Showing a Score

[PledgeDuster]

I recently read through and created the vertical shooter from Bruno's tutorial. (which might i say was extremely good) and i noticed in the action script that there was a score function.

I was wondering if anybody knew a way of showing the score within the game?

Thanks for your time :)

[Exodar]

Alright, I took a look at the tutorial and didn't see the score function you mentioned anywhere. In the following section of the code however, you can see that there is a score variable being updated:

function initDragons() {

for (i; i<dragons; i++) {

attachMovie("dragon", "dragon"+i, i);
dragon = _root["dragon"+i];
updateDragons(dragon);
dragon.onEnterFrame = function() {

if (this.hitTest(arrows)) {

score += 5;
trace(score);
arrowActive = false;
removeMovieClip(arrows);
updateDragons(this);

}
if (this._x>0) {

this._x -= this.velo;

} else {

updateDragons(this);

}

};

}

}

So to answer your question if you wanted to have the score shown within the game, here's what you can do:

1. Create a dynamic text field on the stage which will display the score
2. Give it an instance name, for ex. scoreText
3. Add the following code to the initDragons function above (right after the part in bold):
scoreText.text = score

Hope this helps

[JapanMan]

Alternatively, you can just give the dynamic text box a Variable name of "score"; no other code is needed, then. The "scoreText.text = score" is too much typing for me, so I do it this way ;)

[neilmmm]

it is better practice to use instance name than the var