Increase Meter

GamingtilDawn

I was watching a video that @tshirtbooth had on YouTube about adding a health bar to a game. I followed that video to actually add a skill meter to my game. In his video, his bar was shown to decrease. I was able to get my to increase instead. Only problem is that the meter goes beyond the area that I need to to stay in. When my actor collects a power up the meter increases. I have seen that once 7 power ups are grab the meter is full. How do I stop the meter from filling if the actor happens to grab more than 7? I'm thinking of some kind of constraint?

jamie_c

If you have an attribute for the power ups, lets call it PowerUp, you would set up a rule like this:

if PowerUp >= 7 then PowerUp = 7

That should keep the power up equal to or less than 7.

GamingtilDawn

@jamie_c A game level attribute?

I made an integer game level attribute and started it at 0. Then in the power ups code had a rule:
actor collides with tag characters

change attribute game.skill to game.skill+13 (makes the meter increase in size)
change attribute game.powerups to game.powerups+1

another rule:
attribute game.powerups >= 7

change attribute game.powerups to 7

that didnt stop it from increasing.

mhedges

@GamingtilDawn , see if gets fixed if you invert the rules.

I believe you may have it like this in your code:

If collide then change attribute to skill+13 and powerups+1
If powerups >= 7 then power ups =7

Switch it around to:

If powerups <7 then
If collide then change attribute to skill+13 and powerups+1

Let us know if that works!

jamie_c

@GamingtilDawn, the attribute name and number I used were for a general idea, not specifically for use with your code. Now that you have said exactly how you are creating your powerup adjust what I said before to be like this:

Use your game.skill attribute you have already created, no need to add the new game.powerups

Add a Rule, probably in your meter actor:

if game.skill >= 91 then game.skill = 91

I used 91 since you are increasing the game skill by 13 each time 13*7 = 91 so after 7 skill increases it should not increase anymore.

GamingtilDawn

Thank you @mhedges and @jamie_c! I got the meter to stop after 7 coins.

jamie_c

sweet!