Hey all, got a question regarding the lives object

[csprinks]

I can't seem to make it work properly. When the character ship gets hit by an enemy ship, you lose a life. but even after all 5 lives are gone the game won't end. I have an "when last lives are destroyed" event going to end the application but it doesn't work.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Chris

[DavidN]

"When last lives are destroyed" doesn't sound right - this event would trigger when the Lives object you're using is actually removed from the frame via a Destroy action. To detect when the last life has been lost, either use the "Number of lives has reached 0" condition, or check for the player's number of lives being equal to 0.

[PamDooley]

"When last lives are destroyed" doesn't sound right - this event would trigger when the Lives object you're using is actually removed from the frame via a Destroy action. To detect when the last life has been lost, either use the "Number of lives has reached 0" condition, or check for the player's number of lives being equal to 0.

I have tried lives = 0 and when all lives are destroyed with either the "restart current frame" or the "restart application" and none of these restart the game. I have tried adding "Set number of lives" back to 3 when lives = 0 and it doesn't work. I am using the demo version (I have the full version at home) at work (teacher) could this be part of the problem?

[KLiK-iT]

The version isn't the issue.

You have to include "run this event once" It would be "Number of lives has reached 0" + Run this event once.....end application or restart frame or whatever you want to do at that point. If you just have "Number of lives has reached 0",..it will continue to loop and it will never be true.

What I normally do is when I want a game over event to happen is have a pause before the game ends. This way you can display a Game over graphic or whatever you like for a few seconds, then the game goes to your start frame.

Like this: make an active object and place it off screen.
"Number of lives has reached 0"
+
"Run this event once" Set active objects alterable A value to 1.

Next line:

Alterable A value of active is great or equal to 1..............add 1 to A value

Next line:

Alterable A value is greater or equal to 100.........Restart application.
+ Run this event once

You can adjust the 100 to give you a longer or shorter pause to restart the application.

Here's an example of how I do it sometimes.

http://www.mediafire.com/?hfa0orkie6thmda

[nivram]

Maybe
Lives <=0

Just in case lives skip 0

Marv

[KLiK-iT]

Marv,.sometimes I ran the game that way and it would work,.but other times it wouldn't because it would loop that event, because it keeps checking it over and over. That's what I experienced anyway and I always had to add in "Run this event once" to fix it. I don't even do that anymore and only did it that way years ago. I don't use the lives object in my games. I make my own.

[Danny]

csprinks are you running the Application or running the 'Frame' as running the frame won't execute a 'End Application' or 'Restart Application' you'll have to run the application to see the desired result.

If all else fails you should just implement lives into a global value and try it with that, Global Value A <= 0: Restart Application

[King_Cool]

If you cant have 0.5 lives, why not try:
Lives < 1

?

[Jeff]

This has got to be pretty easy to fix as the lives object has been around forever.
The most common problems I have seen people have are

Not running the entire application
or
the lives going below 0 because of your events before it gets to the one to check how many lives are done
Its easy to check this -- Throw a counter on the screen and have it display the number of lives

Condition
Always
Actions Set counter to number of lives

Then you can see if the lives is 0 or not when you think it is zero

its pretty common people event things so its negative lives -1, -2 for example.


If you post up an MFA I would bet the reason could be spotted in seconds.

[Jaffob]

You have to include "run this event once" It would be "Number of lives has reached 0" + Run this event once.....end application or restart frame or whatever you want to do at that point. If you just have "Number of lives has reached 0",..it will continue to loop and it will never be true.

Actually, "Run this event once" only ensures that it will happen once that frame. But if you are restarting the application or changing the frame like csprinks is doing, that shouldn't matter because you'd be leaving the frame anyway as soon as it was true. Also, if something continues to loop, it will always be true, not never be true.