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meew0 wrote:

Make a sprite with all numbers between the lower and upper bound of the score as costumes.  Like, when the lower bound is 0 and the upper 100, make a sprite with 101 costumes, the first 0, the second 1, the third 2, ..., and the 101st 100.

Then make a script:

<when /> (green flag) clicked>
<forever>
<switch to costume ((score) + 1)>
<end forever>

Did you understand what I mean?

Yea . . .I did understand . .and thanks, but the scores in my game are gonna be counted by the thousands . . .so I need a better way. Thanks anyways 

LordGaGa wrote:

meew0 wrote:

Make a sprite with all numbers between the lower and upper bound of the score as costumes.  Like, when the lower bound is 0 and the upper 100, make a sprite with 101 costumes, the first 0, the second 1, the third 2, ..., and the 101st 100.

Then make a script:

<when /> (green flag) clicked>
<forever>
<switch to costume ((score) + 1)>
<end forever>

Did you understand what I mean?

Yea . . .I did understand . .and thanks, but the scores in my game are gonna be counted by the thousands . . .so I need a better way. Thanks anyways 

That would be REALLY hard. Unfortunely variables or stamping are the best way.

"Incorporated lists"? I made one that sorted scores into high scores via lists...
high score sorter

Otherwise I am lost, sorry. I thought you were originally asking about how to display a score via sprites?

Last edited by Locomule (2010-06-25 10:07:55)

juststickman wrote:

You could have a bunch of sprites, 1 per digit displaying your score. Each sprite has 9 costumes, and there's one representing ones, tens, hundreds etc.


Rail guns die by emp bomb a lot...

This is part of what you want. You want as many sprites as their will be digits in the score (so if scores go to 999,999 then you would need 6 sprites) Each of those sprites needs 10 costumes actually the numbers 0 to 9. Use stacked if/else statements to set the costume and then make the last else hide the costume. That way smaller scores will be displayed zeros or junk for the higher digits.

By arranging the sprites in a row on the screen, each one will be used as a digit in the visible score. A sprite for ones, tens, hundreds, etc. Here is where your list comes in. Write the total score to a list (we'll call that list Score.) Make another variable "Length" and set it to the Length of Score (*note* for "Length of" use the green Numbers block, NOT the red Variables List block.)

Almost done, now set the sprite farthest to the right's costume (the 'ones' sprite) to
letter Length of Score ("letter X of X" being another green Numbers block)

Since the variable "Length" = the number of digits in the score, it defaults to the last score digit or the 'ones."

Now set the 2nd from right sprite (the "10s place) to the same thing except use
letter (Length - 1) of Score

and the next sprite (the 100's place) uses Length - 2, etc for the rest. And there you go, now you have a scoring system that uses only sprites and is list-driven and looks like just a cool score readout to the player.

The biggest drawback I see is the need to know how many digits/sprites you will need for say a really high score but you will know that as you tweak and finish the game. Peace!

Last edited by Locomule (2010-06-27 18:29:42)

LordGaGa wrote:

Locomule wrote:

juststickman wrote:

You could have a bunch of sprites, 1 per digit displaying your score. Each sprite has 9 costumes, and there's one representing ones, tens, hundreds etc.


Rail guns die by emp bomb a lot...

This is part of what you want. You want as many sprites as their will be digits in the score (so if scores go to 999,999 then you would need 6 sprites) Each of those sprites needs 10 costumes actually the numbers 0 to 9. Use stacked if/else statements to set the costume and then make the last else hide the costume. That way smaller scores will be displayed zeros or junk for the higher digits.

By arranging the sprites in a row on the screen, each one will be used as a digit in the visible score. A sprite for ones, tens, hundreds, etc. Here is where your list comes in. Write the total score to a list (we'll call that list Score.) Make another variable "Length" and set it to the Length of Score (*note* for "Length of" use the green Numbers block, NOT the red Variables List block.)

Almost done, now set the sprite farthest to the right's costume (the 'ones' sprite) to
letter Length of Score ("letter X of X" being another green Numbers block)

Since the variable "Length" = the number of digits in the score, it defaults to the last score digit or the 'ones."

Now set the 2nd from right sprite (the "10s place) to the same thing except use
letter (Length - 1) of Score

and the next sprite (the 100's place) uses Length - 2, etc for the rest. And there you go, now you have a scoring system that uses only sprites and is list-driven and looks like just a cool score readout to the player.

The biggest drawback I see is the need to know how many digits/sprites you will need for say a really high score but you will know that as you tweak and finish the game. Peace!

Wow! Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for! *goes and presses love it on all ur projects  "

There's a small problem though. When the score is 200, the visual score is 199. And when the score is 1000, the visual is 999. When its 1200, the visual is 0199... Is there a way I can fix this?? Help!!

Last edited by LordGaGa (2010-07-02 07:33:13)

Oh! I get it! The costumes has to be from 1 to 0! I was doing 0 - 9 . . . . .thanks!