Monster Death Counter on HUD

[Bunnelby64]

Hello!

I've come to ask for some help regarding something that I've been wanting to implement on my small project, a monster kill counter that displays somewhere around the player's hud and of course, increases every time a monster dies.
For this project I been working on it's based around being some kind of arcade-y kind of mod, where the player is set on an arena to duke it out against monsters and the more the player kills and the counter rises, special messages appear next to the kill counter, similar to something like Devil May Cry's combos or Ultrakill's.

The issue is, I am quite unsure of how to properly do something like this, at first, I thought of every time a monster dies, on their death state use [wiki]https://zdoom.org/wiki/A_GiveToTarget[/wiki] and give the player a CustomInventory item that works to increase the counter via maybe ACS, by constantly checking the player's inventory and if they have the CustomInventory item, the counter will keep increasing respectively, every time it reaches a certain amount (ie. 5, 15, 30), a different message will appear on the screen, encouraging the good work of the player.

I am unfortunately not that good at ACS scripting since for the most part of my own personal projects I've made, I've only worked with DECORATE and very little with ZScript, but I still hope anyone can help me or point me towards the right direction to accomplish this kind of effect!

Cheers and have a very nice day!

[SPZ1]

For a counter all you would have to do is make the monster trigger an ACS script (upon death) that increments a map scope variable. Then it could be displayed through HudMessage: https://zdoom.org/wiki/HudMessage

[Bunnelby64]

Excuse the late answer, got busy with life and kinda pushed this aside

Once I got back to this project I managed to make a counter working, it properly displays and increments a kill counter on the player's HUD, which is great! However, now I am struggling with making the script display a message once a certain number of kills has been achieved (I.e: 10 kills, 20, 30, so on).

I've tried to approach this issue by making the script check if the kill count required has been reached, if it has then displays the 1st message, which is something like "Nice!", then it should check if another amount has been reached to display the second message, however this doesn't happen and is the 1st message the one that keeps displaying on the screen regardless of how many amounts of monsters the player has killed.

Is there any workarounds for this? Thanks for your reply btw!

[Blue Shadow]

Order the if statements so that checking for the bigger values comes first:

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if (kills >= 30)
{
}
else if (kills >= 20)
{
}
else if (kills >= 10)
{
}

[Bunnelby64]

Aha! That is what I was missing all along! I did try something similar but didn't knew I had to check for the biggest value first to the lowest one and started to get a little frustrating not understanding why it wasn't properly working.

After implementing it and giving it a proper test I can say it's working the way I've been wanting it, thanks fellas!