score countdown after damage

Zombiebrains

Hi guys

I am asking if anyone knows how to show a score being depleted by an amount which has been determined by an attribute.

Scenario

I have actors in my scene that come on screen. Some of these hold an 'Infection'. If the player touches one of these, then I want my score attribute to be depleted by a random number (Say between 1000 - 50,000).

I know how to just take this off the score normally but I would like to see a sort of damage effect to my onscreen score. I would like the score text to turn from white to red and countdown really fast the random damage number (Determined by Gamesalad selecting a number between 1000 and 50,000).

Is it possible to show the score counting down backwards or will I just have to take off the damage score in one go

Anyone got any clues on this?

Many thanks in advance

Zombiebrains

Clouds

You could use 'interpolate' (click on the number to see)

http://www.mediafire.com/?i7vwz0g1fyd5vq5

Zombiebrains

Thanks again Tynan
That's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.

Clouds

@Zombiebrains

My maths is wrong, but the basic idea of using 'interpolate' should work fine.