Score based on movement upwards

Theodi

Hi everyone, I need some advice on setting up a system for scoring, based on an actors movement upwards, like in papi jump the score goes up as he gets higher. I have tried the following already, but it doesnt work for some reason,

If self.position.x is less than game.heightscore
then
change game.heightscore to self.position.x

I have an actor displaying the game attribute game.heightscore but it stays at 0 and doesn't go up, unless I collect bonus items along the way but thats different.

Any help would be great to resolve this!

BrynjeBamsen

First off you need some sort of event trigger.

If up is pressed
If touch is pressed
If jump is True with a boolean attribute

Theodi

Hey Bamsen, iv tried attaching a event trigger, cant get them to work together though. Could you explain how I would do that?

BrynjeBamsen

Try this

Actor 1
Display text - Game.highscore

Actor2 - Your moving actor
Create rule
IF attribute self.motion.linearY is > then 0

Change attribute game.highscore TO self.motion.linearY*10 (or what ever you want)

Theodi

OK here is what happened,

It displayed the score 3525 and 3200, it kept switching between the 2 as I tapped the actor. The actor is on a scrollable layer which goes up, which the size is 75000 so a long way up.

It is displaying something at least, but not quite working 100% yet, any ideas why?

Theodi

Having some weird things happening on GS, dont think its anything iv done I havent added anything new apart from the above scoring system.

The actor is tapped as he comes flying down, then he just keeps bouncing upwards without me tapping him? Like there is an invisible floor, but there isnt.

BrynjeBamsen

Send the file to and.oestergaard@gmail.com
Ill take a Quick look

BrynjeBamsen

alright.... here we go

Create a boolean called moving

on your moving actor:

Create Rule
IF attribute Game.moving is false

Timer
Every 0 sec
Within the timer rule Change attribute Game.highscore TO self.position.Y

That should do it... hope it helps

Theodi

Perfect mate thanks. BUT, the actor starts quite a bit up out of view, so the score starts at 1000 when it should start at 0. How would i make it start at 0 instead of 1000? I'll try and figure it out.

Do you know why the actor is bouncing upwards on its own without me clicking it now? I haven't changed anything apart from the score you gave me.

Theodi

The scoring works well, but say the player gets the actor quite high and there score is 10000, if the player then misses the actor it falls down, at the moment it isnt saving the players highest score. The acting falls down, the end game score screen comes up but states they got -44 instead of 10,000.

How would I set it up to remember the height they got to?