attribute change while touching button doesnt work

nizzar27

Simply put it (a ship is shooting bullets, when it picks up a boost it should shoot faster but it does not)

when i'm touching a button the ship is shooting bullets in each (0.3*bulletrate) seconds
where bulletrate = 1 so it shoots every 0.3 seconds

now when the shooting actor collides with the boost actor
ill change bulletrate to 0.5 so it should shoot (0.3*0.5=0,15) times per second but it does not

its still shooting at the same rate of fire
only when I release the button and touch it again it changes

how to avoid this kind of a behaviour?

Ive tried to re-spawn the button and destroy the old one but that wasn't working, now i'm out of ideas

gyroscope

Hi @nizzar27 Where in your Rules is your Change Attribute behaviour? Also, I presume your bullets are being spawned?

Either way, it'd be best if you gave a bit more info on your programming, so could you post the Rules/behaviours associated with your bullet shooting, and include the rule where you change the bullet rate...then we'll be able to get to grips with your problem.

nizzar27

-Button-

RULE
IF Game.CanShoot is true
DO
Spawn Actor bullet
SET Game.CanShoot to false
END

RULE
IF Game.CanShoot is false
DO
Timer->EVERY (Game.BulletsRate*0.3) Seconds Run to complition - false
SET Game.CanShoot to true
END

-Boost Actor-

RULE
IF Collides with ship
DO
SET Game.BulletRate to 0.5
END


Bulletsrate is set to 1 as default
CanShoot is set to true as default

BulletsRate changes only after releasing button and touching it again

gyroscope

Thanks for posting more info. I'm not sure why you're using a loop there...unless that's the way you're trying, to interrupt the Timer when BulletRate changes... that's your problem as you can't interrupt it that way, I'm thinking...

OK, so try this, to see if it works as you want (assuming a start value of CanShoot as false):

-Button-

RULE
IF touch is pressed
DO
Change Attribute Game.CanShoot to true
END

RULE
IF touch is released
DO
Change Attribute Game.CanShoot to false
END

RULE
IF Game.CanShoot is true
DO
Timer->EVERY (Game.BulletsRate*0.3) Seconds Run to completion
Spawn Actor bullet
END

-Boost Actor-

RULE
IF Collides with ship
DO
SET Game.CanShoot to false
SET Game.BulletRate to 0.5
Timer->After 0.2 Seconds Run to completion --- you might not need this delay
SET Game.CanShoot to true
END

nizzar27

thx you for your post

the button code u sent wasnt good for me

but the boost code
stop shooting, change bulletrate, timer 0.1 start shooting
helped

thank you very much

gyroscope

OK, I got some right then... ;-) You're welcome & pleased it's OK for you now. :-)