Multiple If....

[Diana Kennedy]

I would like to do the following thing: According to the final score, I would like to make the game creating a "medal" actor at the end of the game. I a silver for a score less than 200 (tin) one for greater than 200 but less than 500 (silver) greater than 500 but less than 1000 (gold) and so on.

I have that bit of code from another project:

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if (score.textNumber>=130)
CreateActor("tin", "tinmedall", "no parent", "no path", 0, 14, true);

else if (score.textNumber<130)
CreateActor("g", "gameover", "no parent", "no path", 2, -6, true);



But it would probably be need to be adjusted. Which would be the right code for these multiple options?

[Game A Gogo]

it should be

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if (score.textNumber>=130)
{
CreateActor("tin", "tinmedall", "no parent", "no path", 0, 14, true);
}

else if (score.textNumber<130)
{
CreateActor("g", "gameover", "no parent", "no path", 2, -6, true);
}

[Diana Kennedy]

And then so on? I mean for all the other possibilities?

[Game A Gogo]

you could do like

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if(score<200)
{
Tin medal action...
}
else if(score>=200 && score<500)
{
silver...
}
else if(score>=500 && score<1000)
{
gold
}

and so on...

[Diana Kennedy]

Hm, it did not work. Either it says "syantax error" or it works in the way that it changes the score to 500 itself at the end of the game...

[Joat_Mone]

Try a case:break like here http://game-editor.com/forum/tp-2674-lo ... cript.html

[DilloDude]

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if(score<200)
{
Tin medal action...
}
else if(score>=200 && score<500)
{
silver...
}
else if(score>=500 && score<1000)
{
gold
}

You won't need to test the greater than with an else. Rather than check twice, just use

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if(score<200)
{
    Tin medal action...
}
else if(score<500)
{
    silver...
}
else
{
    gold
}

[Game A Gogo]

well, she said and so on, which meen there will be more then gold, maybe like saphire.

[Diana Kennedy]

Yes.

Hm...I still got troubles. Look what it says:

[DilloDude]

Is 'score' a previously declared variable?

[Fuzzy]

double check the upper/lower case spelling of score?

[sonicfire]

Is "score" defined and global?

by the way : you should really use case and break here.

Lets assume score is 800. I assume you want to give the player only ONE medal (e.g. either silver,gold or platin).

So with your if code, the player would get two medals then, since its bigger than 200 AND bigger than 500...

hope that makes sense

[DilloDude]

Using a switch would not work, because you want to check a range. You'd have to have a case for every single possibility, which could be up to 1000 cases, depending on the maximum score. Because you are checking with 'less than' and 'else' you avoid getting more than one thing happening.

[Fuzzy]

with a switch() you could put the number in a temp var, divide by 100 and drop the faction, then you would only need say, 10 cases.

[Game A Gogo]

make it

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if(score<200)

not

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if{score<200}

if thats not it, then i must be blind, (its hard to see because of the BG of the window)