CircleCount

[Rideg]

Hello. back again and hungry to learn more...
Straight to the question, is there a way to see how many circles there are in a scene? Or to make spawned boxes not count as a geom? Like glue it to the backround and then delete it? Please help me, I'm on my biggest thyme project (so far).

If someone knows how to count circles with cake like "sim.circlesWithCakeCount" or how to make one yourself that would also be appricieated.

I hope my english is alright.

[TimTheOne]

To see how many circles there are, you can select all (ctrl+a) go to select -> select circles.
then you can go to velocity, where it will say 'Velocity for ... circles'

idk how you can see it in scripts. maybe you can do it in variables. if you have 10 circles in a scene, just make a variable 10 + 1 for every circle that you spawn and -1 for every circle that gets deleted.

if you want to this with the cricles with cake only, you should do something like this.

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(e)=>{e.other.DrawCake == true ? {scene.my.count = scene.my.count + 1} : {}}

(not sure if this works, haven't tested it )

EDIT : tried it and it doesn't work. never knew it didn't work with true and false. Controlleracc is better solution.

[Chronos]

That wouldn't work. If the same circle hits it twice, it'll count as two instead of one. You could fix it by turning off the circle cake after it collides, though.

[Mystery]

Your code doesn't work.

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{e.other.controlleracc == 11} ? {
        scene.my.count = scene.my.count + 1;
        e.other.controlleracc = e.other.controlleracc = 12
    } : {}

Seems to be a bug with drawcake.

[Chronos]

Is drawcake a readable variable?

[Mystery]

It is readable i think there is a funny way to read bool (True / false) variables. Either that or its a bug.

[Chronos]

Actually, I just noticed he used = instead of ==.

[Mystery]

With Bool i think you use =
== doesn't work anyway.

[Rideg]

well I'm doing some Genetic research and want to see how many boys, girls and how big the entire population is...

[Mystery]

entire population for what? another evolution sim?

If it is another evolution sim the best way to count is by adding 1 to scene.my.countboys every time a boy is born and taking 1 every time a boy dies.

Same goes with girls scene.my.countgirls.

scene.my.countboys + scene.my.girls = entire population

[TimTheOne]

Ah, i see that i made a mistake in my code with the =, it should indeed be ==.
i never tried an if statement with a true or false, but i guessed it would work. clearly it doesn't.
so ignore that part of my post ^-^.

The best way to do it would prolly indeed be to use controlleracc.

[Rideg]

entire population for what? another evolution sim?

If it is another evolution sim the best way to count is by adding 1 to scene.my.countboys every time a boy is born and taking 1 every time a boy dies.

Same goes with girls scene.my.countgirls.

scene.my.countboys + scene.my.girls = entire population

thank you Mystery. Btw, sounded like the evulotion simulations ain't so popular.

[Mystery]

Its just that there are already a heap of them.

[Rideg]

Yeah but I hope you think mine is special. It works perfectly and have a realistic evolution and I so many ideas to put to this project.
I hope it will be special for you, though it's quite fun to watch them multiplyand evolve