Scratch

DewleafWolf · 2011-07-21 20:36:41

Okay, so both my brother and I are having this problem on our Scratch game projects. When the hero sprite attacks an enemy, a variable called Health (visible on the screen) depletes with each hit. The problem: when Health reaches 0, it continues to go into negative numbers...
I've tried:

If [ Health = 0 ]
((hide/change costume/etc.))

If [ Health < 0 ]
((hide/change costume/etc.))

No matter what I do with the Health variable, I can't get it to stop. I have about 3 Scratch projects with a Health, hunger or thirst bar with this same problem. So, how do you fix it?

Harakou · 2011-07-21 20:44:26

Checking if health is less than 0 (or more preferably, 1) should work. Does your script look something like this? (Possibly with other things in there too, but I don't know what the rest of your scripts look like.

Code:

When green flag clicked
forever
    if <health < 1>
        hide

DewleafWolf · 2011-07-21 22:55:21

It looks like changing "if" to "forever if" made it work! Thanks.

technoguyx · 2011-07-21 23:25:56

DewleafWolf wrote:
It looks like changing "if" to "forever if" made it work! Thanks.

That's because "Forever If" constantly checks whether something is true or not, while a plain "if" block checks it only in the moment you run it. wink