Castle Paradox

[RedMaverickZero]

I'm trying to make a script which looks to see if the player has a certain spell, if not they check for the next hero, if none of them have it, then it goes to the else command. However, when I tested this script, it showed the else command when some of the heroes (1/3 or 2/3) had the spell. And the (show text box(167)) only showed up when all three heroes knew the spell. If I could get some help on how to get this to work, I'd be very appreciative.

script, candylesson,begin
suspend player
(
if(knows spell (hero:Mark,atk:Fireball)) then, (show text box (167))

if(knows spell (hero:Stephen, atk:Fireball)) then, (show text box (167))

if(knows spell (hero:Todd, atk:Fireball)) then, (show text box (167))

else (show text box (164))
)

resume player
end

[Mr B]

The "else" is logically attached ONLY to the immediately preceding "if" statement.

So what I expect is happening is that text 164 is shown whenever Todd doesn't know Fireball. Is that right?

Hmm...there are a couple of ways around this.

The hack way would be to always show textbox 164 at the beginning of the script. Since textboxes are only truly displayed at the next "wait" statement, it will be immediately replaced by textbox 167 if any of the heroes knows Fireball. Problem: if textbox 164 does anything besides showing text (starts a script, calls another textbox, etc.), this method will fail, probably spectacularly.

A slightly preferable method would be to have a bunch of nested "if-else" statements -- since it only matters that one of the heroes knows the spell (it doesn't matter which hero), you could get away with this.

Personally, I would create a variable that holds the number of the textbox to be shown. I would give it the default value of 164, then change it if any of the heroes knows Fireball. After all of the logical tests, I would use "show textbox()" and pass it that variable.

It would look something like this:

[Iblis]

You could just reorganize it like this, all into one if statement.

[RedMaverickZero]

Thanks a lot you guys. Even though I used Iblis', I still learned a thing or two from Mr.B's. You guys will be referenced in my readme file for helping me out.