how do you make a counter decrease by 1 until it reaches a certain number?

[Nightsky]

One of the games I am making is a surgery fan game of the "trauma center" series made by Atlus (not sure if any one would be familiar with it. The game heavily depends on a counter used as the vitals in each level, and if it hits zero- then game over. It's a little bit hard to explain, so I'll use it in an example:

Counter Properties:
Initial Value: 99
Minimum Value: 0
Maximum Value: 99

In the event editor, if I put "Subtract 20" from counter-with the Initial value still at 99 (if the player messes up or something happened)- it would immediately go to 79. Is their a way I can make it so that the counter will actually SHOW itself decreasing by 1 (at a fast rate) until it gets to that value? I don't want it to just "jump" to the value.

That way- if the player is fast enough- if the counter was going to decrease to zero- the player can get the opportunity to raise the counter/vitals before getting to zero.

Everything else seems to be going okay, luckily

[Nicholas Martin]

I am making you something

[Nicholas Martin]

I hope this is what you were looking for! Good luck

[Nicholas Martin]

In the events... the edit box needs the "only one action when event loops" removed. Or to use the event "when entry zone has been modified + Text is a number" Sorry, I forgot to fix that.

[Nicholas Martin]

I re-read your post and modified it accordingly to what you wanted.

[Nightsky]

Thank you so much! This is what I wanted! I greatly appreciate your help, this'll help a lot with my game and make it run more efficiently

[Nicholas Martin]

You're welcome. Anytime

[casleziro]

Here's an example that is a bit simpler, and only requires 2 counters: a target one, and a display one.

Change 0-2, 2 in the expression if you want a different speed. (0-1, 1 for your initial question). This will work counting up or down and seek any value the target is set at. This same formula can be used on alterable values or even active objects themselves, if you need to move them at a constant speed towards a target. The formula is:

current value + range ( ( target value - current value ) , 0- speed, speed)

adding the difference between the two values (target value - current value) to the current value, but capping that difference using the Range() function

seeking counter.mfa