stick man sword

[praaab]

ok well ive said this before and ill say it again, i got a guy with a sword and i want were if he uses the sword on another enemy then it would hurt the enemy or kill hi, this guy gave me this code to help me but my friend and i didn't understand one bit of it her it is...

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if(collide.animindex==0||collide.animindex==1)
{
//0 being the animindex of the attack animation right, 1 left
hp-=1;
//hp is an actor variable
if(hp<=0)DIE;
}

[foleyjo]

I'll try to explain it

From reading it this is in the enemies collision event and is on a collision with the player

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if(collide.animindex==0||collide.animindex==1)   


= The collide actor in this case is the player/sword
if it is on animation 0 or 1 then we do the event (|| means or)

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hp-=1;

deduct 1 from hp(energy) hp-=1 is the same as hp = hp -1

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if(hp<=0)DIE;

when the hp gets to 0 the actor will perform whatever function DIE is.

[praaab]

yes but when i plug this code in then the enemy dies right when he collides into me not when i use the anime of attacking

[skydereign]

That means that your attack animations are not animations 0 and 1, or the wrong actor is the event actor, and therefore you need to remove the collide.

[praaab]

im so confused right now because i tried it on everything and its still colliding with the player and dying even though im not attacking

[skydereign]

What is your animation order for the player? For instance:
stand_right
stand_left
run_right
run_left
attack_right
attack_left

The order I'm talking about is when you go to look at the actor's animations.

[praaab]

heres his animations:
stick man standing left
stick man standing right
stick man jumping left
stick man jumping right
stick man attacking left 01
stick man attacking right 01

[skydereign]

Yeah, so the attacking animations are when animindex is 4 and 5. That means the code should use (collide.animindex==4 || collide.animindex==5).

[praaab]

oh wait sorry i did it wrong the order is this:
stick man moving right 01
stick man moving left 01
stick man standing right
stick man standing left
stick man jumping left
stick man jumping right
stick man attacking right 01
stick man defend right
stick man defend left
stick man attacking left 01

[skydereign]

Ok, well same principle. The first animation is animindex==0, and it goes up from there. So, you want 6 and 9, instead of 4 and 5.

[praaab]

its still the same thing, when i collide into the enemy he dies even though im just standing. the code is placed in enemy>collide repeat>script editor and this is the code that i put it in:

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if(collide.animindex==6||collide.animindex==9)
{
//6 being the animindex of the attack animation right, 9 left
hp-=1;
//hp is an actor variable
if(hp<=0)DIE;
}

[skydereign]

Are you sure that is the only collision event? As that code will only activate when the colliding actor (the player) has the 6th or the 9th animation. You could put an collide.r=0; inside the if statement to see if it is that event that causes the enemy to die. If it is, the player should change color.

[praaab]

wow yea there was an event that was messing it up, thanks a lot heres a point.

[praaab]

i got one more question, theres an animation of stick man defending and i want were he wont get hit, 50% chance of him getting hurt if he got hit by an enemy, how do i do that.

[skydereign]

I am going to assume you mean 50% chance of getting hit, and 50% chance of blocking.

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if((collide.animpos==7 || collide.animpos==8) && ((int)rand(2)==0))
{
    hit();
}

The if requires collide.animpos to either be 7 or 8 (both are the defending of the player), and the (int)rand(2) returns a 0 or 1. Of course if you set this collision to repeat, then you'll need to add an attack variable (0 when not attacking, and set to 1 at the beginning of the attack) otherwise 50% chance given 30 times a second, will pretty much guarantee a hit.