Basic Counter OnAttack

[RedHairedHero]

Hello,

I'm attempting to create a basic counter when the user attacks a creature, however it seems to not go up at all. The current function is...

local function onattack(inst)

local counter = 0

counter = counter + 1

return counter

end

I know it's setting it to 0 every time the onattack happens so there's something wrong with the return, any help would be appreciated.

[Lumina]

Maybe put the counter outside of "onattack" because everytime you'll attack it'll be reset to 0 ? Sorry if it's stupid, i'm not sure about what return is supposed to do.

[RedHairedHero]

6 hours ago, Lumina said:

Maybe put the counter outside of "onattack" because everytime you'll attack it'll be reset to 0 ? Sorry if it's stupid, i'm not sure about what return is supposed to do.

Hmm I could give that a try, perhaps putting the counter = counter + 1 inside the onattack and the counter = 0 somewhere else. I'm honestly not sure about return either, I thought it would just return the result for counter so it would loop.

Edit: That did the trick counter = 0 is added outside of the onattack function and counter = counter + 1 is added to the onattack function, return counter was not needed to achieve this. Thanks for the input, it's always the simple answer that gets me.

Edited February 12, 2017 by RedHairedHero