koobas.hobune.stream
Help with retroactive score multiplier
This problem has bugged me so many time in the past in different ways: the multiplier works fine, the only problem is that it affects my damageTaken retroactively (as my enemy moves closer or farther). How can I constantly update the score, save it somewhere and keep adding whilst using the multiplier?
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Why not store the health as a float? It will avoid damage being rounded down to 0.
Currently the only way to not affect all the hits taken is to convert the new damage to ints, which will be 0 most of the time.
Yep, it was the rounding that made the difference! Thank you :-)
I thought that the multiplier was retroactively changing the score, as my score seemed to be getting smaller at some stage, but now it works!
Your score will still change, if you get a shot further from your enemies, what you need is
damageTaken += percentageDamagePerDistance;
I actually solved it like this:
damageTaken = damageTaken + 1 * damagePerDistance;
Which is exactly equivalent to
damageTaken += 1 * damagePerDistance;
Which is equivalent to
damageTaken += damagePerDistance;
Which I suggested above
Right you are Sir! Yes that 1 was a tad redundant. Sorry, I'm rather new at this but thanks for your patience and help!
No worries, you'll get there in no time. Besides, verbose code that works is just as good, if that verbosity helps the readability.
