Interpolate not working correctly...

DrGlickert

I'd like to add my bonus scores after completing a level to the player's total score at the end of the level like TShirtBooth did in his tutorial video about interpolating scores.

I have this code:
Interpolate Attribute: game.Score to (game.Score+game.BonusPoints) Duration .5 seconds. Function: Linear

It appears that when the Interpolation begins it's continuously adding to the game.Score (WAYYY more points than what it should be). After the first level the "game.BonusPoints" is only around 200 (at most). So theoretically I should have approx. 1000 points from the level itself then add in ~200 bonus points for a total of 1,200.

After running the interpolation the value comes out to around 6,552. It appears that the game.Score is constantly being updated throughout the .5 seconds of the interpolation...

Any ideas how to fix this so that the game.Score value interpolates correctly??

tenrdrmer

just try a change attribute, game.score to (game.Score+game.BonusPoints) . if you are just adding a couple values I don't see the benefit of using interpolate

DrGlickert

The benefit is a cool adding effect. Change Attribute works just fine, but it's boring. I was going for cool effects and making it look cooler.

Asymptoteell

I think it's because you're referencing game.score in the interpolate to. You should make another attribute that gets changed to game.score after the interpolate is done each time and have that +200.

Incendio

tenrdrmer said:
just try a change attribute, game.score to (game.Score+game.BonusPoints) . if you are just adding a couple values I don't see the benefit of using interpolate

DrGlickert,

I'm having the same issue that you were having with the whole score interpolation technique that T-Booth provided. I also share your view on how cool the effect looks, so I'm wondering how you may have resolved this issue? Did you have success implementing Asymptoteell's suggestion?

perfectanswer

Same issue here. The solution from Asymptoteell make it mch better (for me) but is not the solution at all. In my case I am counting the points (5 points for each hit) and have a score from 193 e.g..

Use it with a new attrib. like this:

Change Attribute:
game.scoretemp To game.score +5

Interpolate:
game.score TO game scoreTemp Duration 0.1 Function Linear

That works in most cases, but if I shoot 2 enemies with one shot, only 5 points added to the score. If you use a longer duration, the score runs away or serve you pretty wrong results.

I think we need a better solution for this and btw. I love the rolling scores, too!

calvin9403

this thread is 4 months old, please make a new one

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