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Nintendork




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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:32 pm    Post subject: Save Hero Position? Reply with quote
Hey, I'm making a game called Bomberman x4, where you are supposed to use all four Bombermen one at a time (where your friends play as other Bombermen or you control them yourself). Anyways, since all four people would play on one file, I'm making a load game script where every time you enter the game, it goes to character selection. But here's the problem: I need to know if there is some kind of save hero position, so every time you enter the world with a certain Bomberman, you will be in the same position you were when the game was saved. Also, it's not that every individual Bomberman will start in the same place the last Bomberman was when the game was saved- I want it to save the position of all four Bombermen if that's possible. Is this possible, or am I thinking outside of OHR's boundaries? Question

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Mike Caron
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What you say is far from impossible, but it's not automatic either.

Code:
  global variable, begin
    1, hero 1 x
    2, hero 1 y
    3, hero 2 x
    #...
    8, hero 4 y
    9, current party # 0 - 3
  end

  script, switch parties, party, begin
    fade screen out

    write global(1 + current party * 2, hero x(me))
    write global(2 + current party * 2, hero y(me))

    current party:= party

    #again, swap heroes to the right party

    set hero position (me, read global(1 + current party * 2), read global(2 + current party * 2))

    fade screen in

  end


The globals 1-8 store the positions of the heroes. global 9 stores which party you're using currently.

switch parties() should be called when you want to swap to a different party. Pass the party number (0 - 3), and it will record your location, and switch.

A few notes:

~ These scripts don't handle actually switching the parties. As is, it will just warp a single party around. You need to modify it to swap heroes in and out, or however you're doing it.

~ At some point, before you can switch, you need to set the default locations of the other three parties (1-3), so that when you swap, you don't go to (0,0).

~ I just wrote this off the top of my head, so I haven't tested it.

~ If you already have globals, you'll need to change the numbers of the above declarations, and in the switch party() script. To switch, it looks something like this:

Code:

    #pretend the appropriate globals start at 30
    write global(30 + current party * 2, hero x(me))
    write global(31 + current party * 2, hero y(me))


And, in the block right below it.
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Nintendork




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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cool, thanks. I'll test it as soon as I need to and my hspeak works.
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Bob the Hamster
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nintendork wrote:
Really? Since the last time I rebooted windows, I have been extremely, extra cautious of spyware, and I thought a once-a-week scan would get be good enough. I'll try scanning for spyware, but so far there have been no other signs of spyware.


that post about the spyware belonged in this thread, sorry, I am clumsy :)

The reason I think it is related spyware is because it comes from the "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem" which certain spywares love to screw up. See this FAQ entry ... although your error message is different from those, so I could be totally wrong on this one.
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Nintendork




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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh, glad you cleared that up, I thought I posted in the wrong topic. Ha ha ha!

Anyway, let's keep the rest on this subject in the other topic from now on.
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