Making a loop - pulling my hair out

andersduus

Hi I'm trying to make a box in an elevator move up and down.

the box has 5 positions (called boxpos 1,2,3,4,5)

i'm trying to make a loop with a timer, so every 1 second it updates the attribute boxpos = boxpos + 1

each box then check if boxpos = 4 set alpha to 100.

thats working fine.

My problem is - i want my loop to change direction when boxpos = 5 then I want it to set boxpos = boxpos - 1 until boxpos = 0 then i should +1 again.

How do I do that? I have an attribute called boxDirection, but its not working?

Thanks for your help.
Anders

-Timo-

if boxDirection = false
do
every 1 sec change boxpos to boxpos+1
else
every 1 sec change boxpos to boxpos-1

if boxpos = 5
do
change game.boxDirection to true

if boxpos = 1
change game.boxdirection to false

this should work

gyroscope

@andersduus

Hi Anders, hopefully the attached test file will help you.

P.S And welcome to the Forums. :-)

P.P.S typing while @timolapre1998 was replying.

andersduus

@timolapre1998 thanks i'm pretty sure that what's I've been trying to do. Where do you place the code - on the box actor or background?

@gyroscope thanks a lot. A whole lot more nested rules and times than I had - seems like the way forward. I'll let you know if it worked for me :-)

andersduus

one stupid question - how do I copy code from one game salad instance to another?

FallingBoxStudios

one stupid question - how do I copy code from one game salad instance to another?

You can't not from different projects, if its the same project then you can

andersduus

thanks @RockitGames

@gyroscope it's so odd. when I recreate you code in my project the counter does not stop at 5, but continues....

-Timo-

here is how I should do it. (same way as in my other comment)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wv1p6285bd3waqa/int updown.gameproj.zip
this is probably a little bit easier and you can just typ is over?

allc1865

one stupid question - how do I copy code from one game salad instance to another?

You can click on on the rule > command C (mac) or CTRL C (windows) > go into the other game file, click in the empty white space where you put your rules > CTRL V (windows) command V (mac). Or you could click on the rules and ALT (Option) drag it into another window. To select multiple rules, click on the rules and hold down Shift while you select more...