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Hi,
the game I am working on finishes when the Hero is killed (naturally:).

I have the following code to go to the LevelgameOver:

if(!this.getHero()){	// Level restarts if Hero is killed
			this.gameOver = true;
			this.myDirector.jumpTo(LevelGameOver);
			
		}

The problem is that at the game launch the game instead of starting at the LevelIntro, goes directly to the LevelGameOver, since this.getHero() returns NULL when I start the game.

Is there a smart workaround?

Thank you!

What about:

if ( this.getHero() ) {
    if ( this.getHero.health <= 0 ) {
        this.gameOver = true;
        this.myDirector.jumpTo( LevelGameOver );
    }
}

Hi samgreen, thanks! But it never gets to the condition health<=0. The hero = null, is always the first. I had to eventually specify in the code that if on LevelIntro, then ignore the hero. Is not so elegant though:(

If you post some more code I might be able to help you out with it. You can use the method:

entity.kill()

to automatically set an entity's health to zero and remove it from the scene.

Hi thanx, samgreen, the problem is that I cannot run a check on this.getHero().health in main.js, since at the game load, the hero entity is not created. So I have to check if getHero() is there at all first.

getHero() returns null if either the game loads or the hero gets killed.

Therefore if I say in the main.js:

if ( !this.getHero() ) {
    
        this.gameOver = true;
        this.myDirector.jumpTo( LevelGameOver );
    }

Then the game goes directly to the gameOver after the load. I used a check on level and it works:

if(this.currentLevel == LevelMain){
			if(!this.getHero()){	// Level restarts if Hero is killed
				this.gameOver = true;
				this.myDirector.jumpTo(LevelGameover);
				
			}
		}

But this is no good way to do it. Is there a better way?

Where are you putting the hero test?

If it's in your MyGame.init(), do the this.myDirector.loadLevel() before you test to see if your hero exists.