Arcade style score formatting

In my playGui.gui, right at the bottom below //--- OBJECT WRITE END ---, I have a function that gets called to format the string used to display the score with:

function formatString(%string,%zeros){
	
%count = strlen(%string);
	
	 while (%count<%zeros){
		%newString=%newString@"0";
		%count++;		
	}

	%newString=%newString@%string;	
	return %newString;	
}

Obviously, pass in the string and the length of the string you'd like to make (ie. how many zeros you'd like it to add!!) You can see how the function is called in my little score updater script below:

function clientCmdClientScoreChanged(%Score){

        ScoreAmount.setText(formatString(%score,9)); // Where 9 is the length of the score in chars
       
}

That was the end of my little post ... just a tiny function to make your lives easier and your scores more funky ... then I decided, well, why not just keep going and see if we can cover basic scoring too? Here goes ...

Remember, I'm pretty new to this, so be kind if I miss anything ;)

It's basically a modified version of Tim Newells' awesome ammo resource

------------------ REALLY BASIC SCORING ----------------------------------------------------------

First up, make sure you added those two functions above to the very bottom of your playGui.gui script. Once you're sure ...

In server/scripts/game.cs at the bottom of the GameConnection::createPlayer function, add in:

commandToClient(%this, 'ClientScoreChanged', 0);

This resets the score to zero when the player is first added.

Now go into clientConnection.cs and, if you already have an incScore function in there, just add this after the %this.score += %delta; line:

commandToClient(%this, 'ClientScoreChanged', %this.score);

Just incase you don't have that GameConnection::incScore function already, you can add this one (otherwise just skip this bit, as you should have added the right stuff in the last step!! :p):

function GameConnection::incScore(%this,%delta)
{
   
   %this.score += %delta;
   commandToClient(%this, 'ClientScoreChanged', %this.score);
    
}

Finally, we want to add the score when something happens ... you can do this anywhere you need to on the server-side ... but if you are using AI, you can easily add this into player.cs in the Armor::damage function just after the line

if (%obj.getState() $= "Dead"){

%sourceClient.incScore(10); // where 10 is, of course, the number of points to add to players score

It should add score (and show up in the gui) whenever a player is killed.

I think that covers it ... if not, let me know :)

Enjoy!