Possible bug - menu not appearing when expected
Hi, new AC user here (so please do forgive any glaring ignorance on my part, though I've had a look through the manual and other answers on here and can't find much to help me understand what's happening here).
So I have my player in a "main room" scene. What is meant to happen is: the player clicks on a hotspot (named console1). Then the game switches scene and a menu is supposed to appear at the same time.
The action list is here: https://ibb.co/3yTnfmy.
The asset properties can be viewed here: https://ibb.co/8NRbQBm.
Here is a screenshot of the menu if this helps: https://ibb.co/qpkMTJQ.
The problem I am having is that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I will play the game once and it works and then I won't be able to get it to work again. I occasionally get lucky and sometimes just disabling and re-enabling the "Turn on menu" action gets it to work again, but not every time.
At the bottom here https://ibb.co/ZGW8B55 you can see how the menu is meant to appear (and indeed it occasionally does). Here https://ibb.co/zZQPxTq is what actually shows during gameplay most of the time.
This is a fairly crucial part of the game - you need to be able to answer the question to progress to the next scene so I'm quite frustrated as I can't think what I'm doing wrong.
Any help at all would be deeply appreciated as I'm making this game to a deadline (for a puzzle club of school children).
Please let me know if there's further information/screenshots you need to see.
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Never mind! Problem seemingly solved (hopefully for good)? Changed it so that the change menu state action comes before the scene switch as in picture here
https://ibb.co/LpBwvTn.
Welcome to the community, @shannonblob.
It may be that this is a bug. Your workaround should be enough for it to work, but I'll look into this further on my end - thanks for the details.
Don't know if I was just being silly but have since realised it was because anything that comes after a Scene Switch isn't going to work
No mistake on your part - so long as the ActionList asset is set to survive scene changes, then Actions that follow the scene-switch should run just fine.
I haven't been able to recreate the issue, but have you tested this in the most recent release? If it's still occuring, try inserting an Engine: Wait Action immediately after Scene: Switch with a very low duration. It might be enough to have a value of -1, which AC will equate to a single-frame delay.