Create a Scoring System using python

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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hi again!!

This time I have a scoring system almost working that might need a little correction.

I start by setting my variables:

#This is the score we begin with (at this time)
oldScore = 0

#basicly mean that we set the score to the score+the points earned
newScore = (int(oldScore+scoreToAdd))

So to see the score I made a text object that always changes to the newScore

score.text = str(newScore)

This also works properly.

Finaly I change the oldScore to = newScore (works fine)

everything work as expected until we get this part of the script to trigger again. Than the oldScore = 0 again !

To make it clearer is here the actual code part:

if letterA:
    
    if pressA.positive:
        
        newScore = (int(oldScore+scoreAdd))
       
        score.text = str(newScore)
    
        letterA.endObject()
        
        oldScore = newScore

I think that this doesnt work as the script itself is triggered by ‘pressA’ (a keyboard sensor)
would it be better with a custom property??

Thanks again for the help on this code!

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Well I’m not really into programming or anything, but i think the problem is how you are setting your oldScore variable, if i understand correctly, the script will always run from top to bottom, so say you played a game and got a newScore, when you started the script again, it would just change it back to 0. You would have to make sure that you setting oldScore = 0 happens once on the game start.

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Alright so I created a custom property for my score and I can even call it through python but I get stuck there.

Maybe my brain is just to tired and its obvious but can you tell me how to modify that property through python.(add the score)

here is what I understand :

The score property in the variable oldScore.

oldScore = own.get(“zScore”)

so basicly if I say

oldScore = newScore it changes the variable but not the property :S

What I really want is zScore to = newScore

but whriting down zScore = newScore will create a variable called zScore instead of calling the property

Ah god . (1st week using blender and learning python. How long does it take to get fluent ?)

Thx again for the help btw!

4

well you don’t really need to use get, you could just put oldScore = own[“zScore”] i believe

5

yeah I just figured it out I used :

own[“zScore”] = newScore
and it works perfectly !