NEED HELP: making one action happen at a time when mouse click on something

hello all i am doing a project making a game: "save the lunch lady"

Basically everytime i click on the object (a ninja) one tray is suppose to appear at a time. click again another tray appears, until 5 trays total have appeared.

I cant give a condition where one tray will appear when i click on the object once! I've tried everything and nothing is working. Everytime i click on the object (a ninja) either all 5 trays appear one right after the other, or just im just able to get the first tray to appear.

How do i get the tray to appear one at a time, each time I click of the same object!?!?

so annoyed been doing this for days and finished everything else just cant get this last step! and the teacher cant figure it out too! she just tells me to keep trying, but the project will be due soon and i cant find help from anyone

Pls help thanks!

[davidghemer]

Originally Posted by AllaboutGT

hello all i am doing a project making a game: "save the lunch lady"

Basically everytime i click on the object (a ninja) one tray is suppose to appear at a time. click again another tray appears, until 5 trays total have appeared.

I cant give a condition where one tray will appear when i click on the object once! I've tried everything and nothing is working. Everytime i click on the object (a ninja) either all 5 trays appear one right after the other, or just im just able to get the first tray to appear.

How do i get the tray to appear one at a time, each time I click of the same object!?!?

so annoyed been doing this for days and finished everything else just cant get this last step! and the teacher cant figure it out too! she just tells me to keep trying, but the project will be due soon and i cant find help from anyone

Pls help thanks!

what you need is a counter variable to keep track of how many times you've clicked on the ninja. Then in your checkIfNinja function you need to add some extra checks. Something like

if counter == 1 then
set opacity of first tray to 100%

if counter == 2 then
set opacity of second tray to 100%

etc

Also you could simplify the event to use

When mouse is clicked on Ninja (instead of anything)

This will in turn simplify your checkIfNinja function (since you will no longer need to check, you just need to increment the counter and show the next tray)

Originally Posted by davidghemer

what you need is a counter variable to keep track of how many times you've clicked on the ninja. Then in your checkIfNinja function you need to add some extra checks. Something like

if counter == 1 then
set opacity of first tray to 100%

if counter == 2 then
set opacity of second tray to 100%

etc

Also you could simplify the event to use

When mouse is clicked on Ninja (instead of anything)

This will in turn simplify your checkIfNinja function (since you will no longer need to check, you just need to increment the counter and show the next tray)

Thanks a lot cool! I'll try to figure it out but i really don't know what a counter variable is...

and originally i had it set to "When mouse is clicked on "Ninja" (instead of anything)

But when i asked the teacher for help she said: i had it wrong and it should be set on "anything"

I said i don't understand and she attempted for a minute to help me more, but i don't think she knew what she was doing too... and then she just said keep trying.

[TauTrumpsPi]

Here, this is a fixed version. You just needed to use an if/else to check if the previous tray is already opaque

Originally Posted by TauTrumpsPi

Here, this is a fixed version. You just needed to use an if/else to check if the previous tray is already opaque

Wow you are a genius!!! Thank you so much! u don't understand how much time i kept spending trying to figure this out! and everyone i asked did not know at all too!


thank you so much!!!!
at least now i understand what to do too!

[TauTrumpsPi]

No problem. There are multiple ways to do it, I just picked the easiest