Help with tables

shmartybirdshmartybird Member Posts: 17
in Working with GS (Mac)
Hey everyone. Been using GS for about 6 months and love it!

I'm working on a game where every time you steal from an actor, a rule randomly selects a table column to give you either: 0 bread, 1 bread, 2 bread. Currently, an actor is spawned (little loaf of bread) and fades out every time you steal.

The problem is: I want NO bread actor to spawn when 0 is randomly chosen; One bread actor to spawn when 1 is randomly chosen; and Two bread actors to spawn when 2 is randomly chosen from my table.

I just know there is a solution to this but I cannot figure it out. There are lots of actors too so I'm weary of creating lots of booleans...

Any ideas?

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  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    edited March 2013
    Why are you using a table? Do you have other values (e.g. image names, etc.) in the table? If not, just do Change Attribute game.randomNumber to (0,2) and then set up a rule that loops using game.randomNumber as the maxIteration value. You can use the mod loop or any of the loops in my demo: http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/380285/#Comment_380285.

    If you must use a table, you would still pick a random value but you would grab table values using game.randomNumber as your row number (and inside of a rule that makes sure game.randomNumber>0).


    Edit: if you're using numbers other than 0, 1, and 2, you need to say so. I just realized that maybe your table contains values like 0, 1, 8, 12, etc. and you just wrote that as an example. The loop method I described will still work but I just added this comment because sometimes people try to simplify their questions and they instead obfuscate exactly what they need to know.
  • shmartybirdshmartybird Member Posts: 17
    Perfect!! The randomNumber attribute is exactly what was I missing! [Yes I only had 3 rows in my 'inventory' table (0,1,2).]

    Thanks so much for the help tatiang. I've been playing about with this issue for days!!
  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    You're welcome! :)
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