actor destroyed but life counter won't go minus 1....what's not correct?
AlphaCentori
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Hi
Scenario: It's a shoot-em up. My ship get's destroyed when im hit by enemy bullet. When destroyed i want to loose a life but it's not working. Here is what i did so far:
1- I created a "lives" attribute with integer and gave it 3 lives.
2- I added a life counter actor with the "replicate" behavior to 3 lives, dragged it in the play screen.
3- I added a rule in my ship actor saying when actor --> receives or collide --> actor of type --> Enemy Bullet
4- I added "Change Attribute" the chose: game.Lives To game.Lives-1
That's it. At that point when my ship gets hit it destroys but won't loose a life.
Please tell me what i'm missing?
Thanks
Dom
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GameSalad behaviors follow a linear path through your list of rules. If you tell an actor to:
Destroy Actor Change AttributeIt will destroy itself and then since the actor no longer exists, it won't change the attribute. At least in theory. Sometimes, it does actually work but a much better approach is to destroy the actor LAST:
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Still won't work
i thought this Gamesalad program was intuitive....not at all if your new at this.
If your already a mathematician or a programmer then you'll know what to do or else you just have to copy what others do and hope you won't have a bright idea because you won't know how to express it.....
Learning GS is no different from other things they take time. Watch videos and learn and make demo projects. It can take a year to learn this software well. Which is faster than learning line coding. Nothing worth doing id easy.
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It is reasonably intuitive, but you still have to learn how to use it.
Being a mathematician would have no advantage.
You just need to sit down and learn how to use GameSalad, it might take a few weeks but it's worth the investment.
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Ok i will calm down and try to be patient and give it a shot. I'll read and look at the tutorials. Thanks for calming me down guys. ; )
GameSalad is incredibly unreliable about firing rules/behaviours "in order". I find that it will always run all behaviours within the same rule before actually destroying an actor, however.
If you want to ensure that one behaviour is run after the rest within a rule, you can put it in a timer set to "after 0 seconds" and that will usually force GameSalad to run that after anything not within that timer.
And in my opinion it's nothing to do with being a mathematician or programmer. GameSalad, like other systems similar to it, is all about two things:
A background in programming, mathematical or philosophical logic or in electronics will definitely help though, as you'll be more used to thinking in the right kind of way.
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Can you post a copy of yours project or a screenshot of your rule. Perhaps seeing the order and how you have done it will make something obvious to the 3rd person. Sometimes troubleshooting your own code or proof reading your own book can be difficult.
add a delay to see if that helps..
Change Attribute
| Timer - after 0.1 sec
| Destroy Actor
Finally found how with the help of this video:
The thing that confused me is that other video which i think is an old video about an older version of Gamesalad that's why is method works no more:
This video is obsolete.