Health bar reaches 0 but no death animation?

[Irondan75]

I have a working health bar that has a maxhp of 100, and my enemy bullets do -10 damage and my health packs +10.
Everything is working great but I'm not sure where or how to script out my player explosion when hp reaches 0.
So as of now the health bar reaches 0 and my player is alive and well, but I would like him to explode and trigger a game over screen.
Do I add collision>script> (not sure how to write it, not good at code) on my player, health bar canvas or enemy bullet?
Very close to the end of my 1st game...have learned a lot but have A LOT to learn

[savvy]

on the player, use draw actor and this code...

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if(hp<1)
{
create the explosion
destroy the player
create the game over screen
}

as simple as that
if your hp is working with an animation with 100 frames or so, then..
if(animpos<1)
or
if(animpos>98)

depending on which way round it goes.

[Irondan75]

Thank you very much Savvy!
+1 to you for your very helpful knowledge

[Irondan75]

I'm so close....but, when I add the change actor and game over animation in the last line of the script you gave me my game over screen only appears in the top corner of the View and game still playing in the background.
I'd like after my player dies to show the game over screen with my end music and buttons to retry or quit.
Any idea to fix?

[skydereign]

The game over appearing in the top right is probably due to you setting its xy values to the views. Wire actors (view, filled region, canvas, and wireframe) have their xy coordinates as the top left, while normal actors have theirs in the center. So create the game over text with the position (view.x+view.width/2, view.y+view.height/2). The other problems have to do with you not actually disabling the level. An easy way to stop the level is to use PauseGameOn(). Also to get the retry and quit buttons, put the create actor function calls in the game over text's create actor event, and create them relative to the text.

[Irondan75]

So I did like you advised Skydereign and it moved my game over screen more into the frame but not fully in. I can still see the Top 1/3 and Right Side 1/3 of
the game behind my Game Over screen. I tried changing the value /2 to /3 or 4 or 5 etc. but no change and I tried

if (hp==0)
MoveTo("Event Actor", -1197.000000, -798.000000, 1.000000, "GameoverFrame", ""); //The xy of the center of my Game Over actor.

But that didnt work either.
Maybe I'm doing the Game Over wrong?
I created an actor with a .PNG animation that is 480 x 320 with my game over grafix and text. I was trying to get it to appear when my player dies and if I got that done
then I would add the retry/quit button actors and script them to do what I need done. I maded the Game menu already with buttons that can load, quit and take me to the game direction screens so I figured the Game Over screen would be the same.

(EDIT)

Ok, so I played around with some x y views and got it perfectly lined up with the script below.

if(hp<1)
{
CreateActor("explosion", "explosion_3", "(none)", "(none)", 0, 0, false);
PlaySound2("data/16c_explode.wav", 1.000000, 1, 0.000000);
DestroyActor("Event Actor");
view.x=-1195;
view.y=-797;
}

Thanks again Skydereign and +1 to you for your help!

[savvy]

instead of moving the view to where the game-over is, try making the game over move to the view using:

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gameover.x=view.x+view.width/2;
gameover.y=view.y+view.height/2;


that should work, you could even move the game over screen into the view and set it so the view is its parent, then when game over happens the tarnsparency (transp) becomes 0, but when your playing transp=1.