Constantly Interpolate Colors

nicolasto

Hi guys! First time poster here..

I'm trying to create a progress bar that every 5 seconds interpolates it's 3 colors to a randomly generated color.

The actor has 3 attributes (NewRed,NewBlue,NewGreen). The initial Colors of this actor and it's 3 attributes are (0,0,0) and this is what I have so far:

Rule:
When All of the following conditions:
self.Color.Red==NewRed
self.Color.Blue==NewBlue
self.Color.Green==NewGreen
Then:
Change Atributte NewRed,NewBlue,NewGreen=random(0,1)
Interpolate self.Color.Blue/Red/Green to NewBlue/Red/Green in 5 seconds.

The problem is that the bar actually changes it's color in the first 5 seconds, but afterwards the color remains the same. I'm having some trouble understanding why this happens because after the first 5 seconds, the conditions should be valid (just like they are when the game starts).

Any help would be greatly aprecciated!
Nico

tenrdrmer

Random only outputs an integer so it will always round up to 1 or down to 0.

What you'll want to do it

(random(0,100)/100)

that should give a much better range.

nicolasto

Actually I'd done exactly that already but still doesn't work. Any thougts?

JohnPapiomitis

posted this a while ago, itll help you out

http://cookbook.gamesalad.com/#question=4e29b1e9db04ec4d83000179

just instead of having change attribute: self.change.Color to (self.change.color+1)%3

have change attribute self.change.Color to random(0,2)

nicolasto

I got it, the problem was that this rule executed itself just once. I moved the set of rules into a timer that triggers every 0.1 seconds and did the trick. Thanks anyways!