noobQ - Is "self.Length of Time Minus 1" attribute in Windows free D/L?

auriclux

Hi,

I'm a noob^2 here, new to GS and game creation, and I'm using the free D/L Windows UI.

I want to have my actor rotate back and forth through maybe 60 degrees. And I found an example game online that produces this result using a rule with an attribute that reads, in part, "if (self.Length of Time Minus 1) < (self.time)%2". I can load this example and see that it performs an operation close to what I want to do.

Out of the gate though, in the 'Actor|Attribute|time' selection for the instance of the actor, I do not have the "Length of Time" choice.

Should I have this choice? If so, where do I look?
Can I import the rule block into my project from the sample project? If so , how?

TIA for your help.

tenrdrmer

That's an attribute you have to create I the actor. It needs to be an integer type attribute. And you can name it what ever you want

auriclux

Thanks tenrdrmr, that got me further along. My copy still is not behaving like the example. One difference I see is that in the attributes I create, there is a field that requires a value (default 0). In the example, I do not see this corresponding field.

Can anyone point me to information that covers this?

auriclux

I just discovered accepting the answer or not. I'll do better.

I used Ace's kind offering as a basis for my timerless rotation

http://www.mynameisace.com/TimerlessRotation.gameproj.zip

But I still cannot replicate the rules in my Windows GS. I have attempted all the attributes at this point, and integer several times, but they all leave my actor spinning unchecked. One difference I do see is that in Ace's project the attributes do not have corresponding value fields - while all my attributes do.

Then again, the relevant difference may yet be invisible to me.