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[flxp]

i understand that game maker has its own collision actions when you put ANYTHING in the collision event...
is there a way to disable that?

as in i need the other. variable. and the object, i want to walk through it when its solid...

Edited by flxp, 06 January 2012 - 03:59 AM.

[DudeGuy676]

as in i need the other. variable. and the object, i want to walk through it when its solid...

Could you please rephrase this sentence? I find it hard to understand.

[flxp]

as in i need the other. variable. and the object, i want to walk through it when its solid...

Could you please rephrase this sentence? I find it hard to understand.

sorry,
in the collision event the variable other, is the other object you are colliding with.
and i want this other object im colliding with to be solid, but not have game maker's collisioning to come in place.

Edited by flxp, 06 January 2012 - 04:17 AM.

[DudeGuy676]

then just don't add a collision event in that object. If that doesn't help, I'm going to need you to be more specific. Post the code that your using.

[flxp]

the thing is, the collisioning that game maker implies when you put in anything into a collision event, while the other object is solid, interferes anyways...
i just simply want to know if i can bypass that automatic action?

[DudeGuy676]

Which automatic action do you want to bypass?

[flxp]

well Game maker automatically adds collision to a solid object if you put any D&D in the collision code

[torigara]

as in i need the other. variable. and the object, i want to walk through it when its solid...

Then turn it non-solid. The whole point of making an object solid is to keep you from walking through.

That said, if you want an id of instance at a particular place, there is no need to rely on collision events but use one of collision functions: instance_place, instance_position, collision_rectangle and so on.

[flxp]

so how do i find other.'s variables outside of the collision event?

other=place_meeting(x+16,y,Bound)??

[torigara]

place_meeting only returns true or false. Use other function that returns an instance id I have mentioned in earlier post. And you can't assign a value to the in-built constant other. Use your own variable instead.

inst = instance_place(x+16, y, Bound);
// Now use "inst" in place of "other"

[flxp]

this opens up alot more to game maker
thanks

Edited by flxp, 06 January 2012 - 08:00 PM.