Mario life lost screen question

Hey Clickers,

In Mario 1, when mario jumps in a hole or dies, the next screen is a life tracker. It's a black screen with Mario and a counter next to him that counts down one to indicate how many lives the player has left. It then goes back to the game and if Mario dies again, it counts down once more from the previous number. How do I accomplish this in fusion? I have the game set up and a second frame that's set up with a counter and everything, I just don't know how to keep track of lives between frames. Thanks Clickers!

Use a global value, or an alterable value of a global object.

I believe Fusion also has a build in lives counter as well.

I recommend using a global value for your lives. The Lives object is ok, but I find the Global Value to be more accurate.

Thanks for the responses guys!

Okay, Piscesdreams, I think Global Value is the answer too. I did it before, about a year ago, but for the life of me, I don't remember how I did it. Here is the MFA of what I'm trying to do. I want the lives counter on frame 2 to count down every time the player crashes on frame 1. And when there's no more lives, then game over. Please help. XD.

Its not finished yet, but the object is to hit 10 buildings with packages. Your a delivery van. Avoid obstacles such as trucks, buildings, some skateboarding dude, etc...

Press "V" to shoot package right
Press "C" to shoot package left

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It seems like you're trying to use the counter as the lives, I wouldn't recommend that, since counters are reset when the scene changes.

Instead, create a global value by selecting the EXE in the workspace toolbar (The highlighed one in this image)

http://puu.sh/j7PbZ/6687dcc821.png

Then in the properties menu, click the Values button (The one with the A-Z on it) and add a global value.

http://puu.sh/j7PmG/0325900c1a.png

You can name that value whatever you need to. I believe "Lives" won't work but in the end the name doesn't matter.

Unlike counters, Global values don't reset when the frame is changed so you'll want to use that as your lives counter instead of the counter you're using.



Now the issue is making that global value to display in your loss screen. You can't do that directly, so we'll use the counter you've already made to do that.

In the events editor of your loss screen set an event with an "always" condition

http://puu.sh/j7PSg/c7f959183e.png

In that event, you want to set the counter to be equal to the global value, like so...

http://puu.sh/j7Q5R/a6be5add54.jpg
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http://puu.sh/j7Q8U/a5eb418a3b.png

This will make the counter in the frame always be the same value as the global value you set it to, in this case, the Lives counter.


Now in your first event, you have it set to subtract 1 from the counter. This won't do, since the counter is always set to the global value, and the global value isn't going down.

So, instead, subtract 1 from the global value, like so:

http://puu.sh/j7Qvk/a174fba0a5.png
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http://puu.sh/j7QyO/ddfc26622e.png

You don't need to change the counter at all, it'll change on it's own.

And there you are, a working lives counter.

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Originally Posted by Dengarde

I believe Fusion also has a build in lives counter as well.

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Exactly, I don't know why anyone would use anything different.

I don't understand. (I've only just now started pushing CTF2.5's limits)

Dengarde,

Awesome! That's so simple. Thank you!

StevenA,

I'll check out the Lives Object tonight. I do use a lot of the built in objects but sometimes I want to tackle issues in other ways to learn Clickteam better.

Believe me, the lives object can save you some pain. It's saving me pain right now with 1 of 3 games I'm making.

Honestly It doesn't really matter if you use the Lives or not. But from what I've seen, you have WAY more flexibility using a regular counter than the lives object.

I think the lives object is deprecated, from the days of TGF. It's just another global value, but it can only be controlled from another deprecated object, "The Player Object." It doesn't really have relevance in 2.5. There's really nothing you can do with it that can't be controlled through a global value and it can be confusing to newcomers because they confuse "count number of lives" with "count number of lives objects."

That's great info Ziploc and Dengarde,

My next question was if the Lives Object was global. Also, I agree with it being deprecated. When I first started, I had no idea that the player object was used to control the lives because the lives object is also in the event editor. Dengarde, I followed your example and am kinda ashamed that I didn't figure that out myself. XD. Really, really simple. Thanks!