Made a trigger--what's next?

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So I am inexperienced in game development in general.

There is a game object with code as a component and a trigger collision as a component

I want to make this an event that automatically moves the hero X amount of steps (where X would be a property set in the trigger’s code).

I have the hero detect a collision response with the trigger. Now how would I handle the event?

Specifically, how would I store a value to this event that can vary among instances? (say I want to move hero 5 steps and then 4 steps a different time).

Would the game object with the trigger handle the movement, or would the hero handle it?

And since this is more general than Defold-specific, can you recommend a place that might have the more info on general game development basics?

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You can set your own properties on game objects,
and then set those properties when creating the game object: http://www.defold.com/manuals/script-properties/#_factory_created_objects

And when message passing, you can send data too: http://www.defold.com/manuals/message-passing/#_message_data

I hope this helps a bit :slight_smile:

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