counting health without endgame

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:26 am

I want to tally health in the middle of the game and award points, but counting means taking and taking all the health makes the game end.

#take health 100
#give health 100

ends the game (assuming you have exactly 100 health)
yet we know the odd truth that:

#endgame
#give health 100

does not end the game. any ideas?

Xhin · Post by **Xhin** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:42 am

#take health 100
#give health 100

Doesn't end the game, although if there's an idle or any other type of command that doesn't happen instantaneously, it will make your game go into hyperspeed. So, just keep taking health until you are incapable, and then immediately give back at least one health point.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:53 am

well this is sort of what I had, but it goes into super speed

:loop
#take health 1 #done
#give score 1
#loop
:done
#give health 100

it executes a couple lines after getting to 0 health before giving health so I guess that's why it doesn't work

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:59 am

Commodore wrote:well this is sort of what I had, but it goes into super speed

:loop
#take health 1 #done
#give score 1
#loop
:done
#endgame
#give health 100

Fixed for you.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:20 am

no i tried that. the hyper effect starts when health reaches zero and doing an endgame after the effect starts doesn't slow the game back down.

Microwave · Post by **Microwave** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:41 am

:loop
#take health 3#check2
#give score 3
#loop
:check2
#take health 2#done
#give score 2
#loop
:done
#give score 1
#give health 98

Does that work?

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:11 pm

Commodore wrote:no i tried that. the hyper effect starts when health reaches zero and doing an endgame after the effect starts doesn't slow the game back down.

Could the stat order cause that?

Because I ended up making a test world with code exactly like that before seeing your own code.

Post by **Quantum P.** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:49 pm

You could do it backwards:

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#give score 100
#start
:loop
#give health 1
#take score 1
:start
#take health 100 loop
#give health 100

There's still one #take health in there, so it might still send you into hyperspeed. Might be solvable by throwing in an idle before the #take health. I haven't tested it.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:57 pm

actually dos you were right, I don't know what I was doing before wrong though because I thought I tried that.

ok. thx