[RESOLVED] "Respawning" Bitmaps and adding lives

Hiya,

i'm building a small game and seem to be having trouble with having my code respawn a projectile

currently i'm using an if statement

the projectiles are stored as Bitmap graphics

Code:

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if cshtProjectileX >= pnlGame.width then
graProjectile.translatetransform(-3,0)
else if cshtProjectileX <= pnlGame.Width then
CshtProjectileX = 401
graProjectile.translatetransform(-3,0)

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the Object Moves successfully the first time through but wont respawn

as for the Lives matter, i have something like this

Code:

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if intPoints = 100 then
Health += 1
lblHealth.text = Health.tostring

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this works successfully for the first 100 points, how would i go about it for every 100 points?

Thank you
-Shappy

For the second question, something like this should work:

Code:

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If intPoints > 0 AndAlso intPoints Mod 100 = 0 Then
  Health += 1
  lblHealth.Text = Health.ToString

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dot...s/mod-operator

Edit: This code assumes that your score increases in such a way that the score will always exactly reach multiples of 100. If there is a chance that your score will go from 99 to 101, for example, then the above code won't work the way you want it to and additional code would need to be written to accommodate that scenario.

Thank you so much, the answer was definitely easier then what i was making it out to be for the life system.

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Originally Posted by Shappy

Hiya,

i'm building a small game and seem to be having trouble with having my code respawn a projectile

currently i'm using an if statement

the projectiles are stored as Bitmap graphics

Code:

---

if cshtProjectileX >= pnlGame.width then
graProjectile.translatetransform(-3,0)
else if cshtProjectileX <= pnlGame.Width then
CshtProjectileX = 401
graProjectile.translatetransform(-3,0)

---

...

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I can't quite figure out what that code is doing, it doesn't make sense to me.
Is CshtProjecttileX even being modified?
You're doing a graProjectile.translatetransform(-3,0) which will change where coordinate (0,0) is relative to things being drawn using graProjectile, but that won't change the X or Y coordinates of anything being drawn, it just changes the coordinate space being drawn on.

I'm thinking that you're not using translatetransform the way it should be used, but I'm not sure what graProjectile is either. I would guess a graphics object, but perhaps its a textureBrush reference or something else.

graPrjectile would be a graphics object, and I think I understand what you mean the image might look as it’s moving but it’s coordinates aren’t being changed.