Reset Time Problem

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• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  January 2013

  @TheShatteredBox, when you post a problem you are having, it's almost always necessary to see your actual rules. Without them, we would just be guessing and not very helpful.
• TheShatteredBox Member Posts: 21

  January 2013

  Oh ok! Here they are:
  there are 2 animals, 6 images for each of them(tigers and lions)
  rule for the random spawner:
  every 1 second
  change attribute game.spawner to random(1,12)<------12 images
  
  Tiger button
  when touch is pressed and game.spawner is either 1,2,3,4,5 or 6
  
  change attribute trueT to true<----- trueT is the boolean attribute for the tiger button
  
  when trueT is true
  destroy either tiger1,2,3,4,5 or 6 and add +1 to game.score
  
  same goes for the lion button and images
  
  If there is anything left you may need please tell me.If you find the problem please tell me too!
  
• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  Your timer doesn't have a condition (e.g. when game.trueT=true) so it just keeps firing every second regardless of whether or not the button was pressed.
  
  What currently is happening is that if you press the button 1 second after the random number is generated, it destroys the tiger (although why not just recycle it by moving it to a new position or giving it a new image?) and chooses a new number immediately. But if you press the button 0.9 seconds after the random number is generated, the timer fires again 0.1 seconds later to choose a new number.
  
  Here's the algorithm I would use:
  
  choose random image
  change attribute game.timeStamp (real) to self.Time
  If self.TIme>game.timeStamp+1 [this is the every 1 second timer without a timer behavior] OR game.trueT=true:
  .....choose random image
  .....change attribute game.timeStamp (real) to self.Time
  
  
  
• TheShatteredBox Member Posts: 21

  January 2013

  Thank you! Still didn't get it to work for one simple reason, and that is that I don't understand what you mean in choose random image. Can you please be more specific? Thanks!
• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  January 2013

  Okay, sorry. It's hard to tell how you have things set up because you didn't type your rules verbatim, but just summarized parts of them. I'm guessing then that you are spawning a different actor (with its own image) based on the random number?
  
  A better way to do this is to import images with their names 1.png, 2.png, 3.png, etc. and then do Change Image to game.spawner or whatever your random number attribute is.
  
  If that still doesn't make sense, just substitute "spawn new tiger button" for "choose random image" in my post above.
• TheShatteredBox Member Posts: 21

  January 2013

  Thanks! I do have that way of the 1.png setup. Still didn't understand what the 2nd choose random image meant... And also, in which actor do I type in those statements?
• tatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  Llama/Duck actor
  choose random image initial image for the actor
  change attribute game.timeStamp (real) to self.Time "stamp" the current time
  *The two behaviors above are repeated within the rule below... the reason for their appearance above is because we want them to fire immediately rather than after one second has elapsed
  
  If self.TIme>game.timeStamp+1 [this is the every 1 second timer without a timer behavior] OR game.trueT=true: if one second has elapsed since "stamp" or button was pressed
  .....choose random image change the image for the actor
  .....change attribute game.timeStamp (real) to self.Time "stamp" the current timer
• TheShatteredBox Member Posts: 21

  January 2013

  Ok I'm starting to get it, but two last questions. Do I do this for both the tiger button and the lion button or just on the spawner? Because the spawner spawns the images, and the buttons turn on the trueT and trueL. Also, the choose random image for the trueT and trueL will be, respectively: random(1,6) and random(7,12) right? Sorry for the hassle...