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TwinHamster
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 Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, working on using the npc extra's and thought I finally had it.
Apparently not 
The first part does as it says to set the healths of the enemies.
However, afterwards all of them have 'extra 1' set to True, for some reason. It is usually only true when they're on the screen.
This results in quite a few enemies moving before they're supposed to.
However, after adding that little bit at the end, "set npc extra (npc, extra 1, false) ", to let the main loop assign the 'extra 1' data as intended, all of the enemies had their healths turned to '1'.
| Code: | plotscript, enemy health start, begin
# Iterate through all enemy NPCs and give them their max health
variable(i, j, npc, count)
for (i, first enemy id, last enemy id) do (
count := npc copy count(i) -- 1 # count goes from 0..n-1
for (j, 0, count) do (
npc := npc reference(i, j)
if(i==0)
then(
set npc extra (npc, extra 3, Health:Goomba)
)
if(i==1)
then(
set npc extra (npc, extra 3, Health:Batter)
)
#set npc extra (npc, extra 1, false)
)
)
end |
This script is activated as each map's autorun.
Health:Goomba and Health:Batter are defined as constants. |
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Are you using the latest nightly for GAME? Bad things will happen if you're using a more recent Hspeak than you are GAME.
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Moogle1 wrote: | | Are you using the latest nightly for GAME? Bad things will happen if you're using a more recent Hspeak than you are GAME. |
Lesson learned :O |
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know how you thought that would work, but..!
You should also use the latest CUSTOM for good measure.
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TMC
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:54 am Post subject: |
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We've got to add version info to plotscr.hsd, include it in the .HS header, and make both Game and HSpeak check it.
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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So I've been playing around with an enemy that's a container holding a medium-enemy-sprite and he animates just fine.
However, I can't seem to get rid of slice after I'm done with him.
After the enemy runs out of health, I use:
| Code: | | free slice (holder) |
Where holder is a global variable previously defined as:
| Code: | | holder := create container(50,50) |
After getting the enemy below 1 health, the game closes.
G_debug.txt gives me a bunch of:
| Code: | | get sprite set number: slice handle 2 has already been deleted |
I can post the entire script if it's necessary.
Thanks |
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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If GAME is crashing hard like you say, that's an engine bug
Why are you using a container, out of curiosity? There's no reason to do it unless you're containing multiple slices inside it.
There doesn't seem to be a "slice exists" function, but you might try changing this
| Code: | | free slice (holder) |
to this
| Code: | if (holder <> 0) then (
free slice (holder)
holder := 0
) |
Still, I'd expect better error handling
As an aside, using a single variable will get you into trouble if multiple copies of that enemy can possibly appear onscreen simultaneously. You might consider using an NPC extra to store the slice handle instead.
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Moogle1 wrote: | If GAME is crashing hard like you say, that's an engine bug
Why are you using a container, out of curiosity? There's no reason to do it unless you're containing multiple slices inside it.
There doesn't seem to be a "slice exists" function, but you might try changing this
| Code: | | free slice (holder) |
to this
| Code: | if (holder <> 0) then (
free slice (holder)
holder := 0
) |
Still, I'd expect better error handling
As an aside, using a single variable will get you into trouble if multiple copies of that enemy can possibly appear onscreen simultaneously. You might consider using an NPC extra to store the slice handle instead. |
Thanks for the fix, but the bug's still there
The enemy has multiple frames of animation, so I figured the frame would be the best way to reference all of them (the sprite is freed and a new frame is added for each animation)
He's a miniboss, so there should *hopefully* only be one at a single time. |
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Yikes, that's not a great way to do that.
Try replace medium enemy sprite rather than containing and showing/hiding.
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Moogle1 wrote: | | replace medium enemy sprite |
I hurried over to the dictionary to look at sprite functions and also found 'horiz flip sprite (handle, flip)' :O
I'm sold, but is there a way to check for a sprite's current position?
I can't seem to find it. |
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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slice x, slice y
Same with your container, unless you're doing it some fancypants way I don't know about. You'll want to subtract camera pixel x/y from your slice x/y, but I'm guessing you were already doing that.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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I just filed '' . bug_title('715') . ''
Twinhamster, before you go and work around this bug, can you send me a copy of the game with a sav right before the crashy boss?
Although the method you were using might be a little less efficient than using "replace medium sprite", it *definitely* should not have crashed like that.
| Moogle1 wrote: | slice x, slice y
Same with your container, unless you're doing it some fancypants way I don't know about. You'll want to subtract camera pixel x/y from your slice x/y, but I'm guessing you were already doing that. |
Or use "slice screen x" and "slice screen y"
EDIT: Oh, d'oh! I forgot that those commands are only minimally useful because attaching slices to map layers is not implemented yet! |
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Moogle1 wrote: | slice x, slice y
Same with your container, unless you're doing it some fancypants way I don't know about. You'll want to subtract camera pixel x/y from your slice x/y, but I'm guessing you were already doing that. |
Fantastic!
I didn't quite figure out that camera pixel bit, so I just had the battle take place in a map that took up a single screen.
| James wrote: | Twinhamster, before you go and work around this bug, can you send me a copy of the game with a sav right before the crashy boss?
Although the method you were using might be a little less efficient than using "replace medium sprite", it *definitely* should not have crashed like that. |
Sent you an e-mail, starting it straight from Game should get you to the right place.
Instructions inside. |
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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A game-freezing bug has appeared and I'm trying to read the script-debug, but can't quite interpret very well due to its outdated wiki page.
It looks like there's a bad 'wait for npc' somewhere, and that (-300) is kind of scary-look'n.
A little insight would be great. |
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TMC
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| Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:04 am Post subject: |
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Try pressing ctrl+11 while not in the script debugger to see which NPC has reference 300
The script debugger was never officially mentioned or documented because it's too hard to use, even with the documentation. It needs rewriting. There's too much information to cram in 320x200, it needs a pop out window.
The garbage at the bottom of the screen tells you exactly which waitfornpc command is being executed. You need to refer to your script to make sense of it. You can see that in processenemy switch(0) is being executed, containing a chain of if's, and it's the 4th out of 5 commands in a then() block.
Press v once or twice. This is usually far more helpful, you can see the values of local and global variables. Press + and - to scroll the globals.
Edit: Also, press page up/page down to select the script. I've updated the page with this meagre amount of documentation.
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