expressions with Scene Specific attributes not working (and disappearing)?
awesome_wells
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I've created an actor to write the scene's camera X and Y to global attributes (so I can refer to them in other actor prototypes).
I can open and unlock the Actor (on a scrollable layer in the scene) and write:
Constrain Attribute game.CameraX to scene.Camera.Origin X
Constrain Attribute game.CameraY to scene.Camera.Origin Y
The global attributes do not update, and if I run a preview and go back to the actor (in the scene) then the expression seems to be there but actually disappears when I click on the expression editor. Also I cannot re-enter the scene specific expression without closing and re-starting GameSalad.
Am I missing something? or is something buggy going on?
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This is a buggy bug.
Quite a bad one. The disappearing act has been a long staple of GameSalad, but the one where you cannot re-enter the data is new — and super annoying.
So many problems all the time!
I've not experienced this bug with 1.25.80. Presumably it's another High Sierra one?
Yep. Seems to be 1.25.84 specific.
Yes, funnily enough, this bug was somehow absent in a couple of the Sierra builds, but is back with a vengeance now.
Thanks guys, though I was going mad.
Problem seen on 1.25.85 running (not High) Sierra. I didn't see the problem previously on 1.25.80.
I only ended up upgrading recently because I had to do a complete re-install of GameSalad to fix a strange bug where 'switched off' behaviours were executing even after being deleted from the actor (in ALL projects old and new).
I managed to work round this most recent (deleted expressions) problem by doing the following:
Re-start GameSalad and open Project
Go to actor in scene and enter expression in to editor
Save project (Do not preview first!)
Re-start GameSalad again
Now load Project and preview, behaviours work properly.
Now, as long as I don't need to edit the scene actor behaviours again, everything works fine.