Castle Paradox

[Kizul Emeraldfire]

[Inferior Minion]

I don't think you understand what msw188 is referring to. You have three blocks of code:

• Red Handling (tag 15)
  
• Green Handling (tag 16)
  
• Blue Handling (tag 17)

Take this pseudo-code (meaning it's not valid code, but shows flow) for instance:

[Kizul Emeraldfire]

Okay, I think I see now. I think. I need to take a break from plotscripting, my head hurts.

[Kizul Emeraldfire]

Okay, I'm back again (and I edited the thread's subject so it's just a bit more relevant).

How would I use strings to display values such as Hero's Current HP/Hero's Maximum HP, Hero's Current MP/Hero's Max MP and the Days Spent/Hours Spent/Minutes Spent Playing stats the way this (faked) screenshot I made here has them (minus the little symbols, I know how to add those. :D)?



Actually, come to think of it — how do I get strings to display all of those except the map name (the <blank> Plains) and the little colored symbols. >.>;;

[msw188]

There are a few extra things to consider here. They all deal with alignment. For instance, how do you want HP and MP to be handled if the hero's current or max has less than five digits? I'm guessing that you still want the equipment aligned the same on the right, but how should the HP/MP display change? Should the slashes always be in the spot they are now, or should it look like:
1234/1324
22323/32222

or do you want it 'right aligned', etc.

Similar questions arise for the time. What if the days have less than three digits? Should the comma stay where it is now, or move over? Depending on your answers to these questions, I can see this being a considerable pain (unless I'm just not thinking of an easy way to get around these issues).

[Kizul Emeraldfire]

[Bob the Hamster]

[Kizul Emeraldfire]

Oh, I see now! It's only supposed to be ONE equals sign! That's why those never worked for me, I kept using two by mistake. XD

Now that I know this, this will be a lot easier. Thanks James! :D

Hmm, I've been messing with it a bit — I'm doing it one half at a time — and the HP, MP and location things work good, but the Time doesn't update like it should. I spent about three minutes in-game, and the minutes value just stayed at 0.

Also, is there a way to have a textbox stay shown without having to use NPCs to fake it?

Failing that, is there a way to suspend NPC walls and/or obstructions for only certain NPCs (that way I can have it look as if there's a textbox there, but it doesn't mess up the other NPCs or the hero or anything)?

[msw188]

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that the answer to both of those last two questions is "no". The only thing I can think of is to have to use the 'put NPC' command to allow pixel-based movement, which has no conception of walls. This sounds very messy. If you can find a color for the strings that allows them to stand out, it might be better to eliminate the box... or could this be accomplished with vehicle-NPCs???

[TMC]

Strings displayed on screen with showstringat always display their current state: changing the string will change what is displayed on screen.

Strings displayed with showstring and embedded in textboxes will only display their content at the moment showstring is called or the textbox is called.

However, your time string doesn't contain
"TIME: D: {days of play}, H: {hours of play}, M: {minutes of play}",
it contains "TIME: D: 0, H: 0, M: 0"
And it's going to contine to display that until you change it.

Future versions should have the ability to draw boxs and rectangles to let you fake textboxes, but if it is absolutely necessary to display a textbox and let the hero continue to move, your best bet is to script hero movement yourself. Obviously you won't be able to display 2 textboxes on screen at once. If you need to, I agree with msw, ditch the box.
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[Kizul Emeraldfire]

[TMC]

Oh, so you are calling showtime everytime you want the string to update (every so now and then or every tick/minute)? I don't see why daysofplay, etc, should not work.
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[Kizul Emeraldfire]

Huh, THAT'S what that problem was — I wasn't doing anything wrong in the Show Time script or any of the OTHER scripts — I just wasn't calling THOSE scripts enough in Show Stat Box: