Transferring Property Values

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Hello.

This is my first post on the forum. I am not necessarily new at the Blender Game Engine, in fact I have a good bit of experience with it. However, I have next to no experience with Python scripting, and so if its required, please bare with me as I try and make sense of it. Thank you.

I am currently designing a dungeon exploring game that is based on random generation. Random loot, random enemies, random rooms, etcetera. However, I’ve run into an issue that I cannot fix for the life of me.

The player walks up to a chest, and activates it. A random actuator goes off, using the “integer uniform” setting, and it chooses a random number between 1 and 199. This value represents how much gold is looted from the chest.

The issue I have is that I have no idea how to replicate / transfer this integer to my gold gold counter, which is an integer on another object. I need the gold that is acquired to be added to the player’s gold stores.

If it helps, an example: the random actuator chooses 120 as its amount. The player already has his starting 100 gold. I need that 120 to be added to the 100 to make 220 gold. But I have absolutely no idea how to do this.

Any help that can be provided will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Thank you. This is super helpful. I’m going to try and mess around with this once I get a free moment. Also, thank you for the guides as well. They’re likely to help me quite a bit.

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http://www.pasteall.org/blend/42829
Here is the way I would do it. Press spacebar to add more gold.

On the treasure chest, I would give it a property int. called “chest” with the random set for however you have it.

On the player, I would make a property called “Gold” (players total gold) and a property called “chest1”. (players found gold copied from the chest) Both int.

So. . . To copy the property from the treasure chest “chest” to player “chest1”

On the player camera or whatever, always True----and-----copy property “chest1”
from treasure chest, property “chest”
Then I would do a property changed-----and------Assign property “Gold”
value: Gold + chest1. Type it without quotes, as it’s not looking for a string, but rather the player property Gold, and chest1.

So everytime the property is changed it adds players Gold with chest1.