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HELP) Swap bitmaps in a gui to display remaining lives

by William James · in Torque Game Builder · 02/07/2008 (7:49 pm) · 1 replies

I have 3 bitmaps that display the player's remaining lives (life1,life2,life3). How would I get it to change the bitmap depending on how many lives left? Would I put the if statements in the .gui file? I'll keep searching other post. I think the healthbar examples I've seen around may help.
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Associate Phillip O'Shea
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02/07/2008 (8:57 pm)
You're going to have to control it in script, not in the GUI itself. You could do something like:

function updateLivesGui(%this)
{
    %livesLeft = %this.Lives;
    
    %i = 1;
    while (isObject("life" @ %i)
    {
        %object = "life" @ %i;
        %object.Visible = (%livesLeft == %i);
    }
}

That should loop through all of the elements with the name "life1"..."lifeN" and change them to hidden while the nth life is shown. You could change the condition to "<=" rather than "==" to make them display differently.