Castle Paradox

[Laven Atries]

In my game, I'm trying to make and NPC that, when you talk to him once, he'll say text62, and then text63. talk to him again and he says text62 then text65. talk again and text62 then text 67. again and text62 then text69. talk again and text62 and text71. At this point I want it to do text62 then text71 for the next 6 times you talk to him. At that point it goes text62, text71,text72,text71,text73,text74,text75. Now if you talk to him he says text78. That's the idea, and I know it probably seems complicated. When I thought of it, it certainly seemed like it would be easy to do, but that's when I remembered how little I know about how this thing works. Anyway, here's the script I've got, but it simply skips straight to text78.

include, plotscr.hsd
include, 2KNIGHTS.HSI

global variable (1,oldmanc)

DEFINE SCRIPT (4,oldman,none)
script, oldman, begin
if (checktag(15=off))
then(
show text box (62)
wait for text box
show text box (63)
set tag(15,on)
)
else(
if (checktag(16=off))
then(
show text box (62)
wait for text box
show text box (65)
set tag(16,on)
)
)
else(
if (checktag(17=off))
then(
show text box (62)
wait for text box
show text box (67)
set tag(17,on)
)
)
else(
if (checktag(18=off))
then(
show text box (62)
wait for text box
show text box (69)
set tag(18,on)
)
)
else(
if (checktag(19=off))
then(
show text box (62)
wait for text box
show text box (71)
set tag(19,on)
)
)
else(
if (checktag(20=off))
then(
while (oldmanc << 7)
do(
show text box (62)
wait for text box
show text box (71)
wait for text box
oldmanc==oldmanc+1
)
show text box (72)
wait for text box
show text box (71)
wait for text box
show text box (73)
wait for text box
show text box (74)
wait for text box
show text box (75)
set tag(20,on)
)
)
else(
show text box (78)
)
end



so, can anyone tell me what I can do to fix it? I'd greatly appreciate whatever help you can offer.

-Laven Atries
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Oro?

[Uncommon]

Have you checked the NPC? Are you certain it runs the script and not a textbox (particularly, 11)? Make sure of that, and make sure you don't have any in-game textbox links. There is no reason why it should trigger "text11", unless the NPC is set so that it does.

Regarding the script, I saw some problems here:

if (checktag(20=off))
then(
while (oldmanc << 7)
do(
show text box (62)
wait for text box
show text box (71)
wait for text box
oldmanc==oldmanc+1
)

You would probably run into some problems with that script, especially the "while" loop (since the "while" loop loops until its arguments are fulfilled, thus repeating the textbox infinitely, due to an important problem in your script). A better version for that would be this (I wrote it in my own format, just because it's easier for me that way):

if (checktag(20=off))
then,begin
if (oldmanc << 7)
then,begin
show text box (62)
wait for text box
show text box (71)
wait for text box
oldmanc:=oldmanc+1
end
end

Typing "oldmanc==olmanc+1" will not increment the variable by one, but rather would check to see if it was itself plus one (which would obviously return false). A setvariable command would be best used for this, though many people use its shortcut, ":=". I usually don't, but I firgured I should note that typo. The "while" loop just wouldn't work for this, as it would simply show those two textboxes six times without pause. An "if, then" would work much better.

Well, that's all that I noticed. I hope you can get this to work!

[Blazes Battles Inc.]

Also, remember that 'check tag (# == off)' will not work. It has to be 'check tag (#) == off'.
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Preserve OHR history! Do it for the children!

[Uncommon]

Right, I missed that one... If I could run that script through HSPEAK, I could tell you anything that's wrong with it...