Help with and expression for extra lives

[mobichan]

My game is score based and extra lives are earned every 50000 points. I have been trying to figure out how to only trigger one extra life every time the player crosses the threshold of 50000 point intervals. Since the player can earn different amounts of points in the game, they may not land on exactly 50000 points.

Can someone offer an expression to detect when a score hits 50000? I was thinking PlayerScore Mod 50000 = 0, but that will only return true if the score lands on 50000 exactly. And I am trying to find one expression that fits all, so I don't want to code different score ranges if possible.

[Popcorn]

I cannot give you an expression, but here is what I would do.

Make a new counter and set its initial value to 1. Name it NumberOfAddedLives.
Then put in this event:

* Score / 50000.0 > NumberOfAddedLives
- NumberOfAddedLives: add 1 to current value
- Add 1 to lives

[JoKa]

Start of Frame
- set NextLiveCounter to (score( "Player 1" )/50000)*50000+50000

Player score >= NextLiveCounter
- add 1 live
- set NextLiveCounter to (score( "Player 1" )/50000)*50000+50000

I suck in maths, so there might be a smarter formula. However, this one works fine.

[mobichan]

Thanks so much Popcorn. It must be getting late as my brain has turned to mush and I can't even come up with something as simple as that.

[mobichan]

Popcorn: did you mean to say set the counter to 1 initially? That would mean the event won't fire until the player score reaches 100000.

[Popcorn]

Popcorn: did you mean to say set the counter to 1 initially? That would mean the event won't fire until the player score reaches 100000.

Yes I did mean that and it works.

Say you have 51000 points.
51000 / 50000.0 = 1.02
1.02 > 1
You gain an extra life

[Zeitgeist1989]

* Score / 50000.0 > NumberOfAddedLives

I am having trouble figuring out how to put the above line into the expression editor or make a condtion out of it.

Please excuse me for my ignorance, but I would sincerely appreciate some help on getting this to work. I'm sure it's quite simple! :grin:

[mobichan]

You need to use a "Compare 2 General Values" expression. It is under the Special icon.