Question on expressions vs score

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    I am one of the many new humble bundle people and I have gone through the entirety of the tutorial... I am trying to expand upon the choco tutorial game by adding random item drops, special abilities, etc.

    One of the things I haven't been able to figure out is how to add lives every X number of points.

    I effectively want to do something like the first 100, then at 200 more, then 300 more, etc (assuming 1 point per pop).

    I have my score counter I am just unsure how to read the value from it and test against that value.

    Thanks

    I happen to have made a lot of games in the past that give an extra life every 1000 points. So I will try to explain how to do it.
    I have a global value, called "Score Keeper".
    I check to see if the value of the current Score minus the value of Score Keeper is greater or equal to 1000. If so, then add an extra life and add 1000 to score keeper (make sure score keeper starts at zero whenever you start a new game).

    You can easily do this for 100 instead of 1000. And it doesn't matter if it goes over, or if you get enough points to get two extra lives at once. It will still work.


    edit: Since you're new I just thought I would add, that to do the aforementioned check, I think you probably want "compare two general values".

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    Hey, it's a bit weird, but to read the score you need to right click the icon for Player 1 in the event editor (as a new condition) instead of the Score Object. It should then show "Compare to player's score".

    I guess I am having a problem writing the expression... (and I don't have an option to compare to player's score from that event box actually).

    If I wanted an extra life at a score of 100, 300, 600, 1000, etc... how might I go about finding help on how to do that?

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    Edited once, last by Valdier: adding a screenshot (December 10, 2013 at 12:36 AM).

    Ah, it's not an event to check the players score. It's a condition :) Similar to the ones you have for Collisions. So, make a new condition and then right click on the Player 1 icon and you should see "compare to player's score".

    Then you can check if it's 100 and give the player an extra life! Here's an example image. I've also added a condition to make sure the player only gets one life when their score is 100, just so the event doesn't trigger forever and give them a tonne of lives. This condition can be found under the "Special" Object menu (two computer screens, one with a question mark).

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    This is pretty much exactly what I am looking for... the problem I run into is... I don't know how to enter that condition into the list.

    When I enter a new condition and add:

    score( "Player 1" ) mod(100*(lives(score( "Player 1" )"-2))=0

    I can an error saying the syntax is wrong. (I've done a lot of programming in my life so the concept of what I am trying to do seems basic enough, I'm just not sure how to actually enter the condition)

    Use the Compare Two General Values condition:

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    Make sure you type it in correctly. The syntax you typed above wouldn't be right. Here's how RhysD had it:

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    Also, you don't need the Always condition in that event, as it will be read regardless of it.

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