Score number as event activator

[Diana Kennedy]

Okay, now that I used JUST the concerned actors, without any others, it worked. So the problem must be in the additional elements. I guess it is the rider. Indeed, I tried out 2 different kinds of code to make him move forward.

On the rider, draw actor:

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x = x - 5;

then I maked the rider parent of the view, so the view followed the rider. The problem was to bring back the view to the initial position, to where the gameover / swampintro actor is displayed. So I added to the gametime timer the code:

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view. x = -490;
view.y = -400;

And it did not work.

The other thin I tried was to make the ground moving by adding to its draw acor event:

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x = x + 5;

This way, the view remained where it was and only the ground moved, giving the illusion we follow the rider on his course.

It did not work either. There must be a thing I missed to do in either both or one of these solutions. It may be also be realted to the fact, that the rider actor is replaced by the jumping rider actor several times durung game?
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[Just4Fun]

Hi Diana,

I am not too sure whether my attempt at help will actually confuse you all the more, but I will give it a shot.

I wonder, could you move your gameover/intro code into your 'score' actor -->drawActor-->script editor? That is, get the code outside of the 'timer' or 'rider' actor (if that is where you now have it). Then use your timer or a variable, say, 'scoreNum' to track the score within the score actor. Something like:

if (score>=130){
DestroyActor("rider");
CreateActor("swampintro", "introswampy", "no parent", "no path", 0, 14, false);
{
else if (score<130){
DestroyActor("swampintro");
CreateActor("gameover", "icon", "gameover", "no path", -28, -22, false)
}

What I am trying to get at here is destroying the actor that you think is causing the problems prior to creating your 'gameover'. That way, maybe you will eliminate the conflicting coordinates code.

Personally, I prefer using GE's Activation Areas for this kind of thing because all I have to do is create my splash screen and then move the view to it. When you move to an Activation Area, the previous area is automatically destroyed until you move back to it. You can also do this when moving to different levels in a game, but then, I don't like text coding much anyway and Activation Areas keep me free of chasing anymore coding errors than I already have to chase! HTHs

[Diana Kennedy]

Thank you very much Just4fun. This looks very promising. Actually I resolved the problem by just uing a clumsy path
But I will try opit your solution in a separate project to see how it works! Thank you very much!