Reseting Attributes

ars914

Hi everyone! I am having another problem. Again this probbally gets asked a lot because it probbally isn't too difficult! But my problem is that my attributes won't reset when you die. So I think the problem is I have a save attribute put in and that's telling everything to save and then there is the change attribute and it just won't change. Is there something I have to do?

Thanks,
ars914

SlickZero

you have to save the change as well, otherwise it will just use the last save it was told.

ars914

@SlickZero How do I do that?

SlickZero

After you die, and the attribute changes again, use a save attribute after the attribute change.

Have you seen this Cookbook video?

ars914

Thats not working for some reason...

ars914

Any help?

3xL

use save attribute to save it to a key. MAKE SURE you spell the key correctly when using the load attribute to load it.

ars914

I have the save attribute already used though. I have it so when you exit the game the it saves everything that was going on. But it is still saving them when you die. What should I be doing, what am I doing wrong?

ars914

I already have that but I have a save attribute so it saves the other attributes for when you quit, no when you die. What am I doing wrong?

ars914

Does anybody know how to do this? I'm sure most of you guys do! I really need this answer fast because I need to publish my game and this is the last problem! PLEASE HELP!

ars914

Anyone?

beefy_clyro

Well for a start only save what you need to save, i.e. best score

When you die, what ever you use to trigger your death screen, have a rule that when die = true, change attribute (whatever attributes have been changed) and the reset the scene.
Then on your main menu, have a load to load any saved attributes that need to be remembered.

Save and loads are only for when you close your app down so you should only save stuff that needs to be remembered next time you start your game.

ars914

@beefy_clyro, Don't I need everything to save when you exit the app in the middle of a level though. Like if your on level 20 and have 3 lives and you exit the app, does it automaticly save the score and everything?

beefy_clyro

No of course not, no game does that, even on consoles! Game data is generally saved at the end of a level.

You'll need a couple of attributes;

WhatLevel
Life

When you compete a level, change the WhatLevel to WhatLevel you have unlocked and save that. Load it on main menu.
Life, when the player dies, reset the scene changing thing like life back to 3.

If you set the attribute for example on lives at 3, if you turn off and come back, it will go to 3 again but the user will need some way of starting up at the last unlocked level. You can control this through saving nd loading the unlocked level.

Watch the video that Slick posted above, also then look at the cookbook videos and watch the video on saving and loading!