So shortly after I started playing 3.0 after it came out, I dreamt up this killer idea of building a toy box where you are sent on a mission to infiltrate a Star Destroyer to protect a Rebel base. I decided to base it in Hoth (one of my favorite Star Wars locales), and have spent the past couple weeks working on building the toy box.
My idea was to start the player on Hoth in the main hangar of Echo Base. You would go on a few smaller missions into sections of the Echo Base interior, which would be built as INteriors. Doing things inside these INterior portions would move the main story forward in the initial toy box, which would then unlock the part where you actually travel to and infiltrate the Star Destroyer. Things started out great--the base was incredibly fun to build and the INterior portions were turning out very nicely.
Now that I've started adding in the creativitoys and linking things together, however, I am running into SERIOUS issues! I'm hoping somebody can help me figure out if this is bad programming on my part or just the game being a glitchy mess. I have a feeling it might be the INteriors causing problems.
First of all, is there a good way to link toy boxes together using the doors? I've linked them no problem, but when I test it out in the Toy Box Game mode, whenever I travel through a door it reverts to an older save of the INterior for some reason. I could only get it to load the most current save when I started the whole game by travelling to that INterior (as in when I loaded the save). Is this normal? Will I just need to re-link the doors every single time I make any changes in the toy box/INterior they're linked to?
This leads to me to the second issue I've been encountering, which is whenever I travel to an INterior it seems to ruin stuff I've set up in the main toy box. Paths have been disappearing or disconnecting their points. And it keeps resetting my Toy Box Game Maker creativitoy so that instead of turning off the wand/editor and allowing all characters, it limits it to only characters without any abilities and allows the use of the wand/editor!
I'm starting to get extremely frustrated and nearly ready to abandon this idea that I've already poured hours and hours into building. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please help! I'm desperate!!!