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uncopy2002
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Orthogonal weapon token? (0)

Basically, stepping on this token makes your weapon turn 90 degrees per turn instead of 45 degrees, hence orthogonal.

The direction which the weapon can have access to depends on its direction when it's stepped on. If it's stepped facing NW/NE/SW/SE, then it's limited to diagonals. Otherwise, it's limited to N/E/S/W.

08-19-2014 at 06:58 AM

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Re: Orthogonal weapon token? (+1)

You can script this pretty easily! Check out Dischorran's "Scripted stuff" hold, in particular the level The W Key Is Too Close To Everything.

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08-19-2014 at 05:30 PM

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lopsidation wrote:
You can script this pretty easily! Check out Dischorran's "Scripted stuff" hold, in particular the level The W Key Is Too Close To Everything.

When I was writing this particular thread I was thinking of turning a whole 90 degrees instead of 2 consecutive 45 degrees, which means the space between two orthogonals can't be hit when turning the sword across them. And I don't quite think that's scriptable...

By the way: I can't find that hold! Sorted according to author and hold name, and both doesn't return such a hold.

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08-19-2014 at 06:03 PM

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Re: Orthogonal weapon token? (0)

It's on architecture.

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08-19-2014 at 06:14 PM

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Re: Orthogonal weapon token? (+2)

When I was writing this particular thread I was thinking of turning a whole 90 degrees instead of 2 consecutive 45 degrees, which means the space between two orthogonals can't be hit when turning the sword across them. And I don't quite think that's scriptable...

It probably is. There is a new command "Attack tile" - "Stab".

EDIT: Actually I don't understand which behavior you think is not scriptable, but they should be both.

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08-19-2014 at 06:33 PM

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Re: Orthogonal weapon token? (+1)

Interesting idea but won't be implemented. I think an interesting scripting command that would make it possible would be "Prevent Next Player Move" which would convert the next move to "Wait", but whatever the player pressed would be readable by Wait for Input. Would be cool to create a separate thread for this if someone thinks it's worthwile.

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I could see a lot of potential uses for "ignore player's move", or whatever it's to be called, in terms of scripting up "custom control behavior". I can make a thread for it if you want.

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11-24-2020 at 12:32 AM

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I thought of a better way to solve this - extension of the "Run label ... on ..." command proposed here where an option would be "before player moves" and then we need one new command - "Override player move" .

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11-24-2020 at 09:08 AM

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Override Player Move sounds great.

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