little thing with life.
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| [monkeycode] If Self.lifebit>1 If Self.life>= Self.lifebit*2 Self.frame=0 Else If Self.life>=Self.lifebit And Self.life<=Self.lifebit*2 Self.frame=1 Else If Self.life<=Self.lifebit Self.frame=2 End If End If [/monkeycode] In a nut shell I am changing the appearence of my sprite based on its life , given the fact that each alien might have different amounts of life. At the moment as the player damages down a boss the sprite changes 3 times to reflect the amount of damage done , but I now want to catch the point it actually switches frames so I can emphasis it a bit by throwing off some particles. I know a way of doing it already but its not as nice as I would like and this bit of code just dont look right to me anyway so thought I would share. |
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| keep track of the previous/old value of Self.frame, compare the old and current values and if they differ then trigger the particles. |
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| yeah that's exactly what I was going to do, but it was when I went to type that into the space after the first else if that I realized I was setting that frame value every single loop. And it only really needs set once each change. I know I'm probably on going to shave a tiny amount of performance out of it but.. still!. lol |
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| Use a Property. As simple as it gets. When the value of the Property is modified, act accordingly. That what properties are for. Quick sample: [monkeycode]Function Main() Local a:StatusItem a.Status = 354 'The Setter is called. Print a.Status 'The Getter is called. End Class StatusItem 'This is the getter: Method Status:Int() Property Return _status End 'This is the setter Method Status:Void(value:Int) Property if value<>_status Then 'It has changed. 'action here!!! EndIf _status = value End Private Field _status:int End[/monkeycode] |
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