Why isnt this working?

[ThaKid244]

Hi. I am in the middle of creating a new game but I am having a problem with variable counting.
I have a variable named "P".
I have an actor (Pcounter) that has animations of numbers eg. "one" "two" "three" "four" "zero"
When "P" equals one "one" is displayed, as for two and so on.
I have another actor which is supposed to (upon creation of an actor) make P = 0;
It is not working for some reason because my Pcounter always displays a one.
Can someone help?

[foleyjo]

I think it's your if statement

I think it should be

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if (p==0) etc
if(p==1)etc


Also a switch statement might be better

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switch (P)
{
case 0:   ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "zero", FORWARD); break;
case 1:   ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "one", FORWARD); break;
}


[foleyjo]

Actually the better people on this forum might suggest you also try

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ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", getAnimName(P) , FORWARD);


[ThaKid244]

Thanks foley. Could you explain what the case statement does and why is there a "break;" afterwards?

[skydereign]

That is just how a switch statement works. The variable in the () at the beginning of the switch is the variable you are checking (like in an if statement). The actual cases are the values. So case 0 means if the variable equals 0.

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switch(var)
{
    case 0:
    // execute code here until the next break statement
    break;

    case 3:
    // execute this code here until the next break statement
    break;
}

So as the above code says the break is a way of determining the end of a case statement (kind of like {} in an if statement.

[foleyjo]

skydereign explained it better than I could.

The break statement exits the switch. If you don't have it the next case will also be used so if P = 0

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switch (P) 
case 0: X = 0;
break;
case 1: X = 1;
break;



Will make X = 0

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switch (P)
case 0: X = 0;
case 1: X = 1;


Will make X = 1

I know this because I have made the mistake of not using break before