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1. Is there a good guide to scripting anywhere on the site? There's...well, a guide in the DBoD, but it's a little sketchy in places.

2. Is there a "if the blue walls have been dropped..." command?

3. Just to prove how little I understand what's going on, consider the attached hold. The two guards differ in a single line in their scripts, and even that line is essentially the same command. So why does one say "Ni!" while the other doesn't?

03-29-2006 at 06:59 AM

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Your problem here is that the line "speech guard" gets triggered twice simultaneously. That command makes a guard give it's speech, presumably the one first placed. You'll see that if you remove the speech command from the lower guard and leave it in the upper guard, the lower guard will still give the speech.

Instead of choosing "guard", I think in this case you'll want to choose "custom". After you select custom, you will be prompted to choose a square you want the speech to originate from. You should click on the appropriate guard.

Now that I think about it, if these guards will be moving, I don't know how the custom command will help you out, but that's gonna be what you want to experiment with in this case.

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03-29-2006 at 07:47 AM

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Tahnan wrote:
2. Is there a "if the blue walls have been dropped..." command?

if _ goto blah
Wait for Door to Open at (blue door coords).

03-29-2006 at 08:45 AM

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Your problem here is that the line "speech guard" gets triggered twice simultaneously.

Interesting--but not the problem. Try deleting the lower guard. In that case, you don't have the double-guard-speech-trigger problem. But the upper guard still doesn't say "Ni!".

03-29-2006 at 09:26 AM

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Tahnan wrote:
1. Is there a good guide to scripting anywhere on the site? There's...well, a guide in the DBoD, but it's a little sketchy in places.

Well, there is this post, about three above yours currently. It might be a bit too specific, but it explains everything in excruciating detail.

The answer to 2 given by Rabscuttle is also perfectly correct. "Wait for Door..." commands work on any type of door, not just yellow ones.

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03-29-2006 at 01:42 PM

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Oneiromancer wrote:
Well, there is this post, about three above yours currently. It might be a bit too specific, but it explains everything in excruciating detail.

No, that's pretty much exactly what I wanted. Sticky topics are really, really useful, until you've seen them so many times that you stop seeing them. Thanks!

03-29-2006 at 06:37 PM

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Aha! Figured it out!

You're going to want to add the line "wait 1 turn" after the "waiting" label for both guards. That way the loop doesn't continue indefinately after one turn. This will force it to stop between moves.

I don't exactly know how one guard managed to say "Ni!" at all without those lines added. I figure it's some consequence of turn order that's beyond my simple mind. In any case, that's what you want.

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03-29-2006 at 07:08 PM

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RoboBob3000 wrote:
I don't exactly know how one guard managed to say "Ni!" at all without those lines added. I figure it's some consequence of turn order that's beyond my simple mind. In any case, that's what you want.

This is because "face direction SE" doesn't take a turn, but "face direction clockwise" takes. As said by RoboBob, the unlimited loop was the problem with the upper guard.

If you want simultaneous speech, setting speech delay to 1 ms. should work. Currently, the lines play one after each other even if you tweak them to play at the same time.

By the way, the script for the upper guard works in the exact same way if you remove the labels completely.

03-29-2006 at 07:54 PM

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Doom wrote:

RoboBob3000 wrote:
If you want simultaneous speech, setting speech delay to 1 ms. should work.

Or, you could add the 'Flush Speach' command before each guard says "Ni". Both will say it at the same time - no delay.

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03-30-2006 at 01:02 AM

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RoboBob3000 wrote:
Aha! Figured it out!

You're going to want to add the line "wait 1 turn" after the "waiting" label for both guards. That way the loop doesn't continue indefinately after one turn. This will force it to stop between moves.

I finally figured this out by reading the abovementioned guide to scripting: it's all about the difference between a "free" command and an "action" command. Wasn't expecting that.

Though it'd be nice if using "wait 0", thereby creating an infinite loop, would give an error message, rather than crashing DROD.

03-30-2006 at 05:37 AM

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Tahnan wrote:
Though it'd be nice if using "wait 0", thereby creating an infinite loop, would give an error message, rather than crashing DROD.

Eh? It shouldn't do either of these.

03-31-2006 at 09:49 PM

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Tahnan wrote:
Though it'd be nice if using "wait 0", thereby creating an infinite loop, would give an error message, rather than crashing DROD.
Eh? It shouldn't do either of these.

Aaaaand....it's not doing them again. But I've got a nice long series of "*** FIRST LOG IN SESSION 3/28/06 3:21PM *** Character script is in an infinite loop" messages. Followed, as it happens, by some

Assertion error in line 287 of C:\\Caravel\\DROD17\\DRODLib\\DbSpeech.cpp: "SpeechID is bad."
Assertion error in line 966 of C:\\Caravel\\DROD17\\DRODLib\\Character.cpp: "command.pSpeech"

which seemed to have something to do with one of the guards' speeches getting deleted and replaced with a "?". If I can get it to repeat, I'll (a) be very sorry, and (b) report it a a bug.

04-01-2006 at 08:35 AM

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Tahnan wrote:
Followed, as it happens, by some

Assertion error in line 287 of C:\\Caravel\\DROD17\\DRODLib\\DbSpeech.cpp: "SpeechID is bad."
Assertion error in line 966 of C:\\Caravel\\DROD17\\DRODLib\\Character.cpp: "command.pSpeech"

which seemed to have something to do with one of the guards' speeches getting deleted and replaced with a "?".

Yep. This definitely sounds familiar. I didn't create any infinite loops, though.

As for the wait 0 thing, I'm not getting anything either. Maybe your script had something else in it when it looped?

04-01-2006 at 08:45 AM

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