Negative scoring
BrassMonkeysUK
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I have custom scoring setup fine for a positive score system and am now working on a negative scoring system.
So far I have managed to setup that when the 'Game.Score < 0', I have a minus symbol appear in front of the score actor, using the 'change attribute' for alpha colour from 0 to 1.
Simplest way I could find. Unless there's more of a better solution ?
I have four score actors which displays as 0000 .... I have these actors on display at all times, so when the player get 5 points for a hit it shows 0005, 0030, 0065 etc but if its a miss then -5 points are taken from the score, e.g from zero (0000) the score would now be -0005, -0025, -0060 etc.
The only trouble is that when the game score reaches 0000 and the player has another miss, instead of the score actors displaying -0005 .. it displays -9995 ?
Any ideas as to how to stop it doing this please and show -0005 for example.
I have had a look google / GS site but no joy so far!
I have tried this with the 'display text' and 'display Game.Score' the negative scoring works fine, so it is something I'm missing out when using custom actors/fonts.
Many thanks in advance!
Rob
Comments
Further to the above would an index attribute be better to use rather than an integer but it states it doesn't like negative numbers?
•Index: positive whole numbers, such as 0, 1, 58, 2804. Index attributes can fulfil many of the same roles as Integers, but have the interesting feature of being unable to store a negative number. For instance, an index attribute with a value of 4 that was told to subtract 6 would then have a value of 0, not -2.
•Integer: whole number values, such as 15, 0, 42, and 5801. Integer is one of the more versatile attributes. A few of the many possible uses are storing the game's score, specifying the number of units to spawn, or keeping track of how many reward objects are left in a scene.
Yes, that's how it should work - ignore the minus sign, as that's just something you tacked onto the front, so without the minus sign would you expect a descending number sequence to go like this:
25 - 20 - 15 - 10 - 5 - 0 - 5 - 10 - 15 - 20 - 25 . . . . . etc ?
This obviously looks like it is starting to increase once it hits 0 rather than continuing to decrease. I'm not sure how your score system is set up but maybe you can have the scoring system 'flip' once passed 0, so scoring a hit gives you -5 points and scoring a miss gives you +5 ponts.
Thanks for the quick reply!
I did see the abs() function but not being a mathematic or remotely brainy enough to work out how to introduce this function within the code?
I have the following setup in each number actor:
constrain attribute
self.image to floor((game.score%self.div)/(self.div/10))..".png"
I just added the minus symbol to make it easier to see it was a minus score. From other GS posts I saw, some had used this method.
I can see that the score is just subtracting 5 from what it reads as 10000 each time as the score displays 9995 as soon as the player gets a 'miss' when at zero. I say 10000 as the score changes from 0 to 9995.
Ideally I am aiming for it to start from 0 and subtract 5 each time .. -5, -10, -15 and so forth when a player misses.
So with my setup, the score would look like this, for example, when the player has a constant 'miss' rate from a plus 15 score ..
0015
0010
0005
0000
-0005
-0010
-0015
rather than
0015
0010
0005
0000
That's how the score is displayed, we're not really interested in that at the moment, we are dealing with how the score is accrued.
What you really want is a score that goes like this:
0015
0010
0005
0000
0005
0010
0015
Yes correct ! Is there a way to do that rather than starting at 9995 like it does now please? Or any tips where to start to look?
Cheers!
Let me make you a quick video (I'd make you a demo but you are on a PC) . . .
Ok thankyou !!!
Ur a Legend! I will give that a go in the morning and let you know how I get on! It's nearly 2am now
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@Socks ... works perfect!
following your video and advice the scoring works fine in the negative with custom fonts!
floor((abs(game.score)%self.div)/(self.div/10))..".png"
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