Does anybopdy know how....

[Diana Kennedy]

Hi!

I would like to know if there is a quick and dirty way to display the final score value in a new text actor.

My game finishes after 2 minutes by a timer which creates an actor that is a picture, saying "game over". And a text on it "your score:" I would like to create a textactor which displays the value of the score. I tried to move the score actor itself, but it did not work. I am pretty sure it just requires a little script in the newly created textactor to retrieve the value of the score. But, wel you know, me and scripting...Can anybody help me out?

[Game A Gogo]

create a Var: score, put on the score actor(the one in game) put this script on draw actor:

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score=textNumber

and after the "your score:" is shown create an actor:score_2, then on draw actor

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textNumber=score

I hope it will work.

[Diana Kennedy]

create a Var: score,

Aehm...how?

put on the score actor(the one in game) put this script on draw actor:

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score=textNumber

The "draw actor" is the actor that creates the "game over" actor?

I apologize for those probably ultra-stupid questions....

[Game A Gogo]

there not stupid,i was in a hurry...

to create a Var (variable ) there is a place in the script editor you create a var, i tink its where you choose the button Variable.

end for the score tingy, its for the one that you see wille you play.

[Diana Kennedy]

I tried, but it did not work.

Here is what I dod:

On the score actor of the game, in "draw actor, script editor, I added avariable "scory" It asked me a lot about the nature of the variable that I could not answer (integer, string, ???) then I I added

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scory=textNumber;

Then I made an actor "sore2" to be created when the final panlel "your score" appears. In this actor In draw actor - script editor I aded

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textNumber=scory;

It gives me an error message "underclared identifier scory"

[Game A Gogo]

did you click the add button when you add your Var??

and all the nature tingy in the window, i dont know that very well, all you need to do is: type in your Var name and then click add!!
its that simple, dont botter about the rest.

[Diana Kennedy]

did you click the add button when you add your Var??

Yes! The variable "scory" even shows in the user vars list. But as I said. It doesn't work.

[Game A Gogo]

oh yeah, I fogot, you must put the string to global i ting...

[Diana Kennedy]

oh yeah, I fogot, you must put the string to global i ting...

?????? What? A little more detailed, please...

[Game A Gogo]

srry, cant go more deep, my GE demo has expired. srry, im sure its not that.

did you put the two event as draw actor??

[Diana Kennedy]

Wouldn't you consider buying GE? You seemn to be comfortable with this software

Yes, I putted the 2 events as draw actor!

[Game A Gogo]

I would, if I could.

My parents dont have a credit card and we cannot have one for like 5year or someting untill we can pay a normal price for one.

well, im srry, i cant figuer out the problem for now, i would if i had the full version

[twobob]

Quick and dirty way:-
Create your text actor i.e text1 and choose the font and initial display in the text field i.e 0 (the number 0)
In your script, when you want to increase the score:-
Text1.textNumber = text1.textNumber + 10; // the value you want added
The position of where you have placed your text actor will show the score.


Another way to display a score is as follows:-
Create a global variable to hold and update the score throughout the game.
To create this global variable
Click on the ‘script’ menu bar at the top of Game Editor
Then click On ‘Global Code’
At the bottom of the screen click on ‘Variables’
Click on the add button
In the popup box type your variable name i.e ‘totalScore’
The next button down it should show integer, if not click it and choose integer.
(Integer is if you want to store whole numbers, real if you want to store numbers
like 3.47384 and string is if you want to store words i.e “My Cat”)
The next button down choose Global – With a global variable you can use this variable in any actors script.
In the next button down leave ‘Array’ to no and leave size blank.
Leave the ‘Save Group’ to blank for now– you can add to this latter in your game if you want to save the scores to a file when you next play the game.
At the bottom choose ‘Add’ then the button ‘close’

Next create a text actor
Add Actor – Type the name for this actor i.e text1
Click on text and choose your font and the initial text you want displayed i.e 0000, then click OK.

Make sure when the game first starts up you initialize the value of the global variable to 0; (totalscore = 0) You can do this in any actor on create actor, but make sure that it is an actor that is only created once throughout the game, otherwise you will be setting the global variable totalscore back to zero again when an actor is created again.

Throughout your game you can now update your global variable in any actors script
i.e totalscore = totalscore + 10;

When the game ends you can assign the value of your global variable to the actor text..
On the draw actor event in the actor displaying your picture put the following code in:-
text1.textNumber = totalscore;
You should now have the score showing where you have placed your text actor in the game.
Good Luck with the script - hope it works.

[Diana Kennedy]

Game a Gogo, I understand. Hope you will be able to own the full version soon. Thank you for the help provided!

twobob,

Well, THAT was really interesting. Exactly what I needed, a step-by-step guide. In fact, I already did the first quick-and-dirty version, it worked, I have a score displayed but could not make the result displayed by another actor. So I will try out your global code thing. Thanks also for explaining this so carefully, I can follow much better this way. I will try out this one and report the result! Thank you so very much for your time!

[Diana Kennedy]

Twobob,

Well, it worked! Akltough I had the problem that the text1 actor displayed 0000 during all the game. So I worked wit both ways; A clssic score actor that counts during game and this text score that will only enter into game when it is finished.