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[Xorlak]

i need so much help! Xorlak, how did you get the character (in battle) to change his position (like when you use an item) with out showing anything underhim (like when you put an image over an image) i would have thought it was the restorescreen method, but i dont see that bat "flash out and in"?   and is the an "invisable color" in the TK? like for Game Maker, if you have a certain shade of green, it will show nothing in its place?

I use #stance(position!, name$) to make the character change his pose.  But there is a bug so that it doesn't erase the old position completely.  One way to fix this it to do #savescreen before setting the character down and then #restorescreen(x1!, y1!, x2!, y2!, xdest!, ydest!) to restore that position of the screen when changing the stance.  (I actually use #scan and #mem because I use the #savescreen for something else, but it gives the same effect.)

Cesque is right (except it's #setimagetransparent, heh).

[DarkElite]

hmm, interesting (another ingenius idea from xorlak  Laughing ) , but if youve set down the image of the character in the edit character place, y do you have the images of the character to set down too? and would you savescreen after or before you put down the enemy?

[DarkElite]

One way to fix this it to do #savescreen before setting the character down and then #restorescreen(x1!, y1!, x2!, y2!, xdest!, ydest!) to restore that position of the screen when changing the stance.

huh? there are variable to use in restorescreen? how come it doesnt metion this in the manual? hmm... does that mean you can designate a value to savescreen too? ie. #SaveScreen(board1$)?

[DarkElite]

hmm... im having trouble including enemy stats heres the view...

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#ene1prg$="Enemy_"+enemy1$+".prg"
#Include(ene1prg$)
#enemyhp[1]!=enemyhp!
#enemythp[1]!=enemythp!
#enemyattack[1]!=enemyattack!
#enemydefence[1]!=enemydefence!
#enemyspd[1]!=enemyspd!
#enemygiveexp[1]!=enemygiveexp!
#enemyitemgive[1]$=enemyitemgive$
#enemyspecial[1]!=enemyspecial!
#enemypotion[1]!=enemypotion!
#enemymagic[1]$=enemymagic$
#enemyposX[1]!=enemyposX!
#enemyposY[1]!=enemyposY!
#enemyX[1]!=enemyX!
#enemyY[1]!=enemyY!

#If (enemies!=2)
{
#ene2prg$="Enemy_"+enemy2$+".prg"
#Include(ene2prg$)
#enemyhp[2]!=enemyhp!
#enemythp[2]!=enemythp!
#enemyattack[2]!=enemyattack!
#enemydefence[2]!=enemydefence!
#enemyspd[2]!=enemyspd!
#enemygiveexp[2]!=enemygiveexp!
#enemyspecial[2]!=enemyspecial!
#enemypotion[2]!=enemypotion!
#enemymagic[2]$=enemymagic$
#enemyposX[2]!=enemyposX!
#enemyposY[2]!=enemyposY!
#enemyX[2]!=enemyX!
#enemyY[2]!=enemyY!
}

#If (enemy1$=enemy2$)
{
#enemyposX[2]!=enemyposX[1]!-enemyX[2]!-20
#enemyposY[2]!=enemyposY[1]!-enemyY[2]!-20
}
#Kill(ene1prg$)
#Kill(ene2prg$)
the two enemies im testing are the same, heres the program from "Enemy_Bat.prg"

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#enemyhp!=35
#enemythp!=35
#enemyattack!=6
#enemydefence!=3
#enemyspd!=3
#enemygiveexp!=10
#enemyitemgive$=potion
#enemyspecial!=13
#enemypotion!=1
#enemymagic$=2
#enemyposX!=180
#enemyposY!=90
#enemyX!=66
#enemyY!=36

[Cesque]

Hmmm, including? I only thinked this is good for #methods... Best way is to put in enemy stats when enemy attacks, THEN launch the battle program.

For example...

#enemyhp!=35
#enemythp!=35
#enemyattack!=6
#enemydefence!=3
#enemyspd!=3
#enemygiveexp!=10
#enemyitemgive$=potion
#enemyspecial!=13
#enemypotion!=1
#enemymagic$=2
#enemyposX!=180
#enemyposY!=90
#enemyX!=66
#enemyY!=36

#run("fight.prg")

Or make a #method out of battle system...

#method battle(enemyhp!,enemythp!,enemyattack!,enemydefence,...etc)

[Xorlak]

hmm... im having trouble including enemy stats heres the view...

Just including the program won't load the stats.  You need to run a method from the program that loads the stats.  Set up your enemy program like this:

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#method loadenemy_bat()
{
#enemyhp!=35
#enemythp!=35
#enemyattack!=6
#enemydefence!=3
#enemyspd!=3
#enemygiveexp!=10
#enemyitemgive$=potion
#enemyspecial!=13
#enemypotion!=1
#enemymagic$=2
#enemyposX!=180
#enemyposY!=90
#enemyX!=66
#enemyY!=36
}

Now at the top of the first part, you'll have something like:

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#ene1prg$="Enemy_"+enemy1$+".prg"
#Include(ene1prg$)
#loadcommand$="#loadenemy_"+enemy1$
#rpgcode(loadcommand$) *runs #loadenemy_bat method
#enemyhp[1]!=enemyhp!
...


huh? there are variable to use in restorescreen? how come it doesnt metion this in the manual? hmm... does that mean you can designate a value to savescreen too? ie. #SaveScreen(board1$)?

No, you can only have one #savescreen at a time  (unfortunately).  The "Juicy" plugin at the shack has something that does something similar though, but I hear it's a little buggy.

hmm, interesting (another ingenius idea from xorlak  ) , but if youve set down the image of the character in the edit character place, y do you have the images of the character to set down too? and would you savescreen after or before you put down the enemy?

You mean in Dark Age 2?  The extra images are for various special attacks.  I actually do #savescreen after setting down the enemy, and redraw everything when it dies.  But you can do it either way.

[DarkElite]

now im confused! but the enemy loading is working now! thank cesque and xorlak! but i dont get the scaning tiles and redraw them and all that stuff you said you did, cause when i scan tem with a bitmap (hoping the bitmap will save into it) it wont work, and the redrawing thing, are you talking about #ForceRedraw?

[Zeros']

haha...ive been away from TK so long im getting confused (haha thats funny huh?)

[Haraldur]

Yeah... Laughing

[DarkElite]

another question from Elite  Laughing  :

now the damn cursor wont work. the enemy coordinates are set into
enemyposX[1]! and enemyposY[1]!

 (the one can be a 2 or a variable to decide which enemy it is)

and the length and width are enemyX[1]! and enemyY[1]!

heres the cursor thingy

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#savescreen()
#ene!=1
:enesel
#done!=0
#While (done!=0)
{
#eneX!=enemyposX[ene!]!-10
#eneY!=enemyY[ene!]!/2+enemyposY[ene!]!
#setimagetransparent("EneArrow.gif",eneX!,eneY!,10,15,255,255,255)
#Wait(enesel$)
#If (enesel$="LEFT")
{
#If (enemies!~=2){#Branch (:enesel)}
#If (ene!=2){#Branch (:enesel)}
#ene!=2
#RestoreScreen()
#Branch (:enesel)
}
#If (enesel$="RIGHT")
{
#If (ene!=1){#Branch (:enesel)}
#ene!=1
#RestoreScreen()
#Branch (:enesel)
}
#If (enesel$=back$)
{
#RestoreScreen()
#Branch (:attack)
}
#If (enesel$=confirm$)
{
}
} *for while

[Mark of the Dragon]

Oh god...thank god im not gonna start a BS till school's out! Let me finish my programming classes first!

[DarkElite]

got enery thing fixed out, but is there anyway to convert the pixel posittion to text position? like the place of an enemy is diffrent depending on the enemy, so i want to convert the picture placement into a text x y, so i can put down the damage and stuff like that

[Xorlak]

Hmm, for a pixel to text coordinate conversion, divide the pixel coordinates by the font size (and to go the other way, multiply by the font size).  It's not perfect, but it should be pretty close (it works best with the Toolkit fonts, not true type).

[DarkElite]

tk fonts? as in the "fixedsys" font, the orgiional font (i think its "base") or a custom font made with TK?

[Xorlak]

Any font made using the Toolkit, i.e. #font("base.fnt")