Castle Paradox

[Bobert-Rob]

Alright, so I'm figuring out this slice stuff... slowly. I see you can use text with them? Like showing text.

See, what I'm thinking is... there are a lot of spots in my game where you'll get an item from a once only NPC. There's no textbox to show you what item you got, so the player has to dig through the items and figure out what they got. I'd really rather not write out the textboxes for each item. There's well over 200 items and that'd be lengthy. Not only the writing, but assigning each one to each NPC...

So I'm wondering if it's possible to be able to do this automatically with slices? Like, what code I'd use to get whatever item an NPC gives you (you know, when you set an NPC to give you an item on the map screen) and have the plotscript set the slice to show this over an empty textbox. That way I'd be able to just go through and assign the plotscript to each NPC and the script would take care of notifying the player they got whatever item they got. Take care of it all with a single script, y'know? Is this possible?

[JSH357]

You want to use Strings, which I am assuming you know how to use in other languages?

Here's some documentation on getting started there:
http://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/wiki/ohrrpgce/index.php/Strings

I would just make a generic start for the string like "You got a " and then figure out the item name and concatenate it to the end. Then, when you are in the text box editor, you can call String x with ${Sx}. (You can see the other options in the text box editor too)

[Bob the Hamster]

This reminds me that I should implement the request in '' . bug_title('331') . ''

[Moogle1]

The easiest way currently is to have a script something like this:

[Bobert-Rob]

Ah, so I'd just throw the item number in the script argument. A little more work than I figured, but all in all, the quickest solution available. And it works! So yay!

[TMC]