can't access game.attributes from pause

forklift

I am not able to access game.attributes from a pause screen. Can anyone else confirm this?

Example:
I am changing the size of an actor based on (integer) game.size. Game.size can be either a 1, 2, or 3.

I have a button on the pause screen with the following rules:
(all conditions) if actor touched and game.size = 1, change game.size to 2
(all conditions) if actor touched and game.size = 2, change game.size to 3
(all conditions) if actor touched and game.size = 3, change game.size to 1

This doesn't work. It doesn't actually change the number, even when it's a prototype.

quantumsheep

Try simplifying it.

If actor touched then gamesize = gamesize+1

OR

if touched
Change gamesize to (gamsize+1)%3

Hope that helps,

QS

Rob2

did a quick test, seems to work ok, I displayed the game.size attribute and could see it counting up in the paused scene beneath (bit odd really as that scene should be paused!!)

forklift

quantumsheep said:
Try simplifying it.

Change gamesize to (gamsize+1)%3

Thanks, QS! That did the trick. Never knew about the % function! Had to do a forum search to see what values it produced... 0,1&2 on a %3.

Works like a charm now.

JohnPapiomitis

Modulo is really handy

quantumsheep

forklift said:
Thanks, QS! That did the trick. Never knew about the % function! Had to do a forum search to see what values it produced... 0,1&2 on a %3.

Works like a charm now.

Very glad it worked out for you!

It's a very handy function. You can even change that number at the end to a variable.

For example:

Let''s use two variables:

Weapon type = 0
Weapons unlocked = 0

If you unlock a new weapon, it would change to:

Weapon type = 0 (as you haven't changed the default weapon a character holds)
Weapons unlocked = 1

You could then, in-game, have the following:

Change attribute weapon type to (weapon type+1)%Weapons unlocked

This would then allow you to cycle through available weapons that had been unlocked.

Hope that makes sense,

QS

forklift

Makes me wonder what other things I don't know about that make life easier.

*edit*

Awesome, QS. You rock! (and have earned a lifetime subscription of promo codes from me)