Points going above sprites heads.

I am wondering if there is a way to have points fly above sprites heads as I earn them, like in super mario world for the snes. I already have my game set up to add up my score in the HUD when I stomp critters but it would just be cool to see the numbers pop up like +1!

If anyone knows how this could be set up I would love to know about it! Thanks much! <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

You can make a text object and, each time you want to display points, create the text object at sprite.X and sprite.Y-(value) to put the points above your sprite. Set the value (100, 200, 300...) Then destroy the text object :)

If you want the text object move to make it more dynamic you can set the sine behavior on it.

This works with sprite instead of text object too.

Lowren beat me to it, here is the example I just made:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85412219/forumposts/FloatingScore.capx

It uses behaviors to make it float away, fade out, and destroy itself.

so you just spawn it and forget it. 1 event.

I made an example on the Arcade:

It's a function with only one event, and you can call it using any score value. You will need a custom font for it (I made one for the example) or you can change it a bit to just use text.

Thanks for all the help guys. Those examples especially helped a lot! <img src="smileys/smiley32.gif" border="0" align="middle" />