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mack2404 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

I'm a newbie to plotscripting, and i read the tutorial. It said it would explain a HSI script. It didn't, so could someone please help me with one?
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Iblis · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:19 am Post subject:

A .hsi file isn't a script, it's a list of constants. A constant is like a variable, in that it has a name and represents a number, but as you might guess from their names, a constant's value doesn't change.

In the .hsi file are constants specific to your game, like the names of heroes and items and such. So if, in your game, hero 1 is named "Joe," your .hsi file will contain a constant named "hero:joe" and it will have a value of 1. This is mainly to make plotscripts easier to read. So you could have a line that says:

Add hero (hero:joe)

instead of

Add hero (1)

For most people, the former is simpler and clearer.

To use .hsi files, you first have to export them from your game. So you go into custom, go to "Script Management," and then go to "export names for plotscripts (.hsi)." That will make a .hsi file for that game. It won't do this automatically though, so if you add anything that has a name (items, attacks, heroes, songs, etc...), or rename something, or delete something, you'll want to do this again so your .hsi file will be up-to-date. To use these constants in your plotscripts, you need this line at the beginning:

include, gamename.hsi

Where gamename is whatever your game's filename is.

If this is confusing, well, it's not really all that important, so you probably don't need to worry about it. "Add hero (1)" works just as well as "Add Hero (hero:joe)" does. I don't tend to use these constants myself, but I know they're useful to some people. It doesn't change how your script works, just how it looks.
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mack2404 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

Ok thanks. I've had OHRRPGCE for about a week now, and thought it was time to plot-script.
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mack2404 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

Ok, so I've made a script which displays some legal info. i added another script to my hss file, it compiled, but when i tried to import it into my game, it only imported my "legal" script. so i made a separate hss script, and that wouldn't compile to a hs file, so i couldn't import it.

So would some kind, generous person out there PLEASE help me out? I'm a flash/java/c++/html programmer, and it annoys me that I can't use something as simple as this!
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Jack · **the fool** Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 773

post the script so we can see what's wrong first.
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Mike Caron · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject:

First off, I'll assume we have the same definition of script, namely a chunk of text that looks something like this:

mack2404 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

I don't think that's it. the script compiles (i know cos i used print screen to capture the hspeak window during compilation and read the text). I just want to know why it doesn't create a .HS file for me.

But thanks for the link. I'll try it
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mack2404 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

The script:

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

I'm going to throw out the same suggestion I made to 'Mike' (not 'Mike Caron'): make sure that your .hs file is not read-only, or else the computer will not allow it to get rewritten by your newly compiled .hss file. Also, I should recommend that if you use the command 'suspend player' in your script, the command 'resume player' should also exist somewhere in that script. 'Suspend player' does not go away when the script ends; you have to end it yourself with 'resume player'.

Are you sure that this script is saving and compiling correctly? I don't think that your 'give item' commands should work like that. If you have items from you game called "Sword", "Rod", etc. you need to refer to them as 'item:Sword', 'item:Rod' in your script.

Mike Caron · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject:

Yeahhh... that script is almost certainly wrong.

Constants in "soh.hsi" are in the form "item:whatever" or "song:whatever". Thusly, I'm almost positive I'm right. If the output never says "writing output file whatever.HS", then it did not compile properly, and there is an error near by.
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mack2404 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 7

that might be why then, if (item:name) is needed, not just (item)

many thanks to both of you!
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Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:16 am Post subject:

Hey, I know this may sound lame or something, but use this tool: http://hamsterrepublic.com/dl/hssed.zip

It will help you track down errors. Plus it lets you compile the scripts as you make them, no need to switch between the editor and compiler. It also has a built in help(for plotscript commands).
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