Hi,

I'm currently trying to redo a game I made a long time ago in Game Maker, using a simple platform engine I made more recently, but I'm having a bit of trouble with creating elevators.

Basically, I want it to check if the player is a certain distance from the elevator, and if the player is within that distance then it will check to see if the action key is being pressed, then, if it is then it will check to see what position it is in via a variable, and if it is in position 1 then it will go down, and 2 it will go up. I know how to do most of that, I am just having trouble with one section - here is my code:

if distance_to_object(obj_player)<10;
{
if keyboard_check_pressed(vk_control)if variable elev_position=1
}
then vspeed = 2
else

I still got to add the variable check, but it keeps telling me that then is an 'Unexpected symbol in expression"

Is there something wrong with my formatting, or the code itself?

Thanks

sv

At the two equals signs it says Assignment operator expected... from just reading your code I think what you wrote will be spot on, but do you know how to fix the error I said above?

Could you post which line the error is pointing to, plus a few lines above it, as something earlier in the code could cause this. And did you delete the semi-colon from the part you quoted?

I copied that bit of yours, to see if it worked. Here it is:

if distance_to_object(obj_player)<10
{
if keyboard_check_pressed(vk_control)
{
if variable elev_position == 1 then vspeed = 2
else if variable elev_position == 2 then vspeed = -2
}
}
The bit in bold is the bit with the error, it says at Line 5, position 28, so just in between the equals signs.

Nevermind dude, I forgot that you didn't have to declare it was a variable in GML, changing "if variable ???" to "if ???" worked! Thanks a lot for your code though bro, it fixed my original error

That's right, I completely forgot about that part. Well, I'm glad it works now. :)