Castle Paradox

[Mike Caron]

http://ohr.finalfantasyq.com/index.php?section=13

If you download the 20050529 WIP build, you'll find that it contains a special feature, hot off the compiler: Strings!

draknight2 [a t] wmconnect [d o t] com (who may or may not be on this forum) finished his extensive set of string commands, and I added a few in for good measure. There's no docs for them yet, and no compiler support just yet (no "this is a string"), but they're still very cool.

Here's an excerpt from whatsnew.txt:

[tt]* Strings! Specifically:

* New commands: show string(string ID), clear string(string ID),
append ascii(string ID, ascii code), append number(string ID,
number), copy string(source string, dest string), concatenate
strings(source string, dest string), string length(string ID),
replace char(string ID, position, ascii), delete char(string ID,
position), ascii from string(string ID, position), string to
globals(string ID, starting global, length), globals to string(
string ID, starting global, length). BIG HUGE thanks to Yuriy
(Draknight2@wmconnect.com)

* More string commands: get hero name(string, hero), set hero name(
string, hero), get item name(string, item), get map name(string,
map), get attack name(string, attack), get global string(string,
global), thanks to Mike Caron

* ${S#} meta-string for text boxes.[/tt]

The commands are fairly self-explanitory, but here's some info that isn't:

~ There are 32 string buffers, numbered 0 to 31.
~ They start out empty ("")
~ The basic way to add to a string is with a series of add ascii() commands:

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

Nice. And by the way, draknight2 is my user name in mother hamster.
I finished it all in couple of days, would have done it even earlier, except that I didn't get a chance to download the code, but now I got it, so no problem.
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[Mike Caron]

Ah, ok. Makes sense. Yuriy, Ysoft...
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[Mr B]

These are all very lovely.

Do you anticipate permitting the modification of item and enemy strings, or is that not feasible for the OHR engine?

Do the "globals to string" commands put the numbers into the string, or the ASCII values associated with those numbers into the string?

[Mike Caron]

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

once pkmnfreak does the enemy modification command, I will see if I can get the door editing command, since I think it is very possible.
and I supppose you can also do more than edit enemy's name, you can go as far as editing their entire stats with a single command.
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[JSH357]

These new features are cool and all, but when are we going to see something that actually improves standard OHR games? (ex. making the battles more customizable)

This isn't C++, it's an RPG maker. Strings are great, but I'd rather be able to change the exp and level up formulas any day.

[Rimudora]

[JSH357]

I know it can be done, and I've done it myself before, but most OHR users aren't programmers/have little to no experience in that area. The strength of the program is in its ease-of-use in relation to building RPGs, so I think that variations should be implemented rather than telling the users to "plotscript their own system."

(And nobody--except possibly the programmers--cares how much easier it is to program. Besides, if it's so easy, why wasn't it done first?)

[The Wobbler]

[Mike Caron]

... it's coming... I swear...
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