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[Catacomber]

I have scenes where you fight a monster.  The script to fight the monster is below.  But it occurs to me that the player might stop fighting the monster---that is stop pressing the spell button.

Now I don't know any self-respecting monster who wouldn't take advantage of that to deliver a big WHAMMO to the player.

But how do you code the player getting reduced health when player doesn't do anything?

Can't be on left click, can't be on spells, player isn't doing anything at all.  Ball is in monster's court.

Code: WME Script

1. on "spells"
2.   {
3.     var k = Scene.GetNode("Kaboom");
4.     health = hud.GetControl("health");
5.     ehealth = hud.GetControl("ehealth");
6.     CBeans = hud.GetControl("CBeans");
7.       if(!(ehealth.Text == 0) && !(CBeans.Text == 0))
8.       {
9.         k.Active = true;
10.         k.Visible = true;
11.         Game.PauseMusic+site:docs.dead-code.org/wme/generated&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&filter=0">PauseMusic();       
12.         this.PlaySound("Music\Explode.ogg");
13.         hud.SubtractHealth(5);
14.         hud.SubtractEH(10);
15.         hud.SubtractMana(1);
16.         Sleep(200);
17.         k.Active = false;
18.         k.Visible = false;
19.       }
20. else
21.       {
22.         ehealth = hud.GetControl("ehealth");
23.         CBeans = hud.GetControl("CBeans");
24.           if(!(ehealth.Text == 0) && (CBeans.Text == 0))
25.      {
26.         var x = hud.GetControl("loc");
27.         x.Text = "Better drink some coffee.  Your caffeine level is 0.";
28.      }
29. else
30.     {
31.     eh = hud.GetControl("eh");
32.     ehealth = hud.GetControl("ehealth");
33.     CBeans = hud.GetControl("CBeans");
34.       if((ehealth.Text == 0) && !(CBeans.Text == 0))
35.         {
36.           var Ent = Scene.GetNode("Ent");
37.           Ent.Active = false;
38.           Ent.Visible = false;
39.           Game.UnloadObject("Ent");
40.           eh.Visible = false;
41.           ehealth.Visible = false;
42.           Game.ResumeMusic();
43.        }
44.        }
45.        }
46.        }
47.  

I'm not terribly hung up on this as our game has a lot going on other than fighting and our monsters could all be wimps (I have a pet python who is a total wimp, to some he might be considered a monster), but the question entered my mind.  ;  )))   

[mylesblasonato]

Hi Catacomber,
What you need is a while loop that tests all the time if something is getting pressed or if an event is happening, if it's not then loose health. You will need a timer before the while loop as well to give the players time to do something, after that timer (say 5 seconds) is gone then you do the while test loop. If something happens then do this, if nothing then lose health.

Hope this makes sense, if it doesn't then let me know and ill do the code for it
Cheers
Myles Blasonato.

[Catacomber]

Let me try it, Myles, and if I can't get it to work, if it is OK with you, I will pm you. 

[Catacomber]

Well, I got up a script and it works so well the player is dead within minutes.  :  ) ) )

Code: WME Script

1. for (var timer=6;timer>-1;timer = timer -1)
2.   {
3.     spells = hud.GetControl("spells");//spell button
4.     while (spells.Pressed = false)
5.   {
6.     hud.SubtractHealth(2);
7.     Sleep(100);
8.   }
9.   }
10.  

So I guess my timer should be longer or sleep longer.  :  ) 

Much thanks -- this seems to be the solution.

[Catacomber]

A timer of 100 and a sleep of 1000 works very well!!!!

Thanks again!!!!  Now my spell system is complete and monsters are no longer sissies!!!! 

[Catacomber]

Code: WME Script

1. for (var timer=100;timer>-1;timer = timer -1)
2. {
3. ehealth = hud.GetControl("ehealth");
4. health = hud.GetControl("health");
5. spells = hud.GetControl("spells");
6. var Ent = Scene.GetNode("Ent");
7. while (spells.Pressed == false && !(ehealth.Text == 0) && !(health.Text == 0))//ehealth is health of monster and health is health of player
8.   {
9.     hud.SubtractHealth(1);
10.     Game.PauseMusic+site:docs.dead-code.org/wme/generated&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&filter=0">PauseMusic();
11.     this.PlaySound("Music\Whoosh.ogg");
12.     Sleep(1000);
13.   }
14.   }
15.  
16.  

I had to tweak this to test whether the monster had health and the player had health.  Now this works fine.  The whoosh stuff is just the sound effect the monster makes on attacking.  I am starting to think like a computer in 0's and 1's---how lovely.  : )

I don't know where that + site stuff comes from when you put your code inside the code tags here.  That command is just

Game.PauseMusic();
this.PlaySound("Music\Whoosh.ogg");

I didn't type all that strange stuff.  :  )