Castle Paradox

Omega0 · Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 37

When you save and load a game, what things are saved?
(i.e. are running plotscripts restored? are global variables restored?)
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RedMaverickZero · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject:

While playtesting one of my games I changed all the heroes attributes (looks) through scripting and then saved, so this means that running scripts similar to that are still in effect. But it also depends on the script. Like a movement tile, that would move ya normally, I'm pretty sure it still would. It also keeps track of NPC positions I believe.
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Aethereal · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:34 pm Post subject:

When you load a saved game, global variables are indeed restored. I'm not sure about plotscripts, but I think that if you were in the middle of a script it DOES continue, because there are some games that use constant plotscripts which pull up Save Game boxes that I think are called by a script. I could be wrong about that part, however. I am 100% sure that global variables are restored, though.
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RPGCreations · **E Pluribus Unum** Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 345

-hero positions
-npc positions
-all tags
-all global variables
-all useonlyonce npcs
-money
-exp to next level
- all battle stats
-the current position of the music track playing (then again, this might have been due to VDMS)
-etc

big things not saved yet
- vechicle positions (easily workarounded with a script)
- palette changes

that's all I can think of at the moment

-fyre
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Flamer · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 5:06 am Post subject:

scripts stop running... just like a program stops when you shut the computer down Big grin

didn't know bam can save position... i think it might have something to do with VDMS.

anyway, the main things are hard coded things, like the things listed by fyre.
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TMC · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

I didn't know that either, but I don't see how VDMS could have anything to do with restoring music state.

No scripts at all are restored, when you load a game the script buffer is completely blank. Thats what the load-game script is for Raspberry!

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