Platform Question

[shissachan]

I was wondering if there were neat tricks or some way to make a platform stay between a certain space. Something like a boundary so the platform knows where to collide with it and turn around to go the other direction. Anyone know what I should do for this? 

[infern0man1]

Create an invisible object and have the platform reverse direction when it collides with the object.

[shissachan]

My platforms aren't moving at all actually. Anyone know why that might be the case? I made a new object and made the parent the moving platform, by the way. 

[pieceofcheese87]

you can just put hspeed=___ or vspeed=____ in the instance creation code

[shissachan]

Oi vey. Thanks cheese. I used hs thinking it would work like the spikes but I'm dumb as usual. 

While I'm at it, how do I get the background to scroll on it's own even if the player is staying still? Like a visual kind of scrolling. These are what I currently have the background set to but it's just motionless.

[vlhx]

Oi vey. Thanks cheese. I used hs thinking it would work like the spikes but I'm dumb as usual. 

While I'm at it, how do I get the background to scroll on it's own even if the player is staying still? Like a visual kind of scrolling. These are what I currently have the background set to but it's just motionless.

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you probably have a duplicate background in background 1 which is currently blocking background 0 from showing, it should work fine once you have dealt with that

[shissachan]

Oi vey. Thanks cheese. I used hs thinking it would work like the spikes but I'm dumb as usual. 

While I'm at it, how do I get the background to scroll on it's own even if the player is staying still? Like a visual kind of scrolling. These are what I currently have the background set to but it's just motionless.

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you probably have a duplicate background in background 1 which is currently blocking background 0 from showing, it should work fine once you have dealt with that

I checked back to see if I did that but I actually didn't. I have a background image with a foreground. They appear fully stretched and clean together in game maker but when I test the game they end up looking like this without any motion.

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[vlhx]

I checked back to see if I did that but I actually didn't. I have a background image with a foreground. They appear fully stretched and clean together in game maker but when I test the game they end up looking like this without any motion.

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thats weird. im not experienced enough to say what could be wrong with it  by my logic your background should be scrolling with given values on the first picture, atleast thats how it works for me if i boot up a fresh map and just add those same values in the background tab

you could try it on a new room just to see if you can get it working there, it might help you to figure out whats the actual problem with your current room

[shissachan]

Yeah I got it fixed. I had an object that was making the background follow the player which prevented it from moving. paraPalm