Can you combine game attributes?

DigiChain

Hi, by this I mean that I have 2 Game Attributes. One is integer and the text.

So, for example the integer att. reads - 4
and the text att. reads - RIGHT

Is there anyway to combine these values so that I could then tell an actor> When Attribute = 4,RIGHT etc.

This would save me an incredible amount of time and vastly cutdown on the rules I need to use.

giacomopoppi

Well... yes you can.
You create a rule -

RULE
--------
when attribute = 4
AND
when attribute 2 = Right
-------

You can add conditions just by clicking the plus sign on the right side of a rule.

Giacomo

P.S. I hope tht is what you meant

DigiChain

Thanks Giacomo - but that's not really what I'm after - because I'll have to create a new rule for ever combination of attributes.

Whereas if I could combine them before creating the actor rule - I could then just have a rule stating if ANY conditions exist and then input the particular combinations (such as '5,RIGHT') that trigger that rule.

Hope I'm making sense here.

ultima

change XXX to integerXX..textXXX hope u can read that right. the ".." symbol is what you need to combine text attributes..

and you just check to see if the text attribute is exactly the same as...

giacomopoppi

@ChopperKhan yeah, I missunderstood. Try out what @ultima said, I don't know if it will work cause i never tried it.

DigiChain

Sorry ultima - I know I'm being a bit stupid here, but I don't quite understand?

ultima

hope there an easier way to post the scripts...

but i believe you can..

first you set-up a change attribute
xxx to integer..","..text

xxx being your new text attribute
integer being the name of your integer attribute
and text being your text attribute...

add a new rule that checks if

xxx (your new text attribute) = "4,right"

it works in my head but i haven't tried yet.

DigiChain

I'll give a go later and see if I have any luck. cheers!

giacomopoppi

@ultima I doubt that would work... I havn't ever seen anyone combine integers with text variables without using arrays... I might be wrong though... Test it.

Giacomo

ultima

works, i just tested it.

in a sense you can't combine them... because the end result is a text string.. but the idea is that you can check if one text string is the same as the other.

giacomopoppi

Cool, I stand corrected

DigiChain

Still not really working for me-

I'm displaying as text to see what it comes up with and its displaying:

vars['game.attributes.id552420']

???