scoring issue...

[Ruffsta]

trying to get the word "Health" in front of the health... so it appears like this: Health: 100

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Draw Health 1;77;6;Health
If Stylus.Newpress
If Sprite Touched 0
Increment Health 20;-
End If
End If


for whatever reason, i can't get a word in front of the numbers...

please help, ty

[AlceX]

Try using your own variable instead of Health.

[Ruffsta]

uh, that IS the variable i want tho...


my game consists of: Health, Level and Points...

Health: 100
Level: 1
Points: 1,000

either way.. i can't get a word to go in front of the numbers....

[Metatarsals]

What code is in your 'Draw Health' action?

Output text 1;0;0;Health:
Draw Variable 1;7,0,Health //Drawn 7 spaces ahead of the beginning of where you output the word "health:" so it will appear after the colon eg; Health:100

[Ruffsta]

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Draw Health 1;77;6;Health
If Stylus.Newpress
If Sprite Touched 0
Increment Health 20;-
End If
End If

[Metatarsals]

You pasted your code over again, that is no help whatsoever, replace your draw health line with the two I posted in my last post, when you see it working, change the position the text is output.

If you draw a variable, you draw its value not its name. To show text, use the 'output text' action, and draw the value you wish to show afterwards. You output text and draw variables using tiles not pixels for distances.
(0-31 horizontally, 0-23 vertically, each tile is an 8x8 square) -- (1,1) in tiles therefore = (8,8) in pixels

[Ruffsta]

sorry, i don't get it - can you use my code as example please?


i am surprised that there isn't a clear scoring/health tutorial... i've looked, but none i seen do what i want exactly

[Metatarsals]

Your code;

Draw Health 1;77;6;Health // DELETE this bit
If Stylus.Newpress
If Sprite Touched 0
Increment Health 20;-
End If
End If

Change to this:

Output Text 1;0;0;Health: // Newly added
Draw Variable 1;7;0;Health //Newly added
If Stylus.Newpress
If Sprite Touched 0
Increment Health 20;-
End If
End If

Output Text draws writing on the screen, in this case "Health:" beacuse thats what I told it to draw in the action
Draw Variable draws a variable, in this case 'Health' which is a pre-defined variable in DSGM

In your code, you told it to draw health at 'what you THOUGHT' was 77 pixels along the screen and 6 pixels down, BUT drawing text and numbers on the DS works by "Tiles" not pixels. So 77 TILES along is way off screen! This is because each tile is an 8x8 pixel square, the DS has a screen size of 256 pixels across (horizontally, X) and 192 down (vertically, Y), which equates to 32x24 tiles.
The tile system has a base number of 0, so the first tile is tile 0, the tenth therefore is 9 and so on. So the tiles range from 0-31 (32 tiles horizontally) by 0-23 (24 tiles verticaly)

[Ruffsta]

1.)nothing happened after i clicked the sprite...
2.) you have the word "Health" at the top and the number 0 like 2 rows below - not side by side like i am looking for:



Health: 100 //is what i am looking for

you have this:

Health:

0

[Metatarsals]

You did something wrong on your own. My code works perfectly. See below;

See!

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And nothing happening on touching the sprite is not my fault. To fix it, remove the increment variable bit, and the If stylus.newpress. The stylus is checked to be touching the sprite with the If sprite touched action... Change to;


Output Text 1;0;0;Health:
Draw Variable 1;7;0;Health
If Sprite Touched 0
Set Variable; Health; Health - 20 //Changed to this from the increment variable action
End If //One End If has been removed

[Ruffsta]

well, i want the sprite to be press not just touched...


35 sprites... each one to be pressed

the reason for this is because i don't want the end user to simply take the stylus and just rub the sprites - that would be like a scratch ticket type of thing - where as i want the user to actually tap each sprite.

[Metatarsals]

Search "If Stylus Released Over Sprite" action. Makes sure the whole tap begins and ends on the sprite for the following code to be processed.