Noobish questions, mostly about scripting

[flametard]

thank you for taking a look at my questions.

1: Is there a way to freeze a players movements? can i use cut sequences to freeze a player? can i make the cut sequense's camera determined by the location of the player instead of a particular coordinate on the island? could someone provide an example of a script that would allow this?

2: can the script increase or decrease a player's playervar rather than manually setting each number? if so, what would be the command for that?


ill think of more later... sorry have to go now

[zaroba]

for number 2:
$gPlayerVar#=$gPlayerVar# - / + #

As an example:

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Event( "OSDSelect", "b44o:b44osaled1000" )
	{
	$gPlayervar25=$gPlayervar25-1000
	if ($gPlayerVar25<0)
		{
		$gPlayerVar25=0
		}
	CustomEvent("b44osale")
	}

After clicking the OSD button to run the above script (it's part of setting a sale price for a building), the script lowers $gPlayerVar25 by 1000. It then checks to see if the value is 0 and resets it to 0 if it is (can't have buildings selling for negative prices, lol)

All other vars can be changed the same way as well

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Event( "OSDSelect", "b44o:b44oai1000" )
	{
	*grantcash %player% -1000
	$gBuildingVar6=$gBuildingVar6+1000
	CustomEvent("b44oinvest")
	}

[MasterNiCron]

(1) not shure

(2)

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$gPlayerVar[1] = $gPlayerVar[1]  + 1 (to add to player ver)
$gPlayerVar[1] = $gPlayerVar[1]  - 1 (to subtract from player ver)

the + # or - # can be what ever u need it to be

[Mit]

yes you can do all of 1) i think.. i'll get a sample together later tonight

[flametard]

question 3, can the script determine if a person's playervar is greater or less than a value? or do i have to program it to check for each possible playervar #?

ANSWERED!

example

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Event( "Custom", "example" ) 
{
If ( $playervar1 > 0 )
   {
   *msg %player%'s playervar1 is greater than 0.
   }
else
   {
   *msg %player%'s playervar1 is not greater than 0.
   }
}

[flametard]

question 4: buildingvar?! buildings can have var's too? is the building var the same for each player who accesses it, or does the building var change for one player only? im assuming the former.

[flametard]

question 5:

I would like to get the script to draw a random number between 1 and say... 5. and be able to set outcomes for each number. can someone provide an example of how I would do this?

ANSWERED


example:

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Event ("Useitem","Dice") 
   { 
   $myVar = sysRand(6) 
   If ( $myVar = 1 ) 
      { 
      *say %player% rolled a one. 
      } 
   else If ( $myVar = 2 ) 
      { 
      *say %player% rolled a two. 
      } 
   else If ( $myVar = 3 ) 
      { 
      *say %player% rolled a three. 
      } 
   Else If ( $myVar = 4 ) 
      { 
      *say %player% rolled a four. 
      } 
   else If ( $myVar = 5 ) 
      { 
      *say %player% rolled a five. 
      } 
   else 
      { 
      *say %player% rolled a six. 
      } 
   } 

[flametard]

question 6:

say at the end of an event script, I'd like it to automatically start a different event script, is that possible?

ANSWERED

example

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Event( "Custom", "first" ) 
{
*msg %player% check one
CustomEvent("checktwo")
}

Event( "Custom", "checktwo" )
{
*msg %player% check two.
} 

[flametard]

question 7:

what is the event called when a player clicks on another player's name when theyre close enough to barter/ challenge? can someone provide me an example for that script?

ANSWERED

example

to reset the button name, type into your world's chatbox, something like:
*scriptedoption 4, Follow

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Event( "MenuOption", "4" ) 
{
*msg %player% you have become a follower of %target%.
*msg %target% %player% has chosen to become your follower.
*setfollowerid %player% $gTargetID
}

[morbydvisns]

3: if ($playervar1 < 3)
{
}

4: each building has its own set of vars, up to 16 i think, and it's building specific, will be the same for each player. Tho they are specific to each building instance.

5: $var = SysRand(5) i BELIEVE is what it is now.... and the 5 would be the random number max value..... ie. pickes a number from 0 to 5.


6: There are a couple ways to do this, depending on the type of script event you are working with.... custom even script, or building/osd style. I don't really have the time to outline all that now.

7: This is not scripted, as far as I'm aware. It's hardcoded to the GUI.

[Mit]

Make sure to read through the scripting overview and reference pages at http://theuniversal.net/worldmanual for details of many of the functions and processes involved in the new scripting systems.

coupla wee corrections and additions..

4) You assumption and Morb's answer are correct except that there are now 128 gBuildingVars per building (and 32 gBuildingTimeVars).

5) $var = sysRand(5) actually returns a value from 1 to 5, not 0 to 5.

6) You can trigger a separate event using the 'CustomEvent' function, or by using *event [NAME] [Event_name] or *eventallonline [Event_name].. with the latter triggering the event for everyone currently connected to your world.
You can also add and call your own functions (which gives you the options to pass parameters to the function and return values from it). Using functions is often vital for any complex scripting.
For details on all these things, check out the scripting section in the worldmanual :
http://theuniversal.net/worldmanual/dok ... s_overview

7) These do call an event through which you can intercept the normal GUI behaviour.
When someone selects someone else to barter with the 'BarterRequest' event is triggered. When they select challenge the 'InitChallenge' event is triggered. Once accepted the client handles the GUI for the standard challenges etc, but in both cases they can be interrupted with the 'CancelTransaction()' command.
So if you wanted to implement your own barter system you'd script something like..

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Event( "BarterRequest", "" )
{
   // Cancel the standard barter system
   CancelTransaction()

   // Trigger events for both players to do your own thang
   *event %PLAYER% MyCustomBarterOSD
   *event %TARGET% MyCustomBarterTargetOSD
}

Its on the list to add a configurable option to the player targetting menu so you can add a button with a custom name and receive an event when its used.

[zaroba]

mit, are Functions basically just snippits of script that any script can call to to get something done or get info as a method of consolidating things that would otherwise be repeated several times in a script?

If so, then I'm guessing the script that calls it doesn't get stopped at all and one could have, for example, 4 different scripts calling the same function and nothing would get confused, right?

[Mit]

yup.
(Theres only ever one bit of script running at a time, so 4 different scripts each in turn calling the same function makes no difference).

[flametard]

thank you very much, I'm armed with stuff to read and test, now.

kept bartering, my 3 ideas so far are:
pickpocketing:
I did it

casting spells:
changed it to the follow button

intimacy and procreation:
did it.

again, thanks for the information, thank you again.

[flametard]

q 8:
which vehicle control setting # is that handy dandy left click to move on?

[Mit]

27

[morbydvisns]

So I was close Been some pretty hectic times over here recently, little bit of rust has built up =)

[zaroba]

a little? lol

didn't I see you in the hardware store buying a few cases of oil, a case of grinding pads and an industrial sized angle grinder?

[morbydvisns]

Muratic acid works much easier.

[Mit]

Its on the list to add a configurable option to the player targetting menu so you can add a button with a custom name and receive an event when its used.

Done for 0.63.3. You can now add custom named options to the main menu displays, and override each of the buttons in the player popup display, all of which trigger a 'MenuOption' event which your script can do what it likes with.
I'll extend this further so that all/most of the default menu buttons in the game can be replaced with script as needed.