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Hi,

I'm kinda new to FPSC - but I have read the manual and searched the forums, so please bear with me while I try to explain...

I want to create a game where the player can pick up entities that improve their stamina as well as their health. My idea is that if the player's stamina goes below a certain number, the walk speed of the player will slow down - if the player collects items of food (e.g. bananas, bread etc.) then their stamina score goes up by 5, say, until a maximum of 100.

I've already made some progress:

• I've edited the setuplevel.fpi in the languagebank\english\gamebank\mygame\ to include a 'Stamina' hud next to the 'Health' hud - this works fine.
• I've edited the .fpe file for my banana.x model to run a script called "pickupstamina.fpi" which says to add 5 points to the players health score (because there is no 'Stamina' option yet) - this works fine.
• I've created a hud image (with alpha channel) saying "You picked up a banana" and put it in the languagebank\english\gamecore\huds\ folder - this works fine.

My problem - and question - is: how do I tell the game engine that there is also a global setting/variable called 'Stamina' that can be added to and subtracted from depending on which items the player picks up? When you add a 'Player Start' marker and right-click it, you only have Lives, Health, Speed and HurtFall settings - is it possible to add 'Stamina' to this list?

Sorry about the long post - but I've been mucking around with this for about 2 days now without any joy. Any help would be appreciated!

Cheers,
BöneLörd

you can set additional huds images and text, but for working custom variables like Stamina, i dont know if it can be scripted. I will try to see.

As far as I know - nope. Although someone might beable to make some new script commands for you (or you do it yourself) with the source code.

There are no variables to use in the script appart from those already there. (Am I making sense at all)?

So, unless you find another way, I can't see how you can do that within the editor.

If you want to change the source code, well, that might be achieved I think.

V

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I've had another thought on how to achieve this if all the variables are hard coded into the engine:

As my game is more of a 'puzzler' than a 'shooter', I won't be giving the player any guns or ammo. I could maybe edit the ammo hud to be the 'Stamina' hud and also the .fpe of the banana entity to say 'isammo' and add or subtract values according to pick ups.

Maybe that'll do the trick? It's worth a go...

BöneLörd

Actually it's a very nice idea.

Good luck!

activateifused??? anyone remeber that???


:activate=1:incstate=1
:timergreater=1000:timerstart,decstate=1