Castle Paradox

ShakeyAir · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 93

offtopic maybe a little bit, but why don't we have proper arrays in plotscripting?

Bagne · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject:

Okay, so what's happening when I swap a hero out, and the guy behind him gets bumped up in the caterpillar?

I've done a few experiments and come to the conclusion that bumped hero didn't change slots - the only thing that changed was his sprite location.

I have a vague memory of a bitset that disabled this ... but maybe my memory likes to make stuff up?

MAN.
These scripts are hard!

Yeah, I'm asking all these questions because I'm doing this:
I'm trying to create a system where the player can define and switch between groups of heros.
There's three important functions to this system:

1) Split:
Whenever the player has more than one hero in the active party, the player can "split" the party, which causes the caterpillar's tail to bud into a new group, while the leader remains in the active group.

2) Join:
If the active group contains less than 4 heros, the player can speak with the inactive heros (actually NPCs) to absorb them into the active group.

3) Cycle:
At any time, the player can cycle control between any existing group.

I'm writing the scripts to handle up to 12 heros, although I'm more likely to get something like 8.

There's so many details to figure out! Maybe another day, and It will work ... ha! Maybe that's naive of me.
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Moogle1 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject:

Rank in caterpillar is different from hero slot. The caterpillar will never have gaps.
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msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

http://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/wiki/ohrrpgce/index.php/Ways_to_refer_to_a_hero_in_a_script

Check that link for hopefully some clarification. In short, there are three ways to refer to a hero.

(1)ID number is basically the hero's name, and corresponds to the hero:NAME constants in the hsi file. These are used in commands rarely because of the need to allow the player to have multiple heroes with the same ID (like enlisting four Fighters in Final Fantasy 1, say - it wouldn't do to refer them all by the name 'Fighter').

(2)Party Slot is basically the hero's address in the player's party. Only slots 0-3 are considered 'active', but Party Slot doesn't care whether the hero is active or not. It also does not care if there are empty slots in front of the hero in question - if slots 0 and 1 are empty, and Bob is in slot 2, he may be considered in 'front of the line' but he is still in slot 2.

(3)rank in Caterpillar is the hero's rank if empty slots are NOT counted. In the previous example, Bob may be in slot 2, but since he is at the 'front of the line' his rank is considered 0 (first is zero, second is 1, and so on). Since the cateripllar only ever shows the active party, the only ranks that matter are 0-3.
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TMC · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:58 pm Post subject:

(Edit: msw beat me to it. Also, wow, I never noticed that Jameswrote that article, and recently too!)

Yes, portions of the dictionary are really bad. I'm pretty sure the documentation for most of those commands is still the same as it was 10 years ago (10th anniversary of plotscripting is the 9th of November! Let's have a party!) All of those commands need to be changed to something like "who is a [party slot (link)] specifying...". Unfortunately, I don't know if this is even possible for our xml file format (I'll have a look now)

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:17 am Post subject:

Bagne · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject:

Um,
is there a way of wrapping the "team order" thing on the menu?

It can either show the "special screen" or execute a script.
Is there a script command that calls the special screen?

EDIT: I'm looking at the menu commands ... I can't seem to find one which forces the player to "pick" a particular item.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

Bagne · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject:

I must be doing something wrong ...

The first script is from my split script.

When you split your party into two groups, some NPCs are created in place of the heros that were split into the non-active group.

I'm trying to create NPCs, and store their references.

When you speak with the NPC, the 2nd script is triggered, and the NPC should disappear ... that is, I destroy them using their reference #.

Verily, they refuse!
O Why???
Why me?

EDIT: Oh, by the way, I'm storing the NPC references in pseudo arrays using global variables.

Baconlabs · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject:

The growing size of this thread never ceases to amaze me.

Bagne · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject:

It's because I ask any question that pops into my head.
I'd start a new thread, but they're all vaguely related to the last ...

Baby Sloths!
Awwww .... aren't they cute?
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Moogle1 · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject:

Bagne · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:22 pm Post subject:

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
They diiiieeeee!

Thank you a thousand.
That worked magnificently.

Erm ... sorry, another question :-S
Is there any documentation of debug mode?
It would be cool if I could observe values of certain state variables.
(See? I really am trying to solve my own problems!!)

I'm mostly interested in global variables that I have defined...

All I'm using so far is "Show value", and it only shows one value at a time...
If there isn't another way, I might have to make a debug script or something.

I'm lovin' these baby sloths.
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