What is wrong with this code?

[veko]

I have this simple accelleration code on my obj enemy.
He is suppossed to dash towards player and the slow down.
In my create event it sets 1 to alarm[0] and in alarm[0] it sets direction towards player and speed on 50 and resets it self to 500.
And this is what i have on step event for slowing down:
if speed = 50
{
for (i = 0; i < 20; i += 1)
{
speed -= 2.5;
}
}
It seems that this code is not working since it follows the player on speed 50 forever.
If somebody could help me out that would be great. Thank you!

 

[trebor777]

Read your code carefully out loud.
You're missing a little something
It's really simple!

http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/da...gml language overview/401_04_expressions.html

 

[veko]

Read your code carefully out loud.
You're missing a little something
It's really simple!

http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/001_gml language overview/401_04_expressions.html

But what?! Im sorry but i actually never had such a simple problem that i couldn't solve! I tried to go through the link you gave me but it seems that everything is in order.
Please help me
I tried doing this but it doesn't change anything!

if speed == 50
{
for (var i = 0; i < 20; i++;)
{
speed -= 2.5;
}
}

 

[Sabnock]

Take a look at the first line of code

 

[Sabnock]

Also you are using a for to loop in the step so all you would see is the object stop not slow down over time.

 

[Joe Ellis]

asking if its equal to 50 will only make the below code happen when its exactly 50, which it will only be for 1 frame then gradually reduce, so you need to ask if its more than 0, cus anything above 0 is still moving, also "for" loops are for making things happen more than once per frame, you need the object to only reduce speed once per frame, as you only see 1 frame at a time, so anything that happens in between frames will all join together and be displayed in the next frame

 

[Salvakiya]

may or may not help... depends on your code... but look up friction in the help docs.

if speed>10{friction =.5}else{friction=.1}