Number of objects to pick up?

[Roseweave]

Maybe there's something simple that's escaping me, but I need to check for how many objects my character is carrying. I have a sort of telekinetic hand that can lift far too many things. I want to be able to count the number of group.collectible that have flag 1 on, and if it's too great, don't let the player pick up any more.

I've tried adding to a variable everytime a new object is picked up, but that didn't work out well, at all.

[Roseweave]

I can't even tell it to just pick one object up, arggh...

[Werbad]

You can count how many objects are picked by using the select object extension.
To retrieve the amount of object that has flag 1 on:
* Group.1: Flag 1 is on
- Set Global Value A to numSelectedByFixedV( "Select Object Extension", Fixed( "Group.1" ))

[Dynasoft]

The count number of selected doesn't work on qualifiers I'm afraid, you have to add up the number selected of each object type.

[Benicle]

You could just run a loop through them too :\. E.g.

Start of Frame
Spread Value 0 in Alt A of Group.1

(Count Event)
Start Loop "countobjects"

On loop "countobjects" & Alt Value A of Group.1 = loopindex("countobjects") & Group.1 Flag 0 is on
Add to Counter("Objects")

Or something of that nature.

[MrMan]

Or have an alt value, call it holding limit or something, then everytime you pick up an object add 1 to the alt value, when you drop 1 then subtract from alt value.

condition
my codition to pickup items
+ holding limit < 5 (or how many limit you want)

action
---pick up object
+ add 1 to holding limit

[Roseweave]

MrMan, I tried doing that but it was far too buggy. Sometimes it would add twice the value, others not at all. Because I have a "smooth" transition to pick up the object with the hand, it seems to glitch between being on and off. It's very argh.

The spread value sounds like a good solution. Though for now, really, I'll just have it so you can pick up only one object. It makes the most sense really.