Castle Paradox

[Bobert-Rob]

Alright, so I'm messing around with having multiple inventories. Thankfully, all that is working already.

What I'm working on right now is an item exchange system, where you can exchange items between the separate inventories. I read in another thread that you could use shops for temporary item storage, so I figured it'd be the simplest way to do this. Sell items from inventory one, change what inventory you're using on screen two, go back to the shop and buy back the items for no money.
Well, the default sell type in a shop is "Normal". What I would need would be to add each item to the shop and set it to "Increment Inventory", and I've already got 200+ items in the game. The limit of shop items is 50, so I'm in a bit of a pinch.
I know I could probably do this menu in a plotscript, but it'd be awfully difficult to figure out how to display all that information, especially if I want it to depend on what items the player has currently and not have some static values showing all items by default. Otherwise I'd have to have a complex item tag system set up, and I currently have 500 tags being used, so I run into a snag there as well.

So, uh, I was curious if it'd be possible to add some kind of 'shop default' value for this sort of thing? So I could have one shop's sell type be 'Increment Inventory' by default so I could save the shop inventories for the items that absolutely need prices changed to 0 or whatever. If possible. Thanks for readin'!

[Bob the Hamster]

That method seems workabout for small inventories, but with 200 items? Ouch!

Default settings for items in shops is definitely a desirable feature, but I can't make any promises on how soon I will get to adding it, as there are so many other features to work on.

[Moogle1]

[chronoboy]

I think the shops in general need an overhaul, I wrote another thread a few moments ago with tons of details on what I'd like to see in shops-TNG(Yes Star Trek geekum there). One of the biggies would be controlling shop creating and modification from plotscripts.

[Bobert-Rob]

True, for some reason it didn't even occur to me to write the menu options dynamically in the script itself. As long as the menu can have 124 items (the max I set up for an individual inventory), then that would definitely be possible.

Is it possible to have two menus open at once? What I'm thinking is having two windows open, each showing one of the inventories during the exchange. That way, you can see what menu has what item and you can see the exchange take place. Each inventory takes up a half of the screen, you see. I would need to make it so the second inventory menu is inactive, though, and I'm not quite sure if that's possible. I suppose if I can't do that, maybe I could do this with a slice or something?

Also, I'm thinking of using pre-set up menus instead of making new ones so I can have one item menu per side of the screen. Is there a way to remove the menu items afterward? I would want each menu item to be written fresh each time the menu is opened (as I'm adding item count to the item titles as well, so they know how much they have of each item), but if I were to use up certain items from the regular inventory menu, the menu items made for those items wouldn't be removed when re-opening it later, I assume. Being able to clear out the custom menu items when it closes would be ideal (delete menu item doesn't allow me to target a menu though, just the item itself). I would just make a custom menu, but I worry about there being too many custom menus being made each time I open the menu if I'm not deleting them after I'm done with them, you know? I wouldn't imagine that being good. Unless I'm overlooking some key detail about making new menus via plotscripting...

[msw188]

When you close a menu, it doesn't remember what kinds of things you did to it the last time it was open. Just like with a map that won't remember whether you added or deleted NPCs from it last time you were on it.

In my multiple inventories for Tales 2, I had all of the inventories defined as empty menues in custom, and I populate them on the fly. Then anytime a change has occured, the menu closes (and if needed, reopens), and the populating script is re-run, allowing the menu to update itself.

It sounds like you already have some good ideas flowing about how to handle this, but if you want you can check the item-related scripts that I included in the Tales 2 download:
http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewgame.php?t=196&highlight=tales
The issue with mine is that I limit each inventory to 8, because I still use the OHR's battle system, and I make hero item menues in battle use levelMP, the only stat I could think of to make customized items work properly in battle. And levelMP only recognizes 8 rows. I don't know how you'll manage to do battles with what you're trying to do.
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