Lua Programming Help Thread

That's because you start the timer right at the start of your code, by the time the time left has started, the PSP has already spent 1sec loading in graphics and getting to the main loop.

Edit: Oh you meant you wanted 100 seconds. Nevermind then.

now i need to make the hi score save if its higher than the current hi score, how does this work?
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also, whats wrong with this:

Code:

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if TimeLeft < 1 then
screen:clear
screen:print(200,135,"Game Over, Your score was: "..score,red)
end

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g2g for lunch now.. ill check back here l8r for answers.

jaso you need a parentheses after the screen:clear so it looks like this screen:clear() and for the hi-score do something like this


if highscore < score then
highscore = score
end

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Zitat von mark.sparky

jaso you need a parentheses after the screen:clear so it looks like this screen:clear() and for the hi-score do something like this


if highscore < score then
highscore = score
end

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wouldnd it be:

Code:

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if highscore > score then
highscore = score
end

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but i guess it depends.

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Zitat von Grimfate126

wouldnd it be:

Code:

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if highscore > score then
highscore = score
end

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but i guess it depends.

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No, because then if the high score was greater than the score, the high score would be changed to the lower score.

no because that would be

if highscore is less than score then
highscore equals score
end

which doesnt make any sense

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Zitat von Grimfate126

wouldnd it be:

Code:

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if highscore > score then
highscore = score
end

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but i guess it depends.

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it still wouldnt save it, when i reset the game, the high score will go down to nil, i want it so it writes the high score to a file. also how would i read the contents of that file? (anyone who helps me will go down on a list of all the people that have helped me and they will get some credit for the finished game)

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Zitat von JaSo PsP

it still wouldnt save it, when i reset the game, the high score will go down to nil, i want it so it writes the high score to a file. also how would i read the contents of that file? (anyone who helps me will go down on a list of all the people that have helped me and they will get some credit for the finished game)

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write contents

score = io.open("score.txt","w")
score:write(highscore)
score:close()

read

highscore = io.open("score.txt","r")
thehighscore = highscore:read()
highscore:close()

With the read function, the variable "thehighscore" is you high score read from the file.

this works by the way:

Code:

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if TimeLeft < 1 then
levelTimer:stop()
screen:clear()
screen:print(200,100,"Game Over, Your Score was: "..score,red)
end

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-= Double Post =-

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Zitat von Access_Denied

write contents

score = io.open("score.txt","w")
score:write(highscore)
score:close()

read

highscore = io.open("score.txt","r")
thehighscore = highscore:read()
highscore:close()

With the read function, the variable "thehighscore" is you high score read from the file.

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thanx, this game is so near completion. ill submit it soon.

ps: what does the w and r mean on the io open brackets?

hi score works now

Zitat:

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Zitat von JaSo PsP

this works by the way:

Code:

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if TimeLeft < 1 then
levelTimer:stop()
screen:clear()
screen:print(200,100,"Game Over, Your Score was: "..score,red)
end

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-= Double Post =-


thanx, this game is so near completion. ill submit it soon.

ps: what does the w and r mean on the io open brackets?

hi score works now

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The "w" means write and the "r" means read

Go to evilmana.com and look at thier tutorial on reading and writing files. It'll give you a whole list of functions like that.