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[Knoxer]

Hello There!
Over the holidays I purchased GM 8.1 and the GM companion book to go along with it and so far this book has been amazingly helpful to me, seriously its a darn good book. Alas though I seem to have run into an issue I have no idea how to fix. I'm currently working on the Zool tutorial and have run into an issue in chapter 5 dealing with the Bee enemy. In his step, step event it calls for this.

Include a Step Avoiding action (move tab) that steps toward the point X=targetx,
Y=obj_zool.y, at a Speed of 10 and avoids all instances.

It appears in game maker 8.1 this even no longer exist and after doing some looking around it seems for a good reason. I'm wondering if anyone would know of a script or a different set of actions that would help the bee object avoid other objects while it's following zool. Many thanks to those that are able to help!

[YellowAfterlife]

It's second action in category "Steps" of tab "move". If you can't see it there, place a tick in menu:File - Advanced mode.

[Knoxer]

It's second action in category "Steps" of tab "move". If you can't see it there, place a tick in menu:File - Advanced mode.

Nowhere to be found sadly, even in advanced mode. Even on the resources CD when I load the premade gmk file where the Step Avoiding action should be in the action list it states it as an unknown action.

[YellowAfterlife]

You may want to consider re-installing GameMaker in such case - might have accidentally overwritten a library file with something, or other.
It should be located as the following in a good case:

[GameGeisha]

Versions of GM8.1 prior to 8.1.140 have a few missing D&D icons, one of which is .

Run the updater to install the latest version (8.1.141 as of 26/02/2012), then check if it's there.

GameGeisha

[Knoxer]

You may want to consider re-installing GameMaker in such case - might have accidentally overwritten a library file with something, or other.

That did the trick! Many thanks friend!