Making two events mutually exclusive

mshuraih

Hi , i have two types of actors , the first ( actorA) touching it causes loss of one life, the other actor ( actor B when its touched it ends the game, the actors are moving and when they overlap, the touch activate both actions, which is undesired outcome. I tried to connect both actors touch to attribute so if both are true ( A+B ) switch B to false and keep A true. but still did not work , any suggestions?

tatiang

Before we get to a possible solution, why is it a problem if the actor both loses a life and loses the game? Wouldn't the game over condition take precedence over losing a life? Are you sure you want the actor to only lose a life and not lose the game if it collides with actor A and actor B at the same time? Obviously you know your game better than I do, I'm just curious about why that would be important.

Try this in your main actor:

When actor collides with [actor A], change self.touchingA (boolean) to true and change attribute game.life to game.life - 1, Otherwise change self.touchingA to false.

When attribute self.touchingA [do nothing], Otherwise... When actor collides with [actor B], [end the game].

mshuraih

Thank you! will try that. as far your question you are right but its just the different actors connected to different counters in the game. will try ur advice