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Pandorolo
Pandorolo

Reputation: 21

How to fade out text after a second in GameMaker

In my game, if the player goes through a door, I would like to have text appear for one second and then fade out.

I'm using GameMaker:Studio 1.4

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1855

Answers (2)

Arjo Nagelhout
Arjo Nagelhout

Reputation: 135

Create an object, for example obj_text, with the following events:

  • Create event:

    alpha = 1;
fade_out = false;
alarm[0] = 60; // Time in frames

  • Alarm 0 event:

    fade_out = true;

  • Step event:

    if (fade_out) {
    alpha -= 0.05;
}

if (alpha <= 0) {
    instance_destroy();
}

  • Draw event:

    draw_set_alpha(alpha);
draw_text(x, y, "You went through a door");
draw_set_alpha(1);

When the player goes through a door, simply use instance_create(x, y, obj_text) to display the text.

Upvotes: 2

SomeCoder
SomeCoder

Reputation: 293

  1. Create a new object for example "obj_text".

  2. Create event:

    count = 0
alpha = 1
delay = 1 // in seconds

  3. Step event:

    if (count == room_speed * delay) {
    alpha -= 0.05
    draw_set_alpha(alpha)
    if (image_alpha <= 0) {
        instance_destroy();
    }
}
else {
    count += 1
}
draw_text(x, y, "You went through a door")
draw_set_alpha(1);

    When the player goes through the door you simply use

    instance_create( x, y, obj_text)

    to display the text.

You can change the value of delay to define how long the text should be shown until it starts to fade out.

Upvotes: 0

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