Problems with highscore

boberto

So I have a highscore counter in the game. My rules say this:
If game.Score>game.highscore
do
Change attribute game.highscore to game.score.
But my highscore always stays at 0.
What am I doing wrong?

Socks

Your rules are set up incorrectly.

tatiang

The most detailed information you can provide is to upload your project file. Second to that is a screenshot of your rules. Without seeing exactly how you have things set up, it's tough to guess but here goes:

Check that your actor is not an instance. To do this, double-click on the actor. If it shows a lock symbol, it is still a prototype. If not, you've already unlocked the actor and given it unique instance rules that might be different from the prototype in the actor browser window.

You might have typed in an attribute name instead of selecting it from the Attribute Browser.

You might have forgotten to add the actor to the scene.

You might have a rule condition that isn't triggering when you expect it to or isn't triggering at all (Log Debugging Statements are helpful in determining this).

Also, you're posting in the Help Wanted subforum which usually indicates that this is a paid request. Are you using a Mac or PC? I can move this to the appropriate "Working with ______" subforum for you.

boberto

@tatiang said:
The most detailed information you can provide is to upload your project file. Second to that is a screenshot of your rules. Without seeing exactly how you have things set up, it's tough to guess but here goes:

Check that your actor is not an instance. To do this, double-click on the actor. If it shows a lock symbol, it is still a prototype. If not, you've already unlocked the actor and given it unique instance rules that might be different from the prototype in the actor browser window.

You might have typed in an attribute name instead of selecting it from the Attribute Browser.

You might have forgotten to add the actor to the scene.

You might have a rule condition that isn't triggering when you expect it to or isn't triggering at all (Log Debugging Statements are helpful in determining this).

Also, you're posting in the Help Wanted subforum which usually indicates that this is a paid request. Are you using a Mac or PC? I can move this to the appropriate "Working with ______" subforum for you.

I will check all of those, thanks. Sorry for posting in the wrong place, I had no idea. I'm working with PC.

boberto

@Socks said:
Your rules are set up incorrectly.

How so?

tatiang

I will check all of those, thanks. Sorry for posting in the wrong place, I had no idea. I'm working with PC.

No worries!

What @Socks meant is that there's something about how your rules and behaviors were created that is causing the problem you described but there's no way to know without seeing them (which is what I said but in a few more words).

boberto

Ok, I figured it out. My rules were actually correct, the actor that displays my highsore wasn't working.

tatiang

Glad you figured it out! In what way was the actor not working?

boberto

@tatiang said:
Glad you figured it out! In what way was the actor not working?

I thought I could make it display text like this:
Display text: Highscore:game.highscore
but I guess you can't have text and an attribute display at the same time.

RThurman

You can concatenate text and an attribute like this:
"Highscore: "..game.highscore

Hopscotch

but I guess you can't have text and an attribute display at the same time.

@boberto sure you can, wrap the text in quotes and use two full-stops for concatenation, like so:

"Highscore : "..game.highscore

boberto

@Hopscotch said:

but I guess you can't have text and an attribute display at the same time.

@boberto sure you can, wrap the text in quotes and use two full-stops for concatenation, like so:

"Highscore : "..game.highscore

Oh ok good to know