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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 17:28

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hey i wanted to know if...because im making a zombie game that when you get hit by a zombie a timer starts and you have like 30 seconds to find an antidote and if you do the timer stops and you survive

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 17:43

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Yes.

In the zombie attack script, when he does damage to the player, you start a timer. I guess you would want to display this timer on the screen so you would need to write the code to display the proper number at each increment of the timer. If the timer completes you subtract 500 from the players health, killing him, or you subtract a portion of health at each timer increment.

Make the antidote a pickup and in the pickup script you play a sound, reset the timer and add 500 to the players health.

Done right it would take a lot of code and probably eat up some FPS, but yeah, it can be done. It's not something someone is going to want to tackle for you unless they need it too, probably.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 18:09

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Instead of a timer display with different numbers showing as the timer decreases, why not make a .gif image to make the task a whole lot simpler. Although, if I remember correctly it is quite hard to implement .gifs into FPSC, good luck with it anyway.

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Posted: 9th Apr 2007 20:22

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Xplosis is right, except that with that technique, killing the zombie will also deactivate the timer.... therefore meaning you won't have to collect an anitode, jsut kill a zombie.

perhaps it would be better to do this:

in the setuplevel.fpi script, add the lines

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:state=1,plrhealthless=450:timerstart
:state=1,timergreater=50000:plraddhealth=-10000

ok, so now make sure that a zombie does 51 damage in an attack.

this means that the timer is autonimous (separate) from the zombie, and therefore will continue even if the zombie is killed. your antidote must restore the players health to 500 for it to work.

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Quote: "Although, if I remember correctly it is quite hard to implement .gifs into FPSC"

I'd ignore it. It's innumerably hard to implement an animated gif into FPSC as the filetype isn't supported.