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Butch32
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Building Scripting Question (0)

I want to create a character, that if a withered briar is in its 3x3 square radius, it would turn into a briar root, using a default script for anywhere in the room.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

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[Last edited by Butch32 at 02-16-2018 10:51 PM]

02-16-2018 at 10:49 PM

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Xindaris
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Re: Building Scripting Question (0)

To make a character do something relative to itself, you'll need myscript. So go read this primer on what myscript is and how it works first.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: I reread your description and everything I had written here was wrong. A little myscripting will do the job just fine. I believe one of the examples in the primer does almost exactly what you'd need to do to check for a withered-briar tile in the 3x3 radius even.

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[Last edited by Xindaris at 02-16-2018 11:29 PM]

02-16-2018 at 11:21 PM

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superluminal
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Re: Building Scripting Question (+1)

Here's a script! Just create a custom character, name it "Butch32", and Ctrl-C -> Ctrl-Shift-B to copy/paste it in.

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Label _TOP
  Set var "_MyX" = 0
  Set var "_MyY" = 0
Label Read room
  If ... 
        Wait until var "_MyY" < 31
     If ... 
           Wait until var "_MyX" < 37
        GoSub Am I surrounded by a 3x3 block of briar?
        Set var "_MyX" + 1
        Go to Read room
     If End 
     Set var "_MyX" = 0
     Set var "_MyY" + 1
     Go to Read room
  If End 
  Set var "_MyScriptX" = -9999
  Wait 0
  Go to _TOP
Label Am I surrounded by a 3x3 block of briar?
  Set var "_MyScriptX" = _MyX - 1
  Set var "_MyScriptY" = _MyY - 1
  Set var "_RoomImageX" = 0
Label Briar check loop
  If ... 
        Wait until var "_MyScriptY" < (_MyY + 2)
     If ... 
           Wait until var "_MyScriptX" < (_MyX + 2)
        If ... 
              Wait for item Withered briar,0,0,0,0
           Set var "_RoomImageX" + 1
        If End 
        Set var "_MyScriptX" + 1
        Go to Briar check loop
     If End 
     Set var "_MyScriptX" = _MyX - 1
     Set var "_MyScriptY" + 1
     Go to Briar check loop
  If End 
  Set var "_MyScriptX" = _MyX
  Set var "_MyScriptY" = _MyY
  If ... 
        Wait until var "_RoomImageX" = 9
     Build Briar root,0,0,0,0
  If End 
  Return

Sadly, it doesn't work, and I'm not sure why. If someone more versed than I would come along and fix its problems, I would be thankful.

And here's the code to make it a default script. Have a character in the room run this:

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  Start global script Butch32
  End

This code works!

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[Last edited by superluminal at 02-17-2018 07:26 PM]

02-17-2018 at 08:19 AM

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Xindaris
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Re: Building Scripting Question (0)

There's no "Wait 0" command. You need one of those to stop the turn so it doesn't just say "Oh this is an infinite loop all in one turn, KILL THE SCRIPT!" Just add "Wait 0" after setting _MyscriptX to -9999 and before going back to the start.

But I think this is actually more than what was wanted. A careful reading suggests the OP actually seems to want a root to be built if any tile in the 3x3 area around it is withered briar, not necessarily requiring that all of them are.

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[Last edited by Xindaris at 02-17-2018 04:34 PM]

02-17-2018 at 04:34 PM

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superluminal
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Re: Building Scripting Question (0)

Good catch! Change: IMPLEMENTED!

It doesn't work on the first turn anyway. You're probably right that it's infinite loop stuff. The loop needs to jump around something like 15,000 times, and that's enough to trigger DROD's loop warnings. I don't know exactly what Butch32 wants -- but it's probably not this broken script!

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02-19-2018 at 09:17 AM

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