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Variable Help
I have created a roulette game for an activity. I have two variables that determine if the participant has selected Red or Black as their wager spot. The wager on the Black spot works, the Red does not. When I wager Red and the spin is not red, the variable RedWin is changed to true.
Is there a way to watch as the triggers are executed to see why it is changed to true?
I attached the most recent file.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
If you have set up a reference, you can see when and to what they are changed. Following the logic is the best way to see why.
That's a doozy of a file. :)
I took a real quick peek at it. The first thing I'd do, is make your production more efficient which will get rid of a ton of triggers and also possibly make programming with variables easier
- get rid of the set objects to hidden triggers when timeline starts. Instead, set the initial state of the object to hidden.
- It seems you can make the selection of the objects a lot easier. The object has a selected state and a win state (based on where the dial lands).
Here's a tutorial that walks through some ideas.
Thank you for the ideas Tom. I am cleaning out some of the extra triggers because I changed paths multiple times and added triggers to get the path to work.
I was noodling around with how to build a spinning roulette wheel. Not sure if this is the most efficient, but it a good way to explain and learn variables. :)
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/a06f5c30-6d8f-47a8-a776-37eb7c63863d/review
What you have is pretty impressive work.
There are a couple of things I noticed.
I didn't look at Toms tutorial, but I'm sure it mentions that if you make all the table hotspots into a button set, you can do without the majority of your triggers. Make a button set, and use Normal and Selected state, and only one of them can be active at a time.
I couldn't get the Spin button to work with this trigger:
When I changed Bet to PointsBet, it worked:
I'm sending my troubleshooting changes. Somehow, the system is considering the hidden state of Spin Red to be Normal when the slide starts. Don't know how or why, but I suspect some sort of corruption. Maybe duplicating the Spin Black oval will fix it.
Thank you everyone for your ideas and thoughts. It looks like it was one of the objects that was having an issue. I replaced them and reconnected to the triggers and it is now working.
Have a great rest of the week and keep innovating.
