Hi there,
I am trying to recreate Chapter 1 of Bendy And the Ink Machine as a top-down RPG however when trying to program the little objects you need to get to turn on the machine the objects wont stay where they need to be. they keep moving around whenever the player moves. Just so you know the map itself moves while Henry (the player simply plays an animation of him walking in that direction, that way he stays in the center of the screen whilst also moving kinda how the player moves in pokemon when they are either outside or in a really big area. Please help Without this program I might have to remove the object finding mechanic altogether and I have already created a bunch of sprites for this and I would also have to alter the map layout in order to remove this mechanic completely and that would take to long so PLEASE HELP!!!

You'd be better learning how to do scrolling. The problem with getting all the objects to respond to the movement keys is that they get to the point where they no longer move - so they stay still and other things move. Then when you move in the opposite direction everything moves so the relative positions get messed up.

Look at the wiki pages on Scrolling for more info. Then my project here https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/92682141/ may help.

This is not what I meant…

Really? If the world moves you need to move any objects that move with the world. That's what you seem to be describing.

yes but i want them to specifically stay in place even if they go of screen

I'm confused.

If you want the objects to retain their ‘real world’ position you need to use variables to record that. The x and y position of the object is not enough if the object is trying to move beyond the edge of the screen as any changes you make will be undone by Scratch.

So by ‘stay in place’ do you mean in ‘real world’ terms? Scrolling manages that.

deck26 wrote:

I'm confused.

If you want the objects to retain their ‘real world’ position you need to use variables to record that. The x and y position of the object is not enough if the object is trying to move beyond the edge of the screen as any changes you make will be undone by Scratch.

So by ‘stay in place’ do you mean in ‘real world’ terms? Scrolling manages that.

im necroposting here, but this is not really confusing.
he wants objects to stay in their original location even when the character moves away from them.
say you have a tree in a top-down game world. when you move your character (which is really moving the map and the tree) in a way that pushes the tree out of the screen, the tree follows you along the edge of the screen instead of waiting in it's spot on the map.

he is wondering how to keep this tree in its spot, and to not follow the character as it moves along the edge

I think he means show him the code..

enderjack52 wrote:

I think he means show him the code..

Please dont necropost