What's going on with the special stage ring?

[ImmaStikboi]

So I play my game, go through the ring, quit the game, then go in the ring again and then instead of sending the player to the next stage, the player simply drops from where the ring was after the whiteout. Is there something I can do to fix this?

[DimensionWarped]

Is this against vanilla or is this against a build that you've been working on? I'm not familiar with this bug. Can't imagine why you'd expect the player to be sent to the next stage after getting back from the ring otherwise.

If that's the case, no idea, it's your own unique creation.

[DimensionWarped]

I spent some time going back to 4.2 and I made an end of level special stage ring object and whatnot, but there are enough little quirks here that I'm really just going to suggest that people are probably going to need to put some work in to making their own level control system to solve this. Right now the 'special stage results' screen is really just a placeholder that was built around in-level special stages, so it isn't super clean to adapt that to an end of level special stage.

The basic gist of what you'll want to do is simple enough...

In Global.gd

nextZone = load("res://Scene/Zones/BaseZone.tscn")
+nextSpeciaStage = load("res://Scene/SpecialStages/SpecialStage1.tscn")
+endLevelEnterSpecial = 0

Start tracking special stages separately from the 'next zone'

When the player goes past the goal post they have a few seconds before auto-control takes over, so at that point if the player jumps into the goal ring you'll want to raise that 'endLevelEnterSpecial to 1

In your Hud.gd (which is entirely too tied into level ending logic for my taste right now)

-                       Global.main.change_scene_to_file(Global.nextZone,"FadeOut","FadeOut",1)
+			if Global.specialStageFlag == 0:
+				Global.main.change_scene_to_file(Global.nextZone,"FadeOut","FadeOut",1)
+			else:
+				$RingEnter.play()
+				Global.main.change_scene_to_file(lGlobal.nextSpecialStage,"WhiteOut","WhiteOut",1)

After your special stage you'll want to transition the player to the special stage results screen (you'll probably be making one of your own) and this will use nextStage as its transition target instead of the null

In SpecialStageResult.gd

-Global.main.change_scene_to_file(null,"WhiteOut","",1,true,false)
+Global.main.change_scene_to_file(global.nextZone,"WhiteOut","",1,true,false)

do this in both locations that the pattern appears. You're just getting rid of the null switch and replacing it with your nextZone value from Global.

From what I could tell, there are a lot of annoying little cosmetic things to deal with on the actual ending screen, but you said that wasn't actually your issue, so I'm not going to go into that.

Some of the general level control stuff in 4.2-release is a tad broken right now, so you might end up needing to roll a lot of new code around that if you are going to stick with that version of the engine.

[ImmaStikboi]

I got v4.3 Git Main... sorry for replyin so late i got rlly busy over the last few days...

[ImmaStikboi]

Ok... I have some time now, Ima try this stuff now and see if it works

[ImmaStikboi]

I think I figured out what may be causing the problem, tho I apologise as it may not have been clear before since I didn't feel the need to specify it at the time.
The problem is that my special stage actually has no special stage results screen at all, it js fades out to the next stage after Sonic ends it.
So if there is any code in the special stage results screen that allows Sonic getting sent to the special stage after the game restarts already, I need to get that code to my spin animation script as that is what sends Sonic to the next stage (btw WhiteOut was supper buggy as it'd lead to the animation starting over and over again so I used fade out instead)

extends Area2D
@onready var collision_shape_2d: CollisionShape2D = $CollisionShape2D
@onready var collision_shape_2d_2: CollisionShape2D = $CollisionShape2D2
@onready var collision_shape_2d_4: CollisionShape2D = $CollisionShape2D4
@onready var collision_shape_2d_5: CollisionShape2D = $CollisionShape2D5
@onready var animation_player: AnimationPlayer = $"../../AnimationPlayer"
@onready var wacko_wacko: Node2D = $"../.."
@onready var player: PlayerChar = $"../../Player"


func _on_body_entered(body: Node2D) -> void:
	animation_player.pause()
	animation_player.play('end')
	Global.players[0].allowTranslate = true
	body.movement.x = 0
	body.set_state(PlayerChar.STATES.ANIMATION)
	body.animator.play('roll')
	await get_tree().create_timer(2.5).timeout
	Global.main.change_scene_to_file(Global.nextZone,"FadeOut","FadeOut",0.5)

The problem is figuring out where that code is, if that is even there.
I will also specify again that I'm using V4.3 Git Main.

[DimensionWarped]

Well I can't try to debug a project that doesn't actually resemble what we're using on here if I don't have access to it, so sorry, but I'm not going to try to debug your code.

Just make sure whatever code you are running is actually reaching the the change_scene_to_file function. use a print, watch the debugger in case that function is failing. It shouldn't be that complicated.