Floor/Ceiling

GingerBGames

Hello GS'ers,

I have a Mana Bar, and every time I use my powers, the Mana is decreased by X amount. I don't know how to put a floor limit on my Mana rule, such as when when it hits Zero, it doesn't fall below 0%. Also, when Mana isn't being used it recharges, so I need to to not go above 100%. I've tried a constrain, but that only put's it to 100 or 0. How can I accomplish this? Thank you.

simo103

can you have is so when it is >99 it equals 100 and when it is <1 it equals 0?

gazjm

I had a similar issue and solved it by having a rule which said

If > than 100 change to 100

And

If < 0 change to 0.

spliket

i would just add extra rules to the behaviors you're using for changing the manna level in the first place.

so, if you have a timer that's increasing manna all the time, i'd do this:

if manna < 100
timer every 1 second (or whatver)
change attribute manna to manna+1 (or whatever).

so, it's only adding manna if it's less than 100. once it gets to 100, it stops.

do the same sorta thing for whatever is decreasing the manna.

GingerBGames

Thanks guys, Gazjm, that fixed it! Now I can finally move forward with the rest.

RH

Or you could constrain it min(100,max(0,self.mana)

I think that would work. Might be less performance draining as well.

GingerBGames

Thank you.