Creating a multilevel game where you have to collect stolen Aliens-in-cilinders. I created a script where a counter is counting down the collected aliens (alienincilinder = alienincilinder - 1), a second counter is counting the amount of collected aliens (allcilinders = allcilinders + 1). For example in level 3 I have to pickup 5 Aliens I only can find 4 Aliens, my allcilinder counter = 4.
I am going to the next level 4 , I am going to use a Alien in cilinder script with 8 Aliens but my allcilinders counter must be 4 for start. Is it possible to take amounts to different levels (global?) maybe to use one script to use in all the levels?

yes but you need to save it out to a file when the level ends and then read it when the next level starts... this will be easier to add once the save & load feature is added as we should be able to simply add it into the code there.

Thanks smallg not so easy as I thought

I would look up lua functions on google. reading from and writing to a text file or data file.I don't know if this helps but these two pages of the lua site may help you here.
http://www.lua.org/pil/12.html and http://www.lua.org/pil/10.1.html#DataDesc

the second link shows how A lua program will read from a file. As for how to set this up in scripts on the gg map I don't know without a menu of sorts? If we could change(add to or take from what is loaded between each levels we could easily make this. . .

Hi!

Actually with a LOT of help from smallGod, and some from Mookosh as well as numerous other snippets, I have arrived at a nice working set of scripts to create a nice hud, working on 'in level only values, which then get added to the overall value count. So I am pretty much doing what you seek.

Just I need to extract and reduce down all of my 'fluff' to get to something you can work with so give me a couple of days.

If you don't hear from me by all means prompt me by PM or email phil.sadler@adm.co.za with a reminder...


cheers for now

Phil