i need some help, im trying to make a health system like in aum 12, but i want to make it so it dosent need templates, so i need a variable for player_health or whatever.

i know what needs to be done, but i dont know the language very well yet. i dont know how to write it out. im not asking for hand-outs. i dont want it done for me. (thats only a last resort) can someone just nudge me in the right direction? help me figure out how to write it out? or possibly another health system tutorial? if i can figure this out itd be great. it will open my eyes as to how the rest can be done.

You need to use defines my friend like this:
define health, skill1;
So, after that you can add health to any entity like this:
my.health = 100;
And my small advice for you my friend, start from LITE-C. There is no much differences between C-SCRIPT and LITE-C, but the second one works much faster and easier.

defines! oh why didnt i think of that.. ok ive got that set up. now, how can i let the game know that when i say
"my.health = 0"
it ends the game? im guessing a function right? and also ill probably need a function to make the hud as well? hm...

as for lite c, that sounds like a good way to do things, but id rather get it done in c script first, then decide whether or not to switch. only because c script is a tad easier for me to understand atm

btw ur site is cool you have msn or somthin?

About letting game know, if health equals to zero, just put in your main while loop this comparison "while(my.health > 0)", so everything in main loop will run till players health more that zero, I advice you to start from AUM, there are allot of useful snippets for you my friend. I have ICQ: 581003459 contact me if you'll need any help, or just PM me, I'll be glad to help Good luck

ok i need some new help, i have some code for health working but i need a starter to set the health to 100 when i start. and i cant figure it out..

heres what i have so far:



"hp" is the variable for health... what am i doing wrong? i have to call the function to add or subtract health to make the health panels visible. if you understand that


also, when i call the function to subtract health enough to get it to 0, it dosent exit the game, (thats what i told it to do for now), but wen i call the function to ibcrease health to over 100, it exits the game... i think somthing is backwards...

if you need more help understanding anything i will tell you what you need to know, but any help would be appreciated.

First, hp is a define, am I right? If it is, there needs to be my.hp or better player.hp, because your starter function doesn't has any entity pointers. But, why you need to do that any way? To set health to 100 when you start, is much easier to do like this:
action player_() // inside the player action, as I told you before
{
player = my;
my.hp = 100;
////
}

ok i tried that, it just says "parameter unkown hp parameter, even though its defined in another script!.....wat?

that means that you've defined it wrong!
Here how it should look like:
define hp, skill1;
And it should be right before your player action!!!

ok that works, but the hp panel for 100 is still not showing up, which means somthing else is wrong too...

How are you trying to view the health? You use panels, do you?)