Custom Score Font + Shortened Score

SikkJewFro

Earlier this week I posted a questions asking how to display a shortened number, meaning once the player hits 1 thousand, instead of displaying "1000" to display "1.00 Thousand" This would be helpful so that when the player has a score of 100Million, they dont see "100000000" but instead they see a simple "100.00 Million". The answer that solved my problem was from User: Lovejoy who said:
"These are the 3 rules i used to display the score.

First rule

if attibute game.score < or = to 999

Display text game.score
Second rule

If all apply

if attribute game.score > or = to 1000

If attribute game.score < or = to 999999

Display text (game.score/1000).." thousand"
Third Rule

If attribute game.score > or = to 1000000

Display text (game.score/1000000).. " million" "
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Now, that has worked perfectly, until I was disappointed with the fonts gamesalad gives you. So now I am here to ask if anyone knows how to apply the above answer before (Which did exactly what I needed it to do) with custom fonts? ive looked on youtube and they just show you how to do this with a long number score, no altering of the math or anything, if anyone can help out Id greatly appreciate it!

SikkJewFro

Bump (?) Any ideas?

tatiang

If you're displaying a number such as 28,000 as 28 Thousand, then you already have the number 28 stored in an attribute or expression and can use that for displaying a custom font, can't you? That idea is based on the answer I gave you here.

If you were using 28, you would use floor(28/10) to display the ten's digit and mod(28,10) to display the one's digit.

Lovejoy

@SikkJewFro‌ Its unfortunate about the lack of custom fonts, we all feel your pain.

If you want to add a custom font and have it display like my previous suggestion you posted above then it would have to be done a completely separate way i think. Not too sure about this one. Hopefully someone else can jump in on this to offer some input.

Edit: @tatiang‌ I was just about to tag you.

SikkJewFro

@tatiang ok, so testing this out, if I do;

Display Text
(game.score/1000) it does what I want by showing a whole number and the decimal points
using "floor" before this equation only allows the whole number. The answer you gave me before of course showed you how to display the whole numbr, then the remaining beside it, however Id much prefer having the "x.xxx" display, im still a little fuzzy on how Id set it up to get it to work properly

tatiang

Can you give me an exact example of what you want?

Are you saying you want 23,456 to be displayed as 23.456 Thousands?

SikkJewFro

@tatiang Exactly correct, the answer you previously gave, being "x thousand & xx" seemed longer than the version I was wanting, that being if the players full score is lets say as you said 23,456, then Id like the displayed score to show "23.456 Thousand"
then, as they reach 1,234,567 it would display "1.234 million" with the leaving off of anything past the 3rd decimal point making it easier for players to read their score.

tatiang

For starters, I think you can achieve the decimal point location by using this expression:

game.score/pow(10,floor(log10(game.score)))

SikkJewFro

@tatiang Score is now displaying NaN, not entirely sure

Lovejoy

@tatiang‌ What @SikkJewFro‌ wants is for it to display that way while using a custom font. I think the expression you provided would yield the same result as stated above.

tatiang

@Lovejoy I understand and I'm providing a way to store the full decimal value in an attribute rather than having a bunch of rules to display certain values. The idea would be, for example, that if game.score/pow(10,floor(log10(game.score)))=2.3456, then floor() of that expression would return the first digit (2) which could be used with a custom font, etc.

But I just discovered a problem with my expression... it always returns a number in the format x.xxxxx so 23456 won't return 23.456 but rather 2.3456. Hmm.

Lovejoy

@tatiang said:
Lovejoy I understand and I'm providing a way to store the full decimal value in an attribute rather than having a bunch of rules to display certain values. The idea would be, for example, that if game.score/pow(10,floor(log10(game.score)))=2.3456, then floor() of that expression would return the first digit (2) which could be used with a custom font, etc.

But I just discovered a problem with my expression... it always returns a number in the format x.xxxxx so 23456 won't return 23.456 but rather 2.3456. Hmm.

Ah gotcha, im sick as a dog right now and my brain isn't functioning 100% but ill mess with it a bit a see what i can come up with to help out.

tatiang

No worries. I think I came up with a much simpler way to display a large number as a custom font. Stay tuned...

SikkJewFro

@Tatiang, @lovejoy Will do, thanks for the help guys

tatiang

Well, after working on this for quite a while, I came up with a brand new way of displaying custom font numbers:

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/514367/#Comment_514367

It doesn't really address your issue of wanting decimals representations but it does provide a way to parse out each digit and you could do anything you want once you have that data. Originally, I stored each digit in a separate table row but it was going to be difficult to constrain the values that way so I opted not to use a table... which is actually much simpler.

colander

EDIT: What I posted here didn't work and I am reworking it and will post it again when it is done.

SikkJewFro

@tatiang Looking at the template, maybe im completely derping out, but is it supposed to display the digits here? Mines just showing a blank black screen, nothing happening, I even moved the actors on screen to assure it wasnt just a lag problem. Am I derping out here or is this something you didnt actually intend? O.o

Edit: Tried to even place the digits manually and they just set themselves to "3". no matter how many I add.

tatiang

I can't tell you if you're derping but it might be because I built it in Mac Creator and I see that you're using a PC. The setup is really simple, though:

1. Give each digit actor a unique integer self attribute called something like self.digitPosition. This refers to the order of the digits, so in a number such as 458 the 4 would have a value of 1, the 5 would have a value of 2, and the 8 would have a value of 3. Note: to do this, you double-click on the digit actor in the scene and then change the value of that attribute.
2. Create a text game attribute called something like game.scoreToText. In a separate actor, Constrain Attribute game.scoreToText to game.score.
3. In the digit actor prototype (no need to unlock any of their rules!), do Constrain Attribute self.Image to textSubStr(game.scoreToText,self.digitPosition,self.digitPosition).

SikkJewFro

Sounds simple enough, Ill hop in and see if I can get it working properly

SikkJewFro

@tatiang Well, copying exactly watchya said made the digit show "0" at first, but the second anything gets added to my score, it shows a white box. Argg

colander

Is this the kind of thing you are after? The decimal point is a comma because it is what I had. The "Thousand", "Million", etc are text you can change that to an image. At this point it is not dynamic and won't hide the leading zeros but you can implement that feature if you want it.

SikkJewFro

@colander that appears to be indeed what Im looking for, all that'd be left would be infact hiding the leading zeroes, other than that, it looks to be just what I need