Well, I'd like to offer some help, but when I try to run it, I get "illegal picture ID number '0'. (On line 32). Did you forget to include one of the pictures?
Also, its very difficult to see how to help (starting line 431) when your code is not properly indented. When its all in one huge horizontal line its very hard to read
and understand. If indentation is not a habit, I suggest using ctrl+i , which does it for you. In this case, since there is so much to indent Turing does not have
enough memory to indent it. I began to do it manually, and I think I see the pattern in your code which can probably be simplified using loops. Otherwise, to quicken a long sequence of ifs you can use elsifs.
Heres my suggestion based on a small section of that big line of ifs. I based it on my assumption that your comparisons are always going up by twos, and your assingment to the variable notesdiff is going from 1 to 5 then back down to 1 (1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5 and so on). If this pattern does not continue, the following code may not work for all the way to 914 notes or whatever.
First of all, elsifs will shorten the length of your code (see tutorial: http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=14656&highlight=elsif) as follows
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if totalnotes > 1 then DIFF := 150 elsif totalnotes > 3 then notesdiff := 3 elsif totalnotes > 5 then notesdiff := 4 elsif totalnotes > 7 then notesdiff := 5 elsif totalnotes > 9 then notesdiff := 4 elsif totalnotes > 11 then notesdiff := 3 elsif totalnotes > 13 then notesdiff := 2 elsif totalnotes > 15 then notesdiff := 1 end if |
However, the above will not help in your case, since Turing looks over these ifs chronologically, and once one of them is met, the check is complete.
Ex. if totalnotes is 4, the first if just wants greater than 1, and 4 is greater than 1, so notesdiff would be 1. I am guessing that you want notesdiff to
be 3 when totalnotes is 4. You'll have to fix that for checking if totalnotes is between certain numbers.
Your ifs check greater than 3, and then greater than 5. Im guessing your greater than 3 wants the numbers that are greater than 3, but not greater
than 5, meaning the numbers 4 and 5 are acceptable. You'll need two checks in each line to do that:
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if totalnotes > 1 and totalnotes<4 then DIFF := 150 elsif totalnotes > 3 and totalnotes<6 then notesdiff := 3 elsif totalnotes > 5 and totalnotes<8 then notesdiff := 4 elsif totalnotes > 7 and totalnotes<10 then notesdiff := 5 elsif totalnotes > 9 and totalnotes<12 then notesdiff := 4 elsif totalnotes > 11 and totalnotes<14 then notesdiff := 3 elsif totalnotes > 13 and totalnotes<16 then notesdiff := 2 elsif totalnotes > 15 and totalnotes<18 then notesdiff := 1 end if |
Now thats still a lot of code to go all the way to 914, but the between checks are always going up by twos, and notesdiff is 1 to 5 and down to 1.
The following should help, although the loop is still a little lengthy ( still shorter than 914 lines or so
)
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for interval:1..number_notes by 16 %you can treat 1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2 as one block, which is 8 numbers %but each check is by twos, so you'll go by 16, which will continue %that cycle if totalnotes>interval and totalnotes<(interval+3) then %if its between say 1 and 4, then its 1 notesdiff:=1 elsif totalnotes>interval+2 and totalnotes<(interval+3+2) then %if its between 3 and 6, then its 2 (and so on) notesdiff:=2 elsif totalnotes>interval+4 and totalnotes<(interval+3+4) then %I showed it in +3 and +4 instead of +7 so you see the pattern notesdiff:=3 elsif totalnotes>interval+6 and totalnotes<(interval+3+6) then notesdiff:=4 elsif totalnotes>interval+8 and totalnotes<(interval+3+8) then notesdiff:=5 elsif totalnotes>interval+10 and totalnotes<(interval+3+10) then notesdiff:=4 elsif totalnotes>interval+12 and totalnotes<(interval+3+12) then notesdiff:=3 elsif totalnotes>interval+14 and totalnotes<(interval+3+14) then notesdiff:=2 end if end for |
I hope that helps quicken your task, although I cant get your code to run, so I don't know if it works properly, or If I made some errors.
It still seems like I could shorten the loop a little. Oh well, i hope I at least gave you some ideas of how to use loops to help you shorten lengthy ifs.
Good luck, and I look forward to seeing the finished product
also in the past i had my guitar hero using random integers so you could change diffgame (a var) and diffgame would affect speed, spacing, and make it easy medium or hard. For the multiplier I know it some what jibs out but To get the star power going and make the multiplier double is causeing problems mathimaticly also what do you mean by those box things? loading screen is fake but it was mainly to prepair the player form the game so he/she has more time to get ready.