Castle Paradox

PK-Gamer · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:35 am Post subject: Need help on a couple of things

Hi all,

Two things I need assistance in. Is there a way to skip wait time in a script? For example, I have scripts that have dialogue in which the player must wait a couple of ticks for the next box to appear. Is there a way for the player to skip the wait time or skip a cutscene that will activate the flags that are in the script?

Also, is there a way to change the positions of the shop boxes? I want to move the boxes that have the player's current money and how much an item cost for the player so that it would be easier for the player to know how much they have and how much they need to pay for an item.

Bob the Hamster

Welcome PK-Gamer!

Out of curiosity, what does the PK stand for? We used to have a PK-Fortis around here, but I can't remember what his PK stood for :)

PK-Gamer · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 1:59 pm Post subject:

Hi Bob,

The PK in my name is related to EarthBound Zero if you played it (PK-Fire, PK-Freeze, PK-Thunder).

Also, thank you for responding to my question. Yes, I would like the user to press a button to fast forward through a cutscene and skip a cutscene with tags being activated after the cutscene finishes.

TMC · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:59 am Post subject:

I believe the PK in PK-Fortis' username were the initials of a nickname he'd previously used.

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Skipping the rest of a script unfortunately isn't entirely straightforward. If you only use "wait" commands and don't move the heroes or NPCs, then it's fairly easy though. Let's say that you want the rest of the scene to be skipped when the player presses esc, enter, or space. First, add a global variable to indicate the scene is being skipped.

PK-Gamer · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:33 am Post subject:

Thank you for your help, TMC.

However, when I try to compile my script. It gives me an error.

script, skippable wait, ticks, begin

script skippablewait has 1 arguments named, but has 0 arguments in its
declaration.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:32 am Post subject:

You didn't add a "declare script" for it, did you? Declare script is obsolete and should not be used at all.

PK-Gamer · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:35 pm Post subject:

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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:00 pm Post subject:

Yes, sorry, I typed "declare" when I meant "define"

PK-Gamer, did you read an old tutorial somewhere that said to use "define script"? I thought I had found and updated all the tutorials on the wiki that used to use "define script"

PK-Gamer · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:00 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys!

Actually Bob, I got the "define scripts" from the scripts that came from the Vikings of Midgard game that comes with OHRRPGCE when I first used OHRRPGCE.

TMC · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:35 pm Post subject:

Ugh! The scripts for Vikings are absolutely horrible and have misled many people. I would like to clean up the scripts and demand that Fenrir uses *our* version of them henceforth.

However, even if they were cleaned up they would not be a good example to learn from. They are simply too long and boring.
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PK-Gamer · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:12 am Post subject:

There's another problem I'm having now...

When I skip through a script that includes adding a new character and equipping an item to the character, it seems it give me an error about that the force equip event cannot work.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:15 am Post subject:

Can you post the script that has the problem?

PK-Gamer · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:50 pm Post subject:

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