Niborius
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Is there a possibility to spawn a scroll using a script?

I want to make a scroll for each active quest, which updates itself when you've discovered something new and the quest goes on etc.

I already figured how I should do it with custom vars (Example: Wait for var aaaQuest_Ring 1, Build Scroll (With certain text) at 2,4, Wait for var aaaQuest_Ring 2, Build Scroll (With same text, plus an update) at 2,4.)

That is just the idea, it's now exactly how it goes, but I hope you get what I mean.

Hope someone can help me out I tried spawning an empty scroll using the myscript option, but one doesn't even spawn in the first place, and then I wouldn't know how to add some text to it.

Thanks in advance!

Doom
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Not sure if it's possible to add text to spawned scrolls but there's an easier solution. You can put text in variables and place a normal scroll with "$variable_name$".

Niborius
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With adding text to spawned scrolls I meant like overwriting the previous one, so it looks like more text had appeared while it's actually all re-written by the script.


Anyway, I am confused as to how I could do what you said exactly?

Thanks for the quick response though

Doom
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It's all in the game help files if you look for script commands -> set var, but here's a small example hold.

Niborius
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Oh, thought I made a reply on your post yesterday. I'm sorry.

Thank you, that is actually exactly what I wanted! Is there anything the game code can not do?

Cool, now I made it so that there's a quest journal for the player which he can see whenever he presses the CMD button.

Thanks a lot for the effort!

The spitemaster
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Don't be silly. DROD is turing complete; you don't need to use code at all. But yes, the code can do anything too.

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Rooms are finite, though.

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Someone Else
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Yes, but as you will see in my level set currently in planning, "The Tower", the space contained in a room is unbounded.