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budisourdog 4 18 Jul, 2024 @ 1:08pm
Directly reference a variable?
Why can't I directly input a variable into stuff, like the zombie spawn counts menu?
IE
Player chooses "hard difficulty" > zombie spawns multiplier variable "DIF" is set to 4 > wave event you can't input "DIF" in the number of zombies to spawn.

I have a temporary workaround in looping with DIF=(DIF-1) and IF DIF=0 then exitloop: but this doesn't work for my second project, a zombie assault map, where the numbers are far higher meaning it loops like 600 times causing lag.
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budisourdog 4 18 Jul, 2024 @ 1:10pm 
(that loop example is wrong you actually have to use a second variable that copies the value of the 1st in your loop, and have it reset itself to the value of the real variable after the loop exits)
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KarEssMoua [BHVR] 32 19 Jul, 2024 @ 8:20am 
You can set up this variable at the beginning of your level, and then use this variable to be a condition for wave size.

Meaning if a player set the difficulty to 4, you can set the condition for your waves in the condition cell of a wave event.

You can also repeat the wave depending of the difficulty, or rather increase zombies stats to avoid lags with massive waves.
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budisourdog 4 19 Jul, 2024 @ 1:15pm 
The biggest problem is that the # can and will vary from 1-400 as the player buys more units and scales the waves.
I want to just make it a 1 line arithmetic literally VAR*zombies.
Looping one at a time works, but that lag stacks up fast.
I could maybe rig up a convoluted series of loops to process numbers in bulk by like VAR>=50... dammit I think that might work its gonna be so cursed.
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KarEssMoua [BHVR] 32 19 Jul, 2024 @ 2:45pm 
You can do that, but to deminish the lags you can set up higher "checkpoints". So instead of

If 1 soldier created = 1 runner
you can go for
10 soldiers created = 10 runners

You can also mix infected to tougher up your waves:

Like
Condition in an event wave
Count(Soldier)>=10
You spawn one chubby

Though, to create a loop, that would require one or two additional variables so you can scale up chubbies automatically every 10 additional soldiers
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budisourdog 4 22 Jul, 2024 @ 4:35pm 
yes I was most concerned about the zombie assault map (like "We are Billions")
I've re-written the entire code to be a loop with multiple blocks, 100, 50, 25, 10, and 1 each can trigger, subtract their values from the controlling variable, when it hits 0 the loop exits and resets the control variable to the correct value. Much less lag now.
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