On "if"s

[Matchewawa]

I wonder, is there a way to establish an amount of times that a function happens before the "then" happens in an "if, then". In other words, lets say that you are attacking an enemy. When you attack him, the "if" sees that you attacked him and runs the method for his immediate death, but could you set the function in the if so that if that happens so and so times (let's say three), then the death sequence happens? I've tried many things over the time that I've been using Alice. I did find one way, but it's tedious and inefficient for multiple enemies.

I'm trying to establish hitpoints for enemies so that they don't just die the first time you hit them.

I guess what you can do is create a health bar that can or cant be seen.

[nickster654]

Originally Posted by Matchewawa

I wonder, is there a way to establish an amount of times that a function happens before the "then" happens in an "if, then". In other words, lets say that you are attacking an enemy. When you attack him, the "if" sees that you attacked him and runs the method for his immediate death, but could you set the function in the if so that if that happens so and so times (let's say three), then the death sequence happens? I've tried many things over the time that I've been using Alice. I did find one way, but it's tedious and inefficient for multiple enemies.

I'm trying to establish hitpoints for enemies so that they don't just die the first time you hit them.

you could say if object is clicked on (or shot or whatever) increment number variable by 1

if number variable = 3
Object dies (or whatever)

[Matchewawa]

I'm not sure I get that. Could you elaborate?

[Lordelwood]

what hes saying is give each enemy a variable, then set the number to 3, 5 hoe ever many times you want them to be hit before they die, then in your code that hits them, have an if else statement saying, if zombie [health variable]>0, decrease health value by 1, else zombie dies...
does that help any?

[Matchewawa]

Never mind, I get it. I was just reading it wrong. Working on it now. Thanks.

[Lordelwood]

no problem, good luck

[Matchewawa]

I made the variable for the enemy's damage, set it to increment by one when you hit him, and then I set a seperate if saying that if the variable equals 3, then I set his visibility to false. (And thanks to something in his AI method, he will stop following me and get out of the way of the level) This makes perfect sense to me, but it's just NOT WORKING. I don't know why, but I've arranged it in like 10000 different ways and nothing seems to work. It seems that the "if KnightDamage == 3" is not reading the KnightDamage variable's value.

[Lordelwood]

Originally Posted by Matchewawa

I made the variable for the enemy's damage, set it to increment by one when you hit him, and then I set a seperate if saying that if the variable equals 3, then I set his visibility to false. (And thanks to something in his AI method, he will stop following me and get out of the way of the level) This makes perfect sense to me, but it's just NOT WORKING. I don't know why, but I've arranged it in like 10000 different ways and nothing seems to work. It seems that the "if KnightDamage == 3" is not reading the KnightDamage variable's value.

try the damage is >= 3
that way if the value goes over it will still register
umm, its really hard to say what the problem is without seeing it, if you wouldn't mind could you post it? so we can see where the issue is... i dont know if thats a fair question