Constrain value between two points

Fajlajp

I´m stuck with a thing in my game that starts to get really annoying.
Here is a picture of my slider(it´s not a volume slider)

The slider should be like in the game "governor of poker where you slide a little thing to determine how much you want to bet/raise
I´ve constrained it so it doesn´t go to far but I´ve the problem of constraining it to a value. I want the value to be between to values. We can call them moneyMax and moneyMin. But I can´t get it to constrain between does to vaule when I slide determine on how far the slider is to the right.
Hope this not was a bad explanation and I hope that you understand what I mean.
Please help me.

-Timo-

you know how to make it slide with a min and max point?
I don't know your values and how to do this exactly but you have to do something with the self.position.x from the money thing something like constrain game.moneyBet to self.position.x/4? so when position is 200 the bet is 50 and when position is 1000 bet is 250?
but probably you have to do something with the code
hope this makes sense

Fajlajp

I know that it has to do with the self.position.x and moneybbut I just don't know how

-Timo-

don't you know how to get the right values? or don't you know how to put this in a rule or something?

Fajlajp

how to get the right values

-Timo-

well before someone can help you we need more info. what do you want to be minimum bet? what do you want to be maximum bet? what is the money actor his min positionX and max positionX?

Fajlajp

It all depends on how much money you have and what is miniumum to check/call.
That's why I've two to values called moneyMin and moneyMax.

Fajlajp

It's 300 between sliderMin and sliderMax

-Timo-

constrain game.bet to ((money.max-money.min)/300+(money.min/300))*self.position-300
didn't tried so not sure if it will work...

RThurman

Try something like this in the slider actor:
When pressed
-- Constrain Attribute: self.Position.X To: max( game.sliderMin ,min( game.sliderMax , game.Mouse.Position.X ))
-- Constrain Attribute: game.betAmount To:300*( self.Position.X /( game.sliderMax - game.sliderMin ))

RexCarsalot

I know this doesn't HELP with your question, but I wanted to mention: Did you notice the small skull & cross swords image that goes over the wooden board? This is what you will actually be sliding. When you slide that skull, the amount should show up in the board window.

RexCarsalot

Also, I emailed you several new updates as well as my suggestion for the basic game structure, with starting chip and blind raises.

Fajlajp

@rexcarsalot
Yes,I noticed the skull

Fajlajp

Still having problem with this
It seems to be a really hard thing to solve. So I thought I should explain better so more understand.

I´m try to making a bet/raise slide bar like in the game "governor of poker" and it basiclly a slider that has a minimum value and a max value.
I´ve set the bar to slide like this:
-- Constrain Attribute: self.Position.X To: max( game.sliderMin ,min( game.sliderMax , game.Mouse.Position.X )
The sliderMin is 575 and the sliderMax is 875 so it´s 300 between those points. Now I want to constrain a value called BetAmount between those two points and the miniumum value should be moneyMin and moneyMax.
moneyMin and moneyMax could change depending the minimum you have to bet and max is how much money you have.
Do you guys understand what I mean?

Fajlajp

I tag some Gamesalad pros that I´m sure could help me fix this, but all other help is accepted
@socks
@fryingbaconstudios
@rthurman
@gyroscope
@jonmulcahy

jamie_c

Is this what you're looking for?

Fajlajp

@Jamie_c
It´s not always you have 300 and it´s not always you have to bet a minimum of 0. So it´s right but wrong.

jamie_c

What are the min and max bets? I guess I'm thinking you would just use that same concept and adjust the formula as needed for whatever your current min and max bets are.

Manto

Constrain Attribute: BetAmount to moneyMin+(moneyMax-moneyMin)*sliderValue/300

sliderValue changes from 0 to 300. It could be replaced by slider.position.x-sliderMin.

Fajlajp

@manto1
It worked Thanks

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Ah yes I was going reccomend using a variable in the equation as a multiplier. Kind of the same as above.