Please help! making an actor visible by clicking another

goofyfoot

I am trying to get an actor to go from invisible to be visible when another actor is touched.
I have tried with spawning but is there another way?

supafly129

-Create a game.attribute called "Visible"
-Create a rule in the touched actor "When touch is pressed--> Change game.attribute "Visible" to True.
-Create a rule in the actor that goes from invisible to visible "When game. attribute "Visible" is True --> Change self.Graphics.Visible to True"

goofyfoot

Thanks for getting back to so quickly.
I still can't make it work though.

Here is what I have done.

I create two actors one I want touched to reveal and invisible one.
The one I want revealed I uncheck visible under graphics in its attributes.
I Created a game.attribute called "Visible"
I Created a rule in the touched actor "When touch is pressed--> Change game.attribute "Visible" to True.
I Created a rule in the actor that goes from invisible to visible and selected attribute (the one under actor receives an event) "When game. attribute "Visible" is True --> Used a change attribute and selected self.Graphics.Visible to True"
But no show, I have checked my spelling of visible, can't where I'm going wrong.
Thank you again for your help.

Icebox

@robbiemcintosh@talktalk.net i did exactly what you said and it worked fine, but try making it when visible is true change attribute self.alpha to 1 otherwise self.alpha to 0,
but your method should have worked fine.

goofyfoot

I really can't get this to work.
Here is exactly what I did:
I created two actors.
One to be clicked/pressed and one to appear.
I created a boolean Game attribute called visible, ticking the box.
The actor to be touched I created a rule when touch pressed - change attribute game.visible to True.
And in the actor to be revealed I unchecked visible boolean under Graphics and created a rule and choose when attribute Game.visible is true, I put in Change attribute Self.Graphics.Visible to True.

Before I run the preview the screen shows one actor and the other is invisible, just as it should but when I run the preview both actors are visible.

I have tried the Alpha method, leaving the visible under Graphics alone and making the alpha 0 and making it when visible is true change attribute self.alpha to 1 otherwise self.alpha to 0,

I must be doing something wrong here but simply can't see it.

Thanks for your patience

Icebox

@robbiemcintosh@talktalk.net

The reason why is because your ticking the game attribute that you created , why are you setting it to true by default ? when you create the game attribute dont tick it , let it be false, you only want it to be true if you touch the button actor , so in the button actor once you touch it it will set game.visible to true , then you can say that when game.visible is true change color to 1 otherwise to 0 ,everything you did is correct just remove the tick from the game attribute and it should work fine

goofyfoot

I realised afterwards that having Visible ticked was wrong however un-ticked it still fails to work.
I've tried starting afresh after closing the program but no joy.

Icebox

@robbiemcintosh@talktalk.net I dont see why it wouldnt work, try this sample attached

jamie_c

Here is another sample I did as well, click the white actor to turn the green one on and off...

goofyfoot

I have copied your version exactly and it didn't work, however it was only when I pasted in your rules it worked. How do I attach a zip file to a message then you could see or not see as it were. Thank you so much for this as you may of guessed I am a Newbe to GameSalad.

Socks

@robbiemcintosh@talktalk.net said:
I have copied your version exactly and it didn't work

Two people have responded with suggestions of a solution - how are they able to tell which one you are referring to ?

goofyfoot

I have found the solution!!!
Mine did not work because I typed 'true' without using the Expression editor.
Because the rule from the working version sent to me, 'true' had been entered correctly, when I pasted the rule into my version it worked.
I know now to always use the expression editor when entering true.

Thanks for the help guys I am new to this and have learnt a lot.

Cheers