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1s and 10s

by rennie moffat · in Torque Game Builder · 12/13/2010 (7:47 pm) · 8 replies

Hi there,
I have a simple question, but due to my newbish am asking your pros how to best do it. I am running a visible count, to count the number of strokes the user makes. Like golf, this count wil start at 0 and end when ever the player finishes. So it could go up to infiniti, but 99 will do. They way I am visually showing this via a HUD is to simply have a staticSprite with 10 frames. Frame 0 = 0 (shows the number 0), frame 1 = 1 and so on.

I have done this before but the difference here is that, in order to save time, I want to simply use 2 objects one to count the 1's, the other the 10's. What I have developed so far is this... but as you can see is time consuming. How through code, can I get the same results, minus the lines of code required in my method?

Thanks.
$s1L1BT = $s1L1BT + 1;
		%this.1s.setFrame($s1L1BT);
///once I hit 10, the two objects 1s and 10s must be adjusted
		if($s1L1BT == 10)
		{
			%this.1s.setFrame(0);
			%this.10s.setFrame(1);
			return;
		}
		else if($s1L1BT == 20)
		{
			%this.1s.setFrame(0);
			%this.10s.setFrame(2);
			return;
		}	
		else if($s1L1BT == 30)
		{
			%this.1s.setFrame(0);
			%this.10s.setFrame(3);
			return;
		}
///this pattern of course will continue on to 20, 30 and so on
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    Associate Matt Mitman
    #1
    12/13/2010 (8:16 pm)
    something like

    %this.1s.setFrame($s1L1BT % 10);
    %this.10s.setFrame(mFloor($s1L1BT / 10));

    should do the trick

    Torque Owner rennie moffat
    Renman3000
    #2
    12/13/2010 (8:33 pm)
    right. what is the "%" is the first line

    ($s1L1BT % 10);




    :?

    Associate Matt Mitman
    #3
    12/13/2010 (10:07 pm)
    % is modulus, which basically means "what is the remainder of x / y". So, 12 % 10 would equal 2.

    Associate Phillip O'Shea
    Violent Tulip
    #4
    12/13/2010 (10:11 pm)
    That is the modulus operator. Simply put, it gets the remainder from a divide operation:
    12 / 10 = 1.2
12 % 10 = 2
22 % 10 = 2
32 % 10 = 2
36 % 10 = 6
40 % 10 = 0
    Since everything in TorqueScript is a string, you could always get the character from the value:
    %tens = getSubStr( $s1L1BT, 0, 1 );
%ones = getSubStr( $s1L1BT, 1, 1 );

    Torque Owner rennie moffat
    Renman3000
    #5
    12/13/2010 (10:32 pm)
    Oh great guys, the modulus. Nice.

    and "getSubStr", the example gven in source is...
    // Prints 2345
echo( getSubStr( "0123456789" , 2 , 4 ) );

    how does this print 2345?



    I see it as printing 1, 3.

    :s

    Torque Owner Robert Fritzen
    Phantom Games Development
    #6
    12/13/2010 (10:57 pm)
    remember that with torque script, it follows the logic of C++, so index values start at 0, not 1.

    basically the above code says go to index 2 (3rd character) and get 4 characters following it.

    Torque Owner rennie moffat
    Renman3000
    #7
    12/13/2010 (11:12 pm)
    oh, ok, I was thinking, get character 2, and character 4. Thanks very much.


    ::)(

    Torque Owner rennie moffat
    Renman3000
    #8
    12/16/2010 (4:49 pm)
    Hi there,
    this is kind of a continuation of this thread. The number I am calculating here, is a few game score/factors, put thru an equation i devised and voila, the final score. However, I multiply this number (still with in the formula) by a 1000, to get a number that is in the 1000s. Other wise the number I get instead of 5000 for example would be 5. Not what I am interested in. of course on the flip side, and why I am posting is that I could get a score of 5383, but if I do not multiply by a 1000 I still get 5.


    Is there a way I can make sure my score value return has X amount of decimal points? So instead of a return of 5. I get a return of 5.383?



    Edit,
    on second thought this may be totally pointless.

    Cheers!

    :))((