how do I build a star based score?

Hey guys,

I am building a game with 10 levels and for every level I want to be able to get 3 stars based on the score. Is there a good tutorial online or method to do this for a beginner?

Thanks

For a beginner the best way might be to make a global variable for each level and set it to 1,2 or 3 depending on the star score for that level.

I was thinking the same thing but then in the level selection menu I ran into some problems...

I use a sprite with 4 frames for the stars, frame 0 is no stars, frame 1 is one star, and the same with frame 2 and 3, and then I made 9 instances of that object but now I have to figure out how I can get my score per level to save the correct frame of that sprite

I have a level_score variable that checkes if the score beats the level highscore and than 10 highscore_level variables for each level but now I am trying to figure out how I can get my highscore variable to be saved to the instance of that level

Set an instance variable on the level select sprites and number them in order. Then you say something like f object.var=1 set frame to global variable 1. If object.var=2 set frame to global variable 2. This matches the frame, and in a way the level, to the star score variables.

Made this real quick with C2 but you can open it in C3.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/qaawh13ng0jkyfc/StarSystem.capx/file

You can play with the visibility of the star so that you need a single frame in the Star Sprite.

Like Plinkie said the key is to have an instance variable for the Stars from 1 to 3 so they know when they need to become visible or not :)

Thanks guys,

I appreciate the help but it still doesn't work. It is probably some mistake in my event sheet or something so I will find it out.