End screen Help

Questions
#1

im making a screen at the end appear when the characters health is equal to zero.

local function player_damage(self)
	if self.player_health > 0 then 
		self.player_health = self.player_health - damage
		print(self.player_health)
	elseif self.player_health == 0 then
	load_endscreen(self)
	end
end

and load_endscreen is in my loader script and a global variable

function load_endscreen(self)
	msg.post("go#endscreen", "load")
	msg.post("go#endscreen", "enable")
end

but i keep getting an error saying

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and i have no idea whats causing it

#2

The error tells you that there is no game object with the id ā€œgoā€ at the same level in the scene graph as the script which is sending the message. What does your collection look like?

If the ā€œgoā€ object is at the root then it should be ā€œ/goā€

#3

Also note that the collection wonā€™t be loaded until later, so itā€™s no good to send the ā€œenableā€ event at the same time as the load event.

#4

Example of loading a collection proxy here: Proxy

#5

If itā€™s an option, I can heartily recommend Monarch, a screen manager that deals with all the loading/unloading of screens for you.

#6

what do you mean collection

#7

This is my loader collection

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#8

Ok, and the msg.post("go#endscreen", "load") was sent from where? From the loader.script?

#9

yeah

#10

No I donā€™t think so. Looking at your screenshot it looks like you are sending msg.post("go#endscreen", "load") from main:/hero#heromove.

If it is indeed the heromove.script that sends the message then my recommendation is that you restructure your logic a bit. The heromove.script can send a message to the loader.script (using the full path) and then the loader script takes care of calling ā€œloadā€, ā€œenableā€ etc

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#11

Is that correct?
The error message says itā€™s sent from main:/hero#heromove ?

#12

i have a the code so that when the player dies it does the function

local function player_damage(self)
	if self.player_health > 0 then 
		self.player_health = self.player_health - damage
		print(self.player_health)
	elseif self.player_health == 0 then
		load_endscreen(self)
		enable_endscreen(self)
	end
#13 
local function load_endscreen(self)
	msg.post("go#endscreen", "load")
end

local function enable_endscreen(self)
	msg.post("go#endscreen", "enable")
end
#14

But this will post a message to a game object with id ā€œgoā€ in the same collection as the hero? And it doesnā€™t look like that is the case. Your loader is in another collection so you must specify the collection id as well:

msg.post("foo:/go#loader", "load")

Replace ā€œfooā€ with the id of the loader collection (select the collection root to see the id/name).

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#15

now its saying
Could not send message ā€˜loadā€™ from ā€˜main:/hero#heromoveā€™ to ā€˜go:/go#loaderā€™.
stack traceback:

#16

Is the name of the collection containing the loader really ā€œgoā€?

#17

nevermind i got it to work i dont know if its the most efficent

	elseif self.player_health == 0 then
		msg.post("loader:/go#endscreen", "load")
		msg.post("loader:/go#endscreen", "enable")
	end

When the screen appears do you know how to make everything else to stop like enemy movement and have a moving floor so how would i make that stop moving

#18

i could disable the main collection but i would prefer if it still showed the gameplay

#19

You can set the timestep of your game to 0. This will pause all updates, or rather, the delta time will always be 0.