Problems with actors becoming unresponsive after changing scene.

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• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  October 2012

  Hmm, not sure why that would be happening. If you change scene, the scene should restart and any actors should follow their normal rules. Feel free to send me a PM with a link to your project file (zipped) and I can take a look at it.
  
  Here's an example of the expected behavior:
• famekrafts Member, BASIC Posts: 834

  October 2012

  depends what kind of behavior you used for the button.
  
  Are they switching on or off any attributes when you press play or pause.
  
  I would say show us the behavior and the problem screenshot.
• DannyMB Member Posts: 4

  October 2012 edited October 2012

  Thanks for the comments guys. Thanks for the example file tatiang, i'll take a look now and check I haven't missed something obvious.
  
  Heres a link to a screenshot of the "Quit to Menu" button from the Pause Scene. I should say that i'm not using the "Pause Game" behaviours to access or leave the Pause Menu scene, just the Change Scene behaviours.
  
  http://i.imgur.com/wJCSG.png
  
  Its really simple behaviour so the problem (I think) probably isn't here.
  
  On the Main Menu scene, the "Start" actor has a pretty long rule that checks what scene the player of the game is up to and then goes to that scene. Theres a link to screen of that as well, though I couldn't get all of it in! Its the same if/else statement checks for around 26 scenes.
  
  http://imgur.com/Bu9fL
  
  Not sure if that could effect the actors becoming unresponsive, but the "Start" button is the only actor on the Main Menu scene that does any checks with Game attributes. The rest just change scenes.
• famekrafts Member, BASIC Posts: 834

  October 2012

  Make the timer run to completion.
  
  You probably do not need a timer there.
  
  check by making these 2 changes.
• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  October 2012

  You'll notice I didn't use the Unpause Game behavior, either. A simple Change Scene behavior -- even from a paused game -- shouldn't affect the behavior of actors on another scene. I wish I could offer another suggestion, but with that many rules it's not possible to analyze what's happening from a partial screenshot.
  
  You may need to add some log debugging statements or debug actors (i.e. actors with DisplayText behaviors so you can watch the value of certain attributes in real time) to see where the problem is occurring.
• DannyMB Member Posts: 4

  October 2012

  @wickedsunny Tried both ur suggestions, actors are still unresponsive
  
  @tatiang I have some actors set up monitoring attributes, and they all seem to be doing what they should be doing. Is it possible that the file has become corrupt in some way?
  
  Thanks for all the help guys! I'm going to be away from my computer till tomorrow (its 7:30pm here) so apologies if I don't respond until tomorrow!
• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  October 2012

  Is it possible? Yes. But I like to leave that as the last option and try to get things working. Maybe you can isolate the actors & behaviors that should be triggering the change scene and should be reacting on the start scene and go from there. When someone sends me their file, I usually make a copy and then delete all unnecessary actors until I come across the one that is the problem.
• DannyMB Member Posts: 4

  October 2012 edited October 2012

  Ok, I've had a look at it again and I think i've isolated the problem.
  
  I started removing actors one by one as @tatiang suggested, and found the actor which was causing problems. It was my "Start" button actor, and in particular the behaviour which changed the game attribute "Current Scene" to a different value. I use this attribute to keep track of where in the game the player is up to, and as such is pretty crucial.
  
  So I think I need to rebuild that system. At the moment the "Current Scene" attribute is a text attribute which I change to values like "Sc_1" or "Sc_5" depending on where in the game the player is up to. The attribute is changed whenever the player changes scene from one to another.
  
  Do I need to use a different system? Maybe something like an integer that just counts up or down depending on which scene the player is heading to next?
  
  Thanks again for the advice, really helped me pin down the issues!
  
  EDIT: I fixed the problem! For anyone else experiencing this problem, I rebuilt the system using integer values rather than text values. This was probably a rookie error on my part. The system now works perfectly!
• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  October 2012

  @DannyMB, nice work! Some problems take a lot of patience and fine-tuning, but glad to hear you were able to solve it.
  
  Integers are probably your best bet in this case, but another option -- if you needed actual names -- is to unlock an actor in the scene and use the scene.Name attribute to determine what scene you're on.