Dynamic Text Box

[TheMasterOfSprites]

I am test programming an RPG Battle System for an upcoming game, and I have looked over several tutorials. They all say to set the dynamic text box, which I labled "HP," to a number in the first frame. So I set the dynamic text box to 100 by saying "HP=100;" yet it never shows up in the text box. This RPG will be real lame without health! Someone please help.

[FrubberDucky]

On the dynamic text box look for a little box in properties(at the bottomw here you specify font) saying "var". Then on the frame go toa ctons at type:

hp = 100;

If your specifying the hp ina movie clip or button use:

_root.hp = 100;

Remember actionscript is case sensetive!

[TheMasterOfSprites]

Still isn't working.

[Denvish]

Not label, var

[TheMasterOfSprites]

I don't get what var has to do with anything.

[FrubberDucky]

You specify the variable in this box on the dynamic text box not name it that etc.

[TheMasterOfSprites]

Okay, thank you, the health is appearing now. However, I want him to lose health when he is hit. So when the enemy is hit and the end of my attack animation I am using this code "_root.enemyhp = _root.enemyhp-random(30);" however it doesn't seem to be working. Anymore ideas?

[TheSongSalad]

try

if(this.hitTest(_root.whatever)){
hp -= random(35);
}

this will randomly subtract health if there is a hitest. just be sure to change whatever to what the hitest is with.

[putzpie]

Try something like this.

InstanceName.text = "HP:"+hp;

InstanceName being the instance name of the textbox.

[TheMasterOfSprites]

At 3/22/09 07:51 PM, TheSongSalad wrote: try

if(this.hitTest(_root.whatever)){
hp -= random(35);
}

this will randomly subtract health if there is a hitest. just be sure to change whatever to what the hitest is with.

I am not using a hit test I am using a turnbased RPG final fantasy system. So basically I want to press a button have him go through the action of attacking and then have health go down acordingly. I guess I could try working a hit test in but it has been so long I forgot how to program one.

[TheMasterOfSprites]

Got it to work, thank you.

[Kevvy]

Hi folks, I hope it's alright me hijacking this thread since it's fairly recent, concluded and relevant to what I'm about to ask! I used the methods described here to create a temperature gauge for a Home Ec game i'm making in Uni. So it will have to run on a plus instead of minus. For God only knows what reason simply replacing a - with a + in the code makes it go from 0 + 1 = 1 to 01, adding another one gets 011 etc etc. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[Kevvy]

Forgot to mention that as a minus it works fine, and also that I'm a coding simpleton, just seems strange that teh minus should work :P Thank again!

[ColdLogic]

At 3/30/09 01:01 PM, Kevvy wrote: Forgot to mention that as a minus it works fine, and also that I'm a coding simpleton, just seems strange that teh minus should work :P Thank again!

its because + can be used to attach two strings together, so useing it with a textbox could make it do that (1+1) would come up as 11, in order to avoid this, before updateing the display do the calculation

somevar = 1 + 1;
textbox = somevar;

i hope that makes sense.