hello all, it's nice to be posting on the clickteam forums once again after many many years.

i've decided to get into kliking again. this time my weapon of choice is the games factory 2 for its simplicity yet many many features. it is a huge step forward IMO

anyhow my question is how would i go about implementing upgrades for things like engine, tires, etc that are possible to be altered? i figure global values are a start, but still im stumped.. any help is appreciated

Yes you are on the right track.

For the engine upgrade for example.

You could have a base speed of the car -- lets say 50
It will be moving at speed 50 without any upgrades

So when they upgrade the engine you want it to be 5 faster.

You would store the 5 point upgrade in an global value called "engine_speed"

Then in your game set the speed of the car to 50+ global value engine_speed

or flags...

when the player gets the upgrade put flag 1 on

flag 1 is on... set speed to whatever!

Well the good things about using a value is the player can purchase a second upgrade that makes it even faster.

Simply by changing the value in the global value.

Jeffs way works quite well. This is pretty much exactly the way I've been doing it in a racing game I've been playing around with. Only difference is that I'm using Alt Values in each car rather than Global Values so that the AI cars can individually upgrade as well.

well the only problem I had with setting the speed of a car to whatever at the beginning of a frame is that.. it wouldn't happen! i don't know why, but for example if i do "Condition 1 is true, set Car 1 to Speed 55" the car doesn't actually move any faster. to prove that i set it to a speed like 100 and it didn't make any difference.. not sure why? is there a common explanation for it?

If the car's being controlled via the user controlled movement "Race car", then I think its speed is constantly changed by the movement rather than the events, so you wouldn't see any effect. Does "Set maximum speed" have the effect you're after?

that makes sense!

i tried maximum speed and garnered the same results. however i could have done something wrong, maybe i'll download the demo here at work and try out a couple of things.

however thanks for pointing that out, im sorry i didn't mention that i was using the race car movement, how silly of me. Jeff perhaps you could speak a little more on this one; am i going wrong or is this normal?

OK so setting maximum speed worked. im gonna try the other variables to see if they work as well but.. i'll consider this one figured out!

thanks again guys i appreciate it