GS equiv. of "repeat until x=3"

gyroscope

Hi, I've been scratching my head again (good job I don't have dandruff!). I'm trying to work out the GS equivalent of the Basic command "repeat until x=3".

Say I have a fair chunk of stuff in the Rules of an actor, that I want repeated, 3 times only for instance. Rather than copying all of it twice again, I'm wondering if there's an easier way that I've missed...

I've tried using a Game Attribute, then Change Attribute to Game Attribute + 1, and in Rules, include When this Game Attribute is less than 4, but it still won't loop, of course. I don't know if I'm missing something obvious...

Any thoughts on this appreciated, thanks.

;-)

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jstrahan

Wouldn't work for either so I use one timer inside of another
Timer 1 for 3 sec
Timer 2 every 1sec
Rules

May not be best way but worked

gyroscope

Thanks for that jstrahan; seems good; my only concern is that in the Rules are already timers; I see how this would work, not sure about "balancing" those other timers as well, if you know what I mean. Still, I'll have a bash; thanks again.

:-)

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scitunes

Rule when game.loop < 3

Blah blah blah blah
Blah blah blah blah
Blah blah blah blah
change attribute game.loop to game.loop + 1

gyroscope

Thanks scitunes, but it still only does the blah blah blah blah's (x3 ;-) once. There doesn't seem to be any way of saying in the Rules to go back to the beginning twice more, that I can find...

:-(

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jstrahan

Yea hadn't wrk for me either u could try setting an attribute at the beginning to game time then have a rule to compare difference in att. And game time for 3 cycles that way done without timer

gyroscope

I'll give that a whirl, jstrahan, thanks.

:-)

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scitunes

can you wrap the blahs in a timer?

Or I may look for some end point in the rules. Example: to make something blink I have a rule that says when color alpha = 0 interpolate color alpha to 1. when alpha = 1 interpolate alpha to 0. This causes it to blink. If you also added the loop +1 rule from above in with the when alpha = 1 it should only blink 3 times. And no timers

gyroscope

i'll look at that tomorrow, thank you. It's early in the morning now for me, can't really concentrate; I'll make a test after I've had some shuteye!

goodnight all...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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gyroscope

Hi scitunes, still haven't tried your suggestion, but it sounds a good technique for another actor behaviour I have in mind. Thank you!

For interest, I tried a game attribute again, adding 1 to it every time the Rules were gone though, running only when this particular attribute was less than 4. Anyhow, it's working fine now, I'm pleased to say. I think I put the Change Attribute in the wrong place...

Thanks again to you and jstrahan.

:-)

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jstrahan

glad its wrkn for u