day 4
today was totally rough.
My plan for today was to make the menu/directions in a popup when you click on the book, but MAINLY to work on the recipe & results system. I got sidetracked on the book popup. I thought it would be simple and easy, and I would breeze on past it. Joke's on me.
I made the art for it, which omg took so long!!
and THEN. and THEN. I spent THREE HOURS!! solid hours!! fiddling around and trying to figure out why the popup wasn't working! because it kept on skipping the room i wanted-- in a domino effect, i FINALLY realized after those three hours.-- so i changed the functions to different objects (doesn't fix the problem), then changed the functions to the instances' creation codes (doesn't fix it because those are for when the object is CREATED, so it continues the domino)...
and so that struggle lasted the whole day. >:(
I FINALLY figured out that it wasn't working because I made the menu's room-switcher a button that switched from one room to the next desired room, and the PROBLEM WAS that it just kept going in a domino effect, so it wouldn't take me to the correct slide. no matter what i did, the domino effect would still happen.
So. For some reason alarms haven't been working for me, like at all-- even with alarm_set and other things it just... won't activate what's inside. but I think an alarm is the only way to fix this, because it would provide just enough delay where the button wouldn't be activated immediately. so that's what i'm gonna do tomorrow.
here's the stuff I got done today:
-a cursor drawing popup when hovering over the book
-the sprites/rooms for the pages of the book.
BTW!! for that cursor drawing popup, for whatever reason, even with image_index it won't animate!!! so i have to have a stationary image popping up. ugh.
rough day today. I have a better hope for tomorrow >:(