Yet another cry for help.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:35 pm

1/25/2013
Is there some way to make harm tiles unable to kill you?

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(Old problems not to be concerned about right now)
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I've been skimming the plotscripting dictionary for some time now, and here's what I need to know, as I can't find it:

I need a counter. As in, say each time you smite one of these "mystical dragons", you want to have the game add 1 to this counter, and with scripting using the counter to have this "mystical door" to tell you the number you've missed, or it opens upon defeating them all.

I'd like this counter for some ultimate goal of mine for my RPG that I've been working on for ...uh, quite some time. I think about ...wow, almost exactly two years ago.
And without getting too teary-eyed and reminiscent, yeah. Some global variable of some sort that can hold at least up to the hundreds in a number. The thousands would be dandy. I suppose I can spoiler tag what it'll be used for...if asked nicely, but first some help would be dandy. Of course, special mentioning will go to he who helps. Not really a bribe, but it just feels correct to mention all who help with this project.

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NEW PROLLEM! 5/29/12
With the slice editor, I can't seem to copy and paste slices, and I really REALLY don't want to piece all 46 current bestiary pages together bit by bit.
Any way that I can worm my way through the system? Though in-editor help states that "I can copy and paste using ctrl-c and ctrl-v", pasting seems to simply send me to the slice I "copied".

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:50 pm

You seemed to answer you own question, you just need to use a global variable. Each time you want to increase the counter you'd run a script that states INCREMENT(counter) and each time you want to decrease the counter (if you ever did) you'd script DECREMENT(counter). And then you' just need a script to check the counter's amount, like
If (counter>>1000) then (do cool stuff).

Post by **Mogri** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:41 pm

Global variables can hold numbers up to 2147483647. That's a lot of numbers!

Like Spoonweaver said, you just need to adjust the variable every time you do whatever it is. For example:

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include,plotscr.hsd

global variable&#40;1, dragons&#41;

plotscript, kill dragon, begin
  dragons &#58;= dragons + 1
  if &#40;dragons >= 100&#41; then &#40;
    # You killed at least 100 dragons!
    set tag&#40;10, on&#41;
  &#41;
end

Call the "kill dragon" script from within your game. Once you've called it 100 times, tag 10 will be set to true, and you can use that in your game like other tags.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Wed May 02, 2012 1:19 am

But is it possible to show the variable in a textbox? Because I'd like some to say "you've slain #variable_here of 7 dragons" so that the person will know at least of how many they've missed.

Even though dragons, truly, have nothing to do with what I'm using this for....mostly. It's just the example.

Master K · Post by **Master K** » Wed May 02, 2012 1:24 am

Because I'd like some to say "you've slain #variable_here of 7 dragons"

Text Code. You would put in a textbox "You've slain ${V#} of 7 Dragons."
The # would be the number of your global variable.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Wed May 02, 2012 2:19 am

I see, thanks all! I'll try putting this stuff together soon enough.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Wed May 30, 2012 12:41 am

NEW PROLLEM!

With the slice editor, I can't seem to copy and paste slices, and I really REALLY don't want to piece all 46 current bestiary pages together bit by bit.
Any way that I can worm my way through the system? Though in-editor help states that "I can copy and paste using ctrl-c and ctrl-v", pasting seems to simply send me to the slice I "copied".

HALP! -with love, Meowskivich

Post by **TMC** » Wed May 30, 2012 1:51 am

Are you sure about that? It can appear that that's what's happening when in fact it's working correctly, because the newly created slice looks identical to the old one. Especially confusing because there's no scroll bar in the slice editor, so you might not notice the list of slices getting longer as you add copies.

(Incidentally, I've just discovered a rare crash when copy-pasting slices, but can't seem to reproduce it)

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Wed May 30, 2012 9:47 am

No, I mean the editor sends me straight to the slice I "copied", as stated above. It's like it's also copying the slice collection's name and pasting it, thus only replacing the one I copied with....the one....I....copied...

As you could imagine is highly useful (sarcasm).

Post by **TMC** » Wed May 30, 2012 12:29 pm

Does copying and pasting work elsewhere? What version are you using?

But, thanks, "copying the slice collection's name" turned out to be the explanation of the crash I saw! I hit Ctrl+C while the "<Slice>" line was selected. I realised what was up when happening upon the cryptic (and therefore important!) code comment

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    jump_to_collection = ses.collection_number
    IF intgrabber&#40;jump_to_collection, 0, 32767, , , , NO&#41; THEN  'Disable copy/pasting

This is why source comments are a good thing :P

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Wed May 30, 2012 12:35 pm

Well, I don't use nightlies, so I use Zenzizenzic.
And copying works pretty much anywhere else with no trouble really.

And...um, I'm glad I could....help???

Post by **TMC** » Wed May 30, 2012 1:56 pm

OK. You're hitting Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on the "Slice Collection #" line, just as I did. In Zenzizenzic this causes the slice ID to be copied and pasted rather than a slice! In nightlies, this is fixed.

CASE CLOSED!

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Wed May 30, 2012 2:11 pm

Grand....so when is the next OHRRPGCE coming out so I can get this fix?

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Wed May 30, 2012 2:31 pm

Meowskivich wrote:Grand....so when is the next OHRRPGCE coming out so I can get this fix?

Or you can use a nightly build. We are very close to the next stable release, so as long as you are not using a Mac, the nightlies are pretty much just as stable as the stable release.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Wed May 30, 2012 3:08 pm

I kinda don't really want to use nightlies, that's kinda the thing here :/

But if the next build is to be due soon enough, then I can wait, I guess.