create an actor...insert the display text behavior...assign the game attribute you wish to display...place the actor in your game. DONE!

Timers in timers will work if used in moderation...but if you have too many running in a complex game with lots of collisions and stuff going on (like in my Bumper Derby) then BAD stuff starts happeni

Make a background attribute booleen called "reloading"

Here is what i have done. I got steps one and two done with no problem. I know how to create a timer attribute to apply to the cannon. However, I am not sure on how to make a delay so that the cannon

When I do a change attribute, I always do this:

uh just one more, for change attribute, in the expression editor, what is the value for TRUE, I don't see anything. Thanks for the help...very cool.

Game attributes:

Heh... and then I took a look at the scene attributes. The scene has zero gravity. For a second, it was like my brain was trying to divide by zero. I couldn't understand how it was possible. How could

The button you're pressing is changing the attribute to "True" when pressed

One useless attribute is still in it :-)

cool, one extra dumb question how to edit the condition of the attribute?

Create an attribute: Move Character (boolean)

So only one game attribute, one timer and one rule (Image)

If I constrain it to an attribute, it will always watch only the actual attribute value... I think. Any advice?

This is convenient because it uses self.alpha as the switching variable. This means I can c/p this to any actor and it will work without having to dick around with repairing attribute links. Now my qu

Also...when building complex and "heavy" actors...avoid timers and constraints like the plague. They are already complex enough without adding that kind of overhead. If you do use

Ah, I see now. I missed the fact that your switch is a game.attribute. That is very, very nice. For my purposes I'm not destroying the actor just fading back and forth, so I'll have to use a different

Create real attribute self.faderate

change Attribute self.onTheGround = True

Create an integer attribute - game.loop for example. set it to 1