Castle Paradox

Minnek · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 7:50 am Post subject:

Actually, that was *Worthy* you were speaking of Flamer, but I do have a battle system of my own that resembles OHR Tactics, that has thousands of lines of code (thanks to the custom menu [surprise] that I have in there that lets you change classes for the four characters in the battle. Ask LeRoy about it, he saw the beginnings of it

RPGExcel Tactics, we were GOING to call it, but I'm still deciding if it shouldn't just be something else. We had a really spiffy title screen, too... oops, going off topic.) Right, well anyway if anyone has any questions about making custom menus and battles and stuff, I think you guys know who to ask (which isn't just referring to myself, of course. Plenty of people here to ask, quit lookin' at me! Though I'm happy to help

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Sephyroth · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 9:29 am Post subject:

I am in awe of people who plotscript their own battle systems.. Oookay...

The farthest I ever got in something like that was less than 1000 lines, and then I got so confused that I gave up. Still, it's worth the experience to try to program your own system...
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*Worthy* · **Critical Thinker** Joined: 11 Aug 2003 Posts: 186

Before creating my battle system, I had never fully appreciated the importance of giving each variable a good name. Correctly naming variables can make life a whole lot easier when trying to create a very large script. That was one problem I encountered when I first started. I used abbreviations too frequently and it got to the point that I had no idea what variable meant what.

After about 3000 lines in, I decided to change the name of all of my global variables. Imagine going through 3000 lines and finding and changing all of your global variables (you'de be amazed how many are needed to make a battle system)...

~Worthy
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Minnek · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 12:04 pm Post subject:

I can't agree with you more, Worthy. What a pain it must have been sifting through all that code looking for variables, oi. Luckily I've not had to do that yet, and I'm hoping I never will Oookay...

Gah, what a pain.
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Sephyroth · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 12:07 pm Post subject:

I'd think you'd use the global #s more than names in scripting battle systems...
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Minnek · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:03 pm Post subject:

Well it depends, Sephy. I use them as a fake array when dealing with monster HP, MP, and stats, but have ones I named for the heros, since you always have the same four (except they change class.) Then there're the other variables in the system you need that you have need of understandable names.
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Iblis · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 3:20 pm Post subject:

Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

Oh man...bad memories...

Tags...all written down...but all shifted off by +1...700 lines...AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Ok so 700 isn't that much, but this is the same day I WROTE all of them, so I was pretty tired.

For the record, something I'd like to see in the next OHR update would be a built in compliler. I think I'll go post that right now.
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