Two questions

Firstly, I'd like to make a status bar at the bottom of the view that follows the screen. It'll have objects that will become visible when a global.variable is set to true.
eg. You collect a letter it shows you which letters you have.

I'm doing it without drawing, just an object with a sprite

Secondly, I'd like to make the player have pink particles come off it when they move.

Joe

Okay, for the first I suggest:

Code:


if global.VAR = true{draw_sprite(SPRITE,0,view_xview+XPOSITION,view_yview+view_hview-SPRITE_WIDTH)}


Repeat that for how ever many sprites you have.
I'll move onto the next question when this one is solved.

but then how do I make the sprite change if a variable is activated

draw_sprite(SPRITE,global.VARIABLE,view_xview+XPOSITION,view_yview+view_hview-SPRITEWIDTH)
If global.VARIABLE is true, it will draw it as a different subimage.

Mah epics diagramz



The grey letters means you haven't gotten it yet and pink means you have

For the letters:

Code:

draw_sprite(LETTERSPRITE,global.HASGOTTHAT,view_xview+XPOSITION,view_yview+YPOSITION)

Change LETTERSPRITE to the sprite of the letter, HASGOTTHAT to the variable that tells you if you've gotten that powerup or not, XPOSITION to the x position on screen, and same for YPOSITION.