so it will still work now. Double check where you’re going, and that you’re not landing on the other warp to return yourself to the first room
@@LetsLearnThisTogether I manage to make it work by unchecking the ''solid'' mark on my player sprite object. Thanks for the reply tho! I'll make sure to check more of your videos since you reply to the videos no matter how old they are! ^.^
Not being able to save sounds like a bug. Try closing and reopening GameMaker. If that doesn’t work, try saving your project after doing anything else. If that still fails uninstall and reinstall.
Thank you so much for your tutorials. Quick question though, my first warp works completely smooth and fine, but when she tries to go back, she cant walk up to the warp, it's like something is blocking her just a block or so away from the warp
Hmm, odd. Do you have some collision checking in there somewhere? If you can access the first warp, then it is probably something else in your game preventing you from reaching the second.
My suggestion is to use the debugger when you change rooms and follow your code. Something is moving you, but I can’t say what without seeing your project.
Pressed? Like your screen distorts? That’s probably because you’ve got a camera and views in your rooms, and they’re not the same dimensions. When you use a camera, you’ve got to make sure your dimensions are in line with each other.
Hey, i have a few issues; For one, the rooms merge, but one turns into a sort of picture, while the other the player can interact with. Another is that the player is cloned and leaves a trail of itself behind itself, sort of like a card when you win solitaire. It'd be great to know where i went wrong, thanks!
Oh god, I've spent two hours trying to figure out why the X and Y doesn't work. Instead of teleporting the player to the X and Y positions, the player is appearing in room 2 in the same position where the warp object is located in room 1. I haven't found the issue (yet), but I'm already exhausted. If I'll figure it out, I'll make sure to edit this comment so others can see it in case they encounter the same problem.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether Phew! Haha, thank you for the offer. I haven't figured out why your code doesn't work, so I have instead created more complicated system xDD I've created a persistent object that checks for the player: //-----Check for player if (instance_exists(obj_player)) { instance_destroy(obj_player) instance_create_depth(255, 45, 99, obj_player) } else if (!instance_exists(obj_player)) { instance_create_depth(255, 465, 99, obj_player) } //if instance_exists(obj) then delete instance and create new one //else !instance_exists(obj) then just create new one Player is not persistent. So, since the player doesn't exist in the second room, when he enters the second room, it spawns him at the coordinates I want him to spawn. And, since he already exists in the first room, when he comes back, it deletes him and spawns him at different coordinates. It works with what I want to do. Just a heads up for anyone who might be reading this. If you have a third room, fourth room, etc., it will always spawn the player at the same X and Y coordinates as in room 2. So, this only works if you have two rooms. However, you might be able to create another object that destroys the player check object and overrides it with its code. :D
@@LetsLearnThisTogether this is my same issue with mine. I thought I was going crazy, but then I downloaded your project and it happens there also. I'm using GMS2 and I think the version of GM is the issue. 😞
I freaking got it. Although I saw your comment that a new version of this tutorial was available I noticed that the warp object had to be persistent for the coordinates to be set to the player object. Thanks a bunch anyway 🙂
Hey, I'm not sure if you have another video covering similar stuff but I was wondering how to have the screen fade to black when you hit a warp block then fade back in when you enter the next room.
It appears I don't, although it's on my list to do very soon. What you can try though, is basically creating an object that's black and fills up your entire screen. Make it transparent at first, then decrease its transparency slowly when you hit the warp, and reverse on the other side.
Beyond Us Games ok I’ll give that a try, if it’s not too much to ask do you know if there’s like a command or something to use when dealing with transparency ?
thank you, easy to understand, speedy, you are the best. gracias, fácil, rápido. eres el mejor, es lo que uno busca, tutoriales rápidos y fáciles de entender.
I have a problem at 3:46, if I write " var targetroom, targetX, targetY; " then it gives me yellow triangle and says " variable targetY only referenced once " what does that mean?
Var is a keyword that creates a local variable, only usable in that event. Go ahead and remove it. The warning sign means it hasn’t been used anywhere else, and if you see this outside of a create event you’ve probably got a typo.
But how do you make a transition in the menu like the splash screen of Undertale or the starting where it talks about the story itself? It has a slight transition where it moves to a black screen and then to the main menu for the splash screen and the next part of the story for the story part! I want to learn how to do that!! In other words, how do you make transitions without even moving a character? Like a timer that transitions you to the next scene! WITHOUT the character of course!
It sounds like what you want is a cutscene, where things happen on their own, or in a specific sequence you've laid out. The best way to do this is up for debate, but a simple way is to make a variable and set it to 0 (call it whatever), and in your step event have a series of switch statements or ifs, that do something at each increase of the variable. Such as: if (variable == 0) { //code to create a black rectangle over the screen ++variable } if(variable == 1) { ///draw text to the screen for a while, when done, increase variable again. } And so on and so forth.
Question, How would I keep the player's initial position before the teleportation? I am using the teleporter as a barrier which leads to the next room, and I want to keep some position depending on if the barrier is on the x axis or the y axis
You have to make sure the player isnt moving. // Check for collision with o_warp if (place_meeting(x + hspeed, y, o_warp)) || (place_meeting(x, y + vspeed, o_warp)) { // If colliding with o_warp, stop movement hspeed = 0; vspeed = 0; } the place_meeting will stop the player movement coordinates and it should teleport them to targetX and targetY now.
this is a great tutorial but the thing is in the creation code when I warp to rooms, the player is set to the area where the warp is and doesnt use target_x and target_y. please help.
Typically this is because after you run into the warp you’re still allowing the player to move, and that move logic actually runs off the old x and y of the player, not the new one. What I’d suggest is when you run into the warp, pause all input from the player, move and warp, and then resume input. Typically that kind of logic is controlled by a state machine.
@vrtexxradiation //code when you hit warp cantMove = true //in your movement code if (cantMove == false) { //regular code for movement } //start of new room cantMove = false That’s as simple as you can get. You can’t move when you begin warping and you can move any other time.
hi when I write var targetRoom, targetX, targetY; in the war, this menssage happending variable target Y reference only reference once with a this signal (!) what i do?
That means you've got it spelled differently somehow and aren't referencing it more than one time, which you probably need to be doing. So double check your spelling on all of it.
So, in trying this I'm able to get the player to swap rooms, however if I set the player Object to persistent, it switches rooms, but doesn't change the X Y Coords, leaving the obj where the tp was in the prior room. However if I turn player persistence off, it tp's them to the correct coordinates, but I cannot see the player for obvious reasons. Any ideas why persistence may be blocking changing my players x and y coords?
Persistence doesn’t affect x and y, it must be something else. It may be that you’re setting x and y when the player enters any room, or something else is moving them back. Put a breakpoint on when the player moves room and go through your code, you’ll find something that moves them. Or perhaps you have another player object already in that new room
@@LetsLearnThisTogether I think I figured it out. I believe my order was messed up. I now have an alarm trigger when the player hits the collider, a var stops the player from being able to move, the screen fades to black, sets the coords, swaps the room, black fades away and then the playermove var resets. Pretty seamlessly I may add! Great tutorial and honestly crazy that you respond to comments. Thank you!
Hello, I have done this twice and typed word for word, ive also used other ways to port into the room but EVERYTIME he ports to the same place, can you help? nothing will override the location he gets ported too everything, and i never set anything up. is it a room setting? he is appearing the same place he is in the first room, so its like he is only switching rooms and not porting, thanks
Hello! Loved the tutorial and subscribed, looking forward to checking out the rest of your content. However I am having a bit of an issue getting it to work correctly. When my player object hits the warp the room changes but I'm unable to see my player object in the new room. I'm fairly certain it's actually there because if I press up as if to back my player up into the return warp it transitions me back to the previous room. I only have 2 layers (Instances and backgrounds).
+Ikari Well then, that's odd. It sounds as though your player's visible variable gets set to false when you go through the warp, but that seems unlikely.. Why don't you export the project and email it to me Aaron Craig. I always enjoy finding unique bugs.
Thanks! I've sent the email over to beyondusgames@gmail.com. It's probably something really minor and silly that I've missed so I apologise in advance.
Just incase anyone else runs into the same issue somehow, the depth of my layers were out of whack so give them a look! Thanks again, Beyond, much appreciated!
I got some problem here, it seem that my player go to another room but I can't see it in the new room however if I walk to the warp I can go back to the first room and I can see my player again. I don't know what happen :((
If you’ve marked persistent, he’s there. But he may be off screen or hidden behind a layer. If you know the debugger, run that and check his depth in both rooms. If you don’t know the debugger, add a debug_message function in your player and have them write out their depth and then compare to the layers in both rooms. My guess is you have a background layer your player is moving to, hidden behind it
@@LetsLearnThisTogether Yes the object appear ! but even if i choose the X and Y location it always appear in the same place ... then it fall in the void. What to do ?
i have tried several tuts and none work, i followed everything but whenever i touch the warp part, it just freezes my game ( it gets stuck in its current position and like completely freezes )
If it freezes, do you have to force close the application (just pressing x doesn’t work)? If so, you’re in an endless loop somehow. This could be by an actual while loop, or by warping your one room and immediately warping back to another, and doing this endlessly. Try starting by just having a warp in 1 room to another, without anything in that new room.
When I collide with something else while I'm colliding with the teleport, it doesn't move my character properly and keeps its position the same while teleporting to the other room. What do I do?
It sounds like you’ve got some extra code beyond mine interfering with the teleporting. Colliding with another instance shouldn’t mess up warping, so double check your code against mine to see if you can spot a difference.
PLEASE HELP.... I did the warp like he said and made sure my player is on persistent. When I go into the next my player doesn't appear. if I try to move back to the warp it puts me back to the original room?????? I don't know what to do?????
Your player is still there. Sounds like in the other room, your instance later is below tiles or something else, so make sure those are in the correct order.
I thought the same thing but it is a new room and it only has background and the instances it starts with (GAMEMAKER STUDIO 2). I sent yoyo games a message and even my project to show them. I even have a TEST project aside from my main project and it does the same thing. I don't know??? Got any other ideas? I thought about doing a instance create inside the instance of the warp. Also, thank you for your time in helping me with this.
Thank you so much! This is so good video😳 I have a one question. I can change room this object. But this one is indicated under the map tips next room. How do this problem resolve？😢
Hey, Not totally sure what you’re asking. Are your characters disappearing when you change rooms? If so, check the depth on your instances later between rooms, as if they’re different, then problems can happen.
Probably none will reply. There is a method to set the targetX and targetY to a precise instance? I mean, the problemi with the solution of the video is that if I wanted to move the portal I have to change the position of the respawn everytime. Can I link two portal in which doesn't matter where I put theme they are always linked? Or is it impossible
Do you mean 2 portals in the same room? In that case, you could, yes. A little bit of work, but you could use instance_find to find the other portal, and then set the ID to that. If it’s another room, that’s much more difficult. You can, but you’ll need to go into that room, save it’s ID in a file, and then read that file and get the info and put it in the other warp. Not super easy, but possible.
Hmm. I did everything right and the collision won't work. For example, when I run into the warp, nothing happens. Doesn't even have collision. Solutions?
Check out my newest collision video with a similar name. It covers issues like this more thoroughly. The problem is probably from both of your objects being marked as solid. Uncheck that and try it.
i made 2 gates - one gate from level0 to level1, one gate from level0 to level2 but the level0 to level2 gate didnt work, it juz pause the game and the coding looks the same, only the destination n room target are different right? wut did i missed here?
That’s odd. If it pauses the game then you may be stuck in a loop from moving from one room to the next, because you set the coordinates on the gates. Make sure you’re spawning not on a gate.
Beyond Us Games it seems that its not a pause but a crash. Idk wut happened here but i delete the room n duplicate level1 to be level2 as the gate level0 to level1 worked. But ididnt think about theres possibilities of having that loop. Ill try see to that if im makin the next level. I hope thats the case.
Music is different because once it starts it will continue running without an object. This means you really need a persistent object to keep track of your music. In the room star event, you can check which room you’re in and stop and start music as needed in there.
Thanks for the video! It really helped! But one thing, when the player transitions rooms, it goes to the coordinates of the previous warp point, just on the new room. I dont get any errors, and I've checked the code a few times now, could you help me out?
Check out my updated version of this video that covers some common issues. I’m not quite sure what your issue is, it sounds kind of unique. So you’re saying you hit a warp block and it moves you but it moves you to the coordinates of a totally different warp block?
I made it so that you have to click this icon instead of touching the warp because my game only has 2 rooms, but for some reason, even if my character is on persistent, when i teleport to the room he doesn't appear, i tried making the warp collision based but the player still doesn't show up, does anyone know what is happening?
First determine if the player is transferring or not by using the debugger. You can use it to see if the object does move to the new room. If not, you may have a bug. If it does move to the new room, then check depth and drawing objects as you’ve probably got your player behind something in your new room.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether I put in the wrong x and y positions i accidently mixed up the x and y, so i was stuck in a wall in the corner and i didn't see the player i fixed it though
I am in game maker studio 2 and when I transition to a room then come back to my original room the non persistanct objects do not load. How do I make the non persistanct objects load again so my room looks the same when I go back into it????
That's a strange issue. Are you deleting those objects before you leave? A persistent room should stay the same when you leave and come back. If you want the room to totally reset each time you enter, make sure the room isn't persistent.
Nice tutorial but my character disappears after he walked into the warp. The screen does switch to another room. And how do I make the warp object invisable?
Hi i have a problem , i did the tutorial , it worked and i thank you for making the video , but i made an menu , at the start and now i freezes evry time i hit new game if in the room i want to start are any teleporters, why did that happend?
The only reason I can think it would freeze is if you’ve got a loop of teleporting between rooms. Such that you start in room a, then immediately get teleported to room b, and then immediately back to a, and so on. Check where you’re teleporting and make sure that’s not happening.
hey, ive never had this issue in the past but now room1 overlaps room0 when i warp. Room0 doesnt disappear, it just stays in the background while my new room is in the corner. How can i fix this?
@@LetsLearnThisTogether yeah basically? The only way I could fix this was by using a camera/viewpoint, making the screen zoom in so much you only see that room.
Could be a lot of different reasons. Do you have your character in both rooms? Are you setting their positions immediately or after a delay? And if there’s a delay, is the warp object set to persistent? Is there code in your player to move them when they change rooms?
i dont think this code works in the newer versions of GML. i copied everything exaclty and it keeps saying the variables are unset and trying to walking into the warp tile just crashes the game.
the warp works but they arent warped to the right coordinates, also i keep getting "targetY only referenced once" despite it being used as told. thank you!
nice video bruh. but i have some problem. the code seem work but when i try run it. my player enter the other room but i cant see my player. invisible. i dont know where my player go n cant go back to the main room. can u help me?
Is your player marked as persistent? If not they won't be taken to the other room. If they are persistent, you need to check your room layers, as your player could be on a layer lower than the visible lower, causing your player to act invisible.
This is a common issue. The most likely problem is that when you try to go back to the first room it warps you onto the warp in the first room, which then takes you right back to the second room. Try moving the warps around and see if that helps.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether Hi i'm also having this issue, even when I delete the warp panel from the second room, I keep getting the error when i move back to where I warped from "ERROR in action number 1 of Step EventobPlayerOrange for object ObjWarp: Variable ObjWarp.targetRoom(100003, -2147483648) not set before reading it. at gml_Object_ObjWarp_Collision_ObMotherGoblin (line 3) - room_goto(targetRoom); ############################################################################################ gml_Object_ObjWarp_Collision_ObMotherGoblin (line 3)"
+홍영준 If you post it here, I can give you some help. Also look through the other comments to see if it's the same fatal error, because if so the answer is in there.
############################################################################################ FATAL ERROR in action number 1 of Step Eventobj_player for object obj_warp:Variable obj_warp.targetRoom(100002, -2147483648) not set before reading it. at gml_Object_obj_warp_Collision_9b2920bb_717d_403f_94d2_22d2301fddd7 (line 6) - room_goto(targetRoom); ############################################################################################But if I just delete warp object in the destination room, it works properly. Without any error!!
+홍영준 So when a variable isn't set, it means that you're trying to access it before giving it a value. I've seen this specific problem before. Check the warp block in the destination room and check its creation code. Are the values set in there? What can happen is you warp to the new room, instantly hit that warp block, and it tries to warp you back to the other room but its variables haven't been set yet.
+Ezra Holladay Thanks. Yeah, that's something I can do. There are some good tutorials out there on it, in the meantime. It's essentially creating an object the size of the room that's just black, and then changing its alpha value slowly over time to become transparent, if you wanted to try it out on your own.
Thank you, I would like to know if you could make a video where you click on an icon or button and go to the next room or other room, thank you for the video awesome help, thanks for your wisdom.
Certainly could, but all you need for that is to put the same code we have used in this video, and just add it in a mouse clicked event for that icon or object.
This tutorial was super helpful, but my player isn’t going to the X and Y points I put in the creation code when they warp, they just change Roos and stay in the same spot
I just tried out this tutorial. Very simple and straight to the point. Loved how you explained every detail, this really helped on my project. :)
What a well explained tutorial! I took my time and watched it until the end. I have started to develop my game by following these wonderful steps and am really motivated and enjoying my progress as well. Kindly I would love to watch more tutorials and please continue to provide more for many to benefits. Thank you so much cheers buddy.
Dude awesome video! I’m working on a jam right now and this video answered all my questions!
Nice! Best of luck on your jam.
Dude, thanks for this video. This is a really cool way to do it, I'll use this tomorrow.
Thank you very much, you helped me in a problem where I needed help, very good video bro, keep it up.
Danke!
im having an issue .. ive followed what was shown and so far everything works, except for the coordinates
the problem im having is that my character can teleport to the next room, but they will not teleport to the coordinates meant for it to spawn at, but rather spawn in the exact coordinates as it came in. im using the newest version of game maker i believe, and im still new at learning how the engine works, any help works!
You must stop the ability to move once you begin to warp, otherwise your player will execute their last movement code, something like x += 5, and it will warp back to its previous x.
At least that’s probably what it is.
2 things
1: THANK YOU! for actually responding to me about the problem! means a lot to me,
and 2: now that i think about that, that actually does make sense, ill look into it more and see if theres something i could write up to pause the player's input for a sec while warping, once again thank you!
i think i figured it out lol
turns out if your player is set to solid from the little tick Box, it breaks the whole process, but if you don't tick solid, it works perfectly fine! once again thank you so much!
@@johnjohnson2516 thank god for this comment i was going crazy thinking i mistyped something xD
muchas gracias por este tutorial, justamente necesitaba un objeto que llevara al jugador a otro nivel, simple, funcional y efectivo, GRACIAS :D
i followed this exactly but im having this issue where it wont change the x and y value of the player object at all, only switching to the next room with no change in the player objects location
I had the same problem and apparently it doesn't teleport the player if solid is on
Hey! great tutorial andf it working for me! but im having an issue where when i hit the warp it brings me to the next room but the target x and target y variables dont work.could you help?
Is it possible to place the warp off screen so when the player walks off screen, that’s when they appear in the next hall way?
Yeah. Objects off screen will still run their code and detect collisions.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether thanks!
Thank you.
I want to make a Zelda clone and I was stressing about this door to room thing.
Wish Zelda classic was more robust.
My boy has the League of Legends client in the background lmao what a legend
also epic games
this was helpful, thank you. I was trying to figure this out on my own and it was quite a mess. I had like 10 different door objects and for each new door i tried to make a new door object... but it didn't work that well. This is better.
I used this tutorial in two of my projects and it cames out that it works but targetX and targetY are working strange and I don't know how to fix it; the player will be teleported in total different side of the room from the x and y I've setted. I also tried to cange the X and The Y slowly to reach a position that would work for me but it doesn't move
I had the same problem and apparently it doesn't teleport the player if solid is on
I have literally copy and pasted the variable names from my create event to my player collision event and it still says in my create event that the variables are only being referenced once. Please help.
Yeah, I'm having the same issue. I'll reply if I figure out the fix. Do u have any ideas?
"I am not an artist" made me laugh weirdly enough, really helpful tutorial though 👍
man that was a really helpful video.
one thing though. u do not need two separate sprites for the left or right. i had actually faced this problem first. but after some trial and error,i wrote a code which successfully flipped my character just like yours does without two sprites.😃
It is true, it's not necessary if the Sprite looks the same left and right, like here. However, if the character had a weapon on one side or something else was different on one side, you would want different sprites for left and right.
Man, you just saved my night
can you help me. my warp warps me to the room I want, but it warps me to the coordinates that I entered the warp.
with me too lol, is this something of the new gamemaker versions?
Check out my updated version of this video for common errors and bugs, like this one that I breakdown.
It's not an issue with new versions. Check out my updated video. If you're still having issues, you can email me your project.
This video helped me a lot, Thanks.
IT'S SO HELPFUL OMG THANK YOU
i know this video is a little bit old but, i have a problem when i put my player in persistent mode, i cant use restart_room(); how i can fix that ? i'm making a platform game so i need the restart room for when the player falls in the void he can go back in the start of the room
Why can't you use restart room? What happens? What doesn't happen?
@@LetsLearnThisTogether my player just falls and stay falling, he don't restart the room, i'm using a object with collision with restart room, but when i use Persistent in player my character stay falling but when i'm not using, the room resets normally
I suppose that makes sense. Because it's persistent it wouldn't change with that function.
You'll need to manually reset the player then, by moving their x and y to the start location at the same time you call room_restart.
Hey so my character wont appear in the other room unless I make a second character in room 2 but then i cant go back and forth into the rooms freely without my character glitching into the ground. sup with that
Is your character set to be persistent? If not, they won’t move between rooms.
as a beginner, i can tell your videos are very helpful! mayb i have an idea for a video perhaps when u run out of ideas lol, im trying to make a popup menu that displays other menus in it (like saving or items, etc.) but i have problems controlling their indexs when all of them are running, just a derp idea lol, peace
It doesn't work in july of 2021, i go to warp, and it takes me at the exact same coordinated i am, just at the next room. How can i fix it?
The code for GML hasn’t changed, so it will still work now. Double check where you’re going, and that you’re not landing on the other warp to return yourself to the first room
@@LetsLearnThisTogether I manage to make it work by unchecking the ''solid'' mark on my player sprite object. Thanks for the reply tho! I'll make sure to check more of your videos since you reply to the videos no matter how old they are! ^.^
I have a weird problem : when I write code in the instance creation code, I cant save it, so the variables targetX and targetY arent referenced
Not being able to save sounds like a bug. Try closing and reopening GameMaker. If that doesn’t work, try saving your project after doing anything else. If that still fails uninstall and reinstall.
The tutorial worked... but for some reason exactly the same is not working in my main game. Can I send you the file to look at?
+NJ4K Sure. Email it to me at beyondusgames@gmail.com. Export it from within the game and send it my way
Thankyou
ı made my character persisdent when I get ın a room it works with no pronlem but when ı exit ı disappear
Thank you so much for your tutorials. Quick question though,
my first warp works completely smooth and fine, but when she tries to go back, she cant walk up to the warp, it's like something is blocking her just a block or so away from the warp
Never mind I figured out. Turned out my warp cords were off by a few points. Whoopsies.
Hmm, odd. Do you have some collision checking in there somewhere? If you can access the first warp, then it is probably something else in your game preventing you from reaching the second.
That worked perfectly fine well time to start coding for the other room now
When i walk into the next room i spawn in the wrong side. Can you please help :)
I'm having the same problem, have you found a solution?
My suggestion is to use the debugger when you change rooms and follow your code. Something is moving you, but I can’t say what without seeing your project.
thank you very much but when i go into the warp and i go to the other room my screen gets pressed can you help me with this??
Pressed? Like your screen distorts?
That’s probably because you’ve got a camera and views in your rooms, and they’re not the same dimensions.
When you use a camera, you’ve got to make sure your dimensions are in line with each other.
Hey, i have a few issues;
For one, the rooms merge, but one turns into a sort of picture, while the other the player can interact with.
Another is that the player is cloned and leaves a trail of itself behind itself, sort of like a card when you win solitaire.
It'd be great to know where i went wrong, thanks!
That is odd... Can you export your project and email it to me at beyondusgames@gmail.com? I'll look at it.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether hello can you please explain I have the same issue
For the second problem it is possible the background is missing
Oh god, I've spent two hours trying to figure out why the X and Y doesn't work. Instead of teleporting the player to the X and Y positions, the player is appearing in room 2 in the same position where the warp object is located in room 1. I haven't found the issue (yet), but I'm already exhausted. If I'll figure it out, I'll make sure to edit this comment so others can see it in case they encounter the same problem.
If you want, you can send me your project and I’ll take a look at it. Email me at aaron@letslearnthistogether.com
@@LetsLearnThisTogether Phew! Haha, thank you for the offer. I haven't figured out why your code doesn't work, so I have instead created more complicated system xDD
I've created a persistent object that checks for the player:
//-----Check for player
if (instance_exists(obj_player)) {
instance_destroy(obj_player)
instance_create_depth(255, 45, 99, obj_player)
}
else if (!instance_exists(obj_player)) {
instance_create_depth(255, 465, 99, obj_player)
}
//if instance_exists(obj) then delete instance and create new one
//else !instance_exists(obj) then just create new one
Player is not persistent. So, since the player doesn't exist in the second room, when he enters the second room, it spawns him at the coordinates I want him to spawn. And, since he already exists in the first room, when he comes back, it deletes him and spawns him at different coordinates.
It works with what I want to do. Just a heads up for anyone who might be reading this. If you have a third room, fourth room, etc., it will always spawn the player at the same X and Y coordinates as in room 2. So, this only works if you have two rooms.
However, you might be able to create another object that destroys the player check object and overrides it with its code. :D
@@LetsLearnThisTogether this is my same issue with mine. I thought I was going crazy, but then I downloaded your project and it happens there also. I'm using GMS2 and I think the version of GM is the issue. 😞
I freaking got it. Although I saw your comment that a new version of this tutorial was available I noticed that the warp object had to be persistent for the coordinates to be set to the player object. Thanks a bunch anyway 🙂
Hey, I'm not sure if you have another video covering similar stuff but I was wondering how to have the screen fade to black when you hit a warp block then fade back in when you enter the next room.
It appears I don't, although it's on my list to do very soon.
What you can try though, is basically creating an object that's black and fills up your entire screen. Make it transparent at first, then decrease its transparency slowly when you hit the warp, and reverse on the other side.
Beyond Us Games ok I’ll give that a try, if it’s not too much to ask do you know if there’s like a command or something to use when dealing with transparency ?
Yeah, it's image_alpha.
docs2.yoyogames.com/index.html?page=source%2F_build%2Findex.html
And I just put a video about it: th-cam.com/video/z_SYGyLegb0/w-d-xo.html
thank you, easy to understand, speedy, you are the best.
gracias, fácil, rápido.
eres el mejor, es lo que uno busca, tutoriales rápidos y fáciles de entender.
could you make a tutorial for how to put a cooldown on the warps? that sounds great
Just use an alarm, set the alarm value and call it when colliding.
I have a problem at 3:46, if I write " var targetroom, targetX, targetY; " then it gives me yellow triangle and says " variable targetY only referenced once " what does that mean?
Var is a keyword that creates a local variable, only usable in that event. Go ahead and remove it.
The warning sign means it hasn’t been used anywhere else, and if you see this outside of a create event you’ve probably got a typo.
But how do you make a transition in the menu like the splash screen of Undertale or the starting where it talks about the story itself? It has a slight transition where it moves to a black screen and then to the main menu for the splash screen and the next part of the story for the story part! I want to learn how to do that!! In other words, how do you make transitions without even moving a character? Like a timer that transitions you to the next scene! WITHOUT the character of course!
It sounds like what you want is a cutscene, where things happen on their own, or in a specific sequence you've laid out. The best way to do this is up for debate, but a simple way is to make a variable and set it to 0 (call it whatever), and in your step event have a series of switch statements or ifs, that do something at each increase of the variable. Such as:
if (variable == 0) {
//code to create a black rectangle over the screen
++variable
}
if(variable == 1) {
///draw text to the screen for a while, when done, increase variable again.
}
And so on and so forth.
Question, How would I keep the player's initial position before the teleportation? I am using the teleporter as a barrier which leads to the next room, and I want to keep some position depending on if the barrier is on the x axis or the y axis
I tried this, it works, but even though I specified the targetX and targetY, it doesn't set them in the next room.
You have to make sure the player isnt moving.
// Check for collision with o_warp
if (place_meeting(x + hspeed, y, o_warp)) || (place_meeting(x, y + vspeed, o_warp)) {
// If colliding with o_warp, stop movement
hspeed = 0;
vspeed = 0;
}
the place_meeting will stop the player movement coordinates and it should teleport them to targetX and targetY now.
this is still great even 7 full years later
my player gets stuck when walking in the warp and doesnt warp? im so confused
Check out the updated version. I try to address all the possible mistakes you can make.
this is a great tutorial but the thing is in the creation code when I warp to rooms, the player is set to the area where the warp is and doesnt use target_x and target_y. please help.
Typically this is because after you run into the warp you’re still allowing the player to move, and that move logic actually runs off the old x and y of the player, not the new one. What I’d suggest is when you run into the warp, pause all input from the player, move and warp, and then resume input. Typically that kind of logic is controlled by a state machine.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether can you show me an example?
@vrtexxradiation
//code when you hit warp
cantMove = true
//in your movement code
if (cantMove == false) {
//regular code for movement
}
//start of new room
cantMove = false
That’s as simple as you can get. You can’t move when you begin warping and you can move any other time.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether ah thanks
Very nice video! Thanks for your tips...
hi when I write var targetRoom, targetX, targetY; in the war, this menssage happending variable target Y reference only reference once with a this signal (!) what i do?
That means you've got it spelled differently somehow and aren't referencing it more than one time, which you probably need to be doing.
So double check your spelling on all of it.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether it does not work
So, in trying this I'm able to get the player to swap rooms, however if I set the player Object to persistent, it switches rooms, but doesn't change the X Y Coords, leaving the obj where the tp was in the prior room. However if I turn player persistence off, it tp's them to the correct coordinates, but I cannot see the player for obvious reasons. Any ideas why persistence may be blocking changing my players x and y coords?
Persistence doesn’t affect x and y, it must be something else. It may be that you’re setting x and y when the player enters any room, or something else is moving them back. Put a breakpoint on when the player moves room and go through your code, you’ll find something that moves them. Or perhaps you have another player object already in that new room
@@LetsLearnThisTogether I think I figured it out. I believe my order was messed up. I now have an alarm trigger when the player hits the collider, a var stops the player from being able to move, the screen fades to black, sets the coords, swaps the room, black fades away and then the playermove var resets. Pretty seamlessly I may add! Great tutorial and honestly crazy that you respond to comments. Thank you!
i know its a bit old... but whe ni try to warp to second room, it dont takes tagetx and Y position, im getting teleportete somewhere "outside"
Thanks you! It helps me a lot
Thanks!!! work perfect!!!
Hello, I have done this twice and typed word for word, ive also used other ways to port into the room but EVERYTIME he ports to the same place, can you help? nothing will override the location he gets ported too everything, and i never set anything up. is it a room setting? he is appearing the same place he is in the first room, so its like he is only switching rooms and not porting, thanks
If you export your project and email it to me, or share the link with me, I’ll take a look. aaron@letslearnthistogether.com
MY BRANE ! .....WORTH IT !
Hello! Loved the tutorial and subscribed, looking forward to checking out the rest of your content. However I am having a bit of an issue getting it to work correctly. When my player object hits the warp the room changes but I'm unable to see my player object in the new room. I'm fairly certain it's actually there because if I press up as if to back my player up into the return warp it transitions me back to the previous room. I only have 2 layers (Instances and backgrounds).
+Ikari Well then, that's odd. It sounds as though your player's visible variable gets set to false when you go through the warp, but that seems unlikely.. Why don't you export the project and email it to me Aaron Craig. I always enjoy finding unique bugs.
Thanks! I've sent the email over to beyondusgames@gmail.com. It's probably something really minor and silly that I've missed so I apologise in advance.
+Ikari No worries. I'll get back to you soon.
Just incase anyone else runs into the same issue somehow, the depth of my layers were out of whack so give them a look! Thanks again, Beyond, much appreciated!
I got some problem here, it seem that my player go to another room but I can't see it in the new room however if I walk to the warp I can go back to the first room and I can see my player again. I don't know what happen :((
+BB.P Wongchanglor What can't you see in the new room? Your player? The warp?
My player. seems like it invincible in that room
I can fix it now. It just have some problem with my Tile set. Thx :)
Very helpful! Thank you so much 🎉❤
Hi ! I don't know why but even if i select my oPlayer to persistent he's not here in the nextroom ! Help please !
If you’ve marked persistent, he’s there. But he may be off screen or hidden behind a layer. If you know the debugger, run that and check his depth in both rooms.
If you don’t know the debugger, add a debug_message function in your player and have them write out their depth and then compare to the layers in both rooms. My guess is you have a background layer your player is moving to, hidden behind it
@@LetsLearnThisTogether Yes the object appear ! but even if i choose the X and Y location it always appear in the same place ... then it fall in the void. What to do ?
ive copied this video so many times but for some reason it wont let me spawn on the x and y, anyone know why?
I downloaded your finished project and Sara disappears when the room transitions and I'm not sure how to fix that.
Check out my updated video on room transitions, I try to cover a bunch of the common bugs.
Lots of thanks!
i have tried several tuts and none work, i followed everything but whenever i touch the warp part, it just freezes my game ( it gets stuck in its current position and like completely freezes )
If it freezes, do you have to force close the application (just pressing x doesn’t work)? If so, you’re in an endless loop somehow. This could be by an actual while loop, or by warping your one room and immediately warping back to another, and doing this endlessly.
Try starting by just having a warp in 1 room to another, without anything in that new room.
When I collide with something else while I'm colliding with the teleport, it doesn't move my character properly and keeps its position the same while teleporting to the other room. What do I do?
It sounds like you’ve got some extra code beyond mine interfering with the teleporting. Colliding with another instance shouldn’t mess up warping, so double check your code against mine to see if you can spot a difference.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether I'll mess around with it a bit and see what I can find.
PLEASE HELP.... I did the warp like he said and made sure my player is on persistent. When I go into the next my player doesn't appear. if I try to move back to the warp it puts me back to the original room?????? I don't know what to do?????
Your player is still there. Sounds like in the other room, your instance later is below tiles or something else, so make sure those are in the correct order.
I thought the same thing but it is a new room and it only has background and the instances it starts with (GAMEMAKER STUDIO 2). I sent yoyo games a message and even my project to show them. I even have a TEST project aside from my main project and it does the same thing. I don't know??? Got any other ideas? I thought about doing a instance create inside the instance of the warp. Also, thank you for your time in helping me with this.
Also, the player is in the first layer in my room in the original room (room1 to room2)
Go ahead and upload your project to a cloud service and send me the link here.
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Thank you so much! This is so good video😳 I have a one question.
I can change room this object.
But this one is indicated under the map tips next room. How do this problem resolve？😢
Hey,
Not totally sure what you’re asking. Are your characters disappearing when you change rooms?
If so, check the depth on your instances later between rooms, as if they’re different, then problems can happen.
Beyond Us Games Thank you so much reply😢 English is difficult🤪
Thanks to you I could resolve this problem😢
Probably none will reply.
There is a method to set the targetX and targetY to a precise instance? I mean, the problemi with the solution of the video is that if I wanted to move the portal I have to change the position of the respawn everytime. Can I link two portal in which doesn't matter where I put theme they are always linked? Or is it impossible
Do you mean 2 portals in the same room? In that case, you could, yes. A little bit of work, but you could use instance_find to find the other portal, and then set the ID to that.
If it’s another room, that’s much more difficult. You can, but you’ll need to go into that room, save it’s ID in a file, and then read that file and get the info and put it in the other warp. Not super easy, but possible.
Hmm. I did everything right and the collision won't work. For example, when I run into the warp, nothing happens. Doesn't even have collision. Solutions?
Check out my newest collision video with a similar name. It covers issues like this more thoroughly. The problem is probably from both of your objects being marked as solid. Uncheck that and try it.
Which video is it?
GameMaker Studio 2.3 - Creating & Changing Rooms, my last upload.
super easy to follow. thank you!
i made 2 gates - one gate from level0 to level1, one gate from level0 to level2 but the level0 to level2 gate didnt work, it juz pause the game and the coding looks the same, only the destination n room target are different right? wut did i missed here?
That’s odd. If it pauses the game then you may be stuck in a loop from moving from one room to the next, because you set the coordinates on the gates. Make sure you’re spawning not on a gate.
Beyond Us Games it seems that its not a pause but a crash. Idk wut happened here but i delete the room n duplicate level1 to be level2 as the gate level0 to level1 worked. But ididnt think about theres possibilities of having that loop. Ill try see to that if im makin the next level. I hope thats the case.
you are the man. thank you
Sweet I wish I had known this method earlier
it changes the room but doesn't take over the new coordinates, already thought of using global variables... some help?
btw great tutorial keep it up :D
Check out my updated tutorial of changing rooms. It addresses some of the common problems like you’re encountering.
How can i make the music from room 1 stop and then room 2 music begins to play?
Music is different because once it starts it will continue running without an object. This means you really need a persistent object to keep track of your music. In the room star event, you can check which room you’re in and stop and start music as needed in there.
Thanks for the video! It really helped! But one thing, when the player transitions rooms, it goes to the coordinates of the previous warp point, just on the new room. I dont get any errors, and I've checked the code a few times now, could you help me out?
Check out my updated version of this video that covers some common issues.
I’m not quite sure what your issue is, it sounds kind of unique.
So you’re saying you hit a warp block and it moves you but it moves you to the coordinates of a totally different warp block?
Alright, I’ll check out the video, and if I still get the problem I’ll come back and let you know!
@@Willp646 hey did you solve it?
Thank youuuu
I love you
how about using the pos x and pox y of that warp but juz plus some distance like posX -= 50, posY = 0 as the warp position
Yep, that would work.
i have an issue where it just teleports me to like a black and white version of the start of the level
Thanks for this.
I made it so that you have to click this icon instead of touching the warp because my game only has 2 rooms, but for some reason, even if my character is on persistent, when i teleport to the room he doesn't appear, i tried making the warp collision based but the player still doesn't show up, does anyone know what is happening?
First determine if the player is transferring or not by using the debugger. You can use it to see if the object does move to the new room. If not, you may have a bug. If it does move to the new room, then check depth and drawing objects as you’ve probably got your player behind something in your new room.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether I put in the wrong x and y positions i accidently mixed up the x and y, so i was stuck in a wall in the corner and i didn't see the player i fixed it though
AWESOME!!!!!
can you plz make a tutorial to change waves in a survival game? i tried editing code & i gave up (also I just realized this was made 7 years ago)
great tutorial even for new generations like mine :D
I am in game maker studio 2 and when I transition to a room then come back to my original room the non persistanct objects do not load. How do I make the non persistanct objects load again so my room looks the same when I go back into it????
That's a strange issue. Are you deleting those objects before you leave? A persistent room should stay the same when you leave and come back. If you want the room to totally reset each time you enter, make sure the room isn't persistent.
hi, do u have some tutorial to change levels in Drag and drop?
Look for the code block, room go to and then type in the name of your room
Thanks for video bro you save my game lol
Anytime.
Nice tutorial but my character disappears after he walked into the warp. The screen does switch to another room. And how do I make the warp object invisable?
Is your character persistent?
And if you uncheck visible on the warp object it will be hidden in the game.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether Yeah. When I go from room 1 to room 2, it works, but when I go from room 2 to room 1, my character disappears.
Btw, it only works when I put the character object in the second room, my character will teleport to the objects location instead of correct X and Y.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether Could you please still help?
Upload your project somewhere and send me a link to it, I'll take a look.
Hi i have a problem , i did the tutorial , it worked and i thank you for making the video , but i made an menu , at the start and now i freezes evry time i hit new game if in the room i want to start are any teleporters, why did that happend?
The only reason I can think it would freeze is if you’ve got a loop of teleporting between rooms. Such that you start in room a, then immediately get teleported to room b, and then immediately back to a, and so on.
Check where you’re teleporting and make sure that’s not happening.
How to make new landscapes for different levels?
hey, ive never had this issue in the past but now room1 overlaps room0 when i warp. Room0 doesnt disappear, it just stays in the background while my new room is in the corner. How can i fix this?
That’s very strange. So you’re in 2 rooms at once?
@@LetsLearnThisTogether yeah basically? The only way I could fix this was by using a camera/viewpoint, making the screen zoom in so much you only see that room.
Great video! but it warps my character to the same x and y positions as the previous room, not sure why :(
Could be a lot of different reasons. Do you have your character in both rooms? Are you setting their positions immediately or after a delay? And if there’s a delay, is the warp object set to persistent? Is there code in your player to move them when they change rooms?
@@LetsLearnThisTogether just tried a few things, starting to work! Thanks for the response tho
i dont think this code works in the newer versions of GML. i copied everything exaclty and it keeps saying the variables are unset and trying to walking into the warp tile just crashes the game.
the warp works but they arent warped to the right coordinates, also i keep getting "targetY only referenced once" despite it being used as told. thank you!
If you’re only referencing it once, then there must be a typo somewhere. If you are getting them both then you should end up at the right spot.
nice video bruh. but i have some problem. the code seem work but when i try run it. my player enter the other room but i cant see my player. invisible. i dont know where my player go n cant go back to the main room. can u help me?
Is your player marked as persistent? If not they won't be taken to the other room.
If they are persistent, you need to check your room layers, as your player could be on a layer lower than the visible lower, causing your player to act invisible.
It worked but after going to the second room, I can't go back to the first room.
This is a common issue. The most likely problem is that when you try to go back to the first room it warps you onto the warp in the first room, which then takes you right back to the second room. Try moving the warps around and see if that helps.
@@LetsLearnThisTogether Hi i'm also having this issue, even when I delete the warp panel from the second room, I keep getting the error when i move back to where I warped from "ERROR in
action number 1
of Step EventobPlayerOrange
for object ObjWarp:
Variable ObjWarp.targetRoom(100003, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Object_ObjWarp_Collision_ObMotherGoblin (line 3) - room_goto(targetRoom);
############################################################################################
gml_Object_ObjWarp_Collision_ObMotherGoblin (line 3)"
I enjoyed this video so much. Thank you. By the way, when I run mine, a fatal error happens. Could you fix it?
+홍영준 If you post it here, I can give you some help. Also look through the other comments to see if it's the same fatal error, because if so the answer is in there.
How can I send it to you?
+홍영준 Copy and paste the entire error and place it here, in the comments. Then everyone else can also see the solution I post to it.
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Eventobj_player
for object obj_warp:Variable obj_warp.targetRoom(100002, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Object_obj_warp_Collision_9b2920bb_717d_403f_94d2_22d2301fddd7 (line 6) - room_goto(targetRoom);
############################################################################################But if I just delete warp object in the destination room, it works properly. Without any error!!
+홍영준 So when a variable isn't set, it means that you're trying to access it before giving it a value. I've seen this specific problem before. Check the warp block in the destination room and check its creation code. Are the values set in there?
What can happen is you warp to the new room, instantly hit that warp block, and it tries to warp you back to the other room but its variables haven't been set yet.
Hi, when I step into warp it says the line5 in collision with player and warp in line5 - objPlayer.x = targetX is wrong. what am I supposed to do?
Can you post the actual error?
It works I just accidentaly ticked the "flip X" so It didn't worked. My bad but great tutorial indeed
I have a problem with the sound when my character touchs the object
great video as always beyond us games! I was wondering if you could a video of how to fade in and fade out between rooms, thanks!
+Ezra Holladay Thanks. Yeah, that's something I can do.
There are some good tutorials out there on it, in the meantime. It's essentially creating an object the size of the room that's just black, and then changing its alpha value slowly over time to become transparent, if you wanted to try it out on your own.
thanks beyond us games! i'll try to do what you said to!
Thank you, I would like to know if you could make a video where you click on an icon or button and go to the next room or other room, thank you for the video awesome help, thanks for your wisdom.
Certainly could, but all you need for that is to put the same code we have used in this video, and just add it in a mouse clicked event for that icon or object.
Thank you
Straight to the point. Love it.