How to handle custom swords

[AlexanderK]

The thread title says it all.

I'm nearly done with my custom Item system and Inventory, but I'm still not sure how to handle custom swords.

I was thinking that I could maybe add a weapon to the player, that is called like the sword with a "-" in front of it , eg "-Sword of Doom" , and that has a script that reacts to the Button S, and take that weapon away when another sword is equipped.

But that seems awfully complicated. I'm sure you guys have probably thought of a much better way to do it. So which way should I do it?

[DrakilorP2P]

Use one weapon script that handles all possible swords I guess? I'm not sure I understand the question.

[Soala]

Like Maui said, you'd be better off using a single wNPC to handle the said equiping/inventory system, and have a database NPC to store/use all informations about each sword.
Using a wNPC for each sword is way too messy imo.

You could have custom variables with of course a sword attribute in your ganis. With a well organized template, manipulating the weapon's img using the weapon's name is much better, which is what most servers do. The rest should be a piece of cake next

[cbk1994]

My suggestion:

One database NPC named, say, Swords, formatted like so:

PHP Code:

function onInitialized() {
  this.trigger("created"); // re-add values on start incase they were removed
}

function onCreated() {
  this.sword.clearVars(); // empty variables so strays aren't left over to cause problems
  
  // Super Sword
  this.sword.supersword.swordName = "Super Sword";
  this.sword.supersword.attackSpeed = 0.2;
  this.sword.supersword.damage = 20;
  
  // ****ty Sword
  this.sword.****tysword.swordName = "****ty Sword";
  this.sword.****tysword.attackSpeed = 1.2;
  this.sword.****tysword.damage = 1;
}

public function getSword(swordID) {
  return this.sword.(@ swordID).link();
} 


then have a single weapon, named something like -Swords, that controls equipping of swords (have the inventory trigger it when the player equips a new sword)

PHP Code:

function onSwordEquipped(swordID) {
  temp.sword = Swords.getSword(swordID);
  
  player.clientr.sword.swordName = sword.swordName;
  player.clientr.sword.attackSpeed = sword.attackSpeed;
  // etc..
} 


Then in the clientside of -Swords you can read from the clientr variables.

(anyone ever realize what a weird word "sword" is?)

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

(anyone ever realize what a weird word "sword" is?)

Yes .

It's better than Sharp Metal Stick.

[AlexanderK]

Thanks cbk1994! I'll do it that way when I get to it.
Right now I'm doing the HUD first.

Man, I forgot how much fun Graal coul be!

[fowlplay4]

Your char seems really out of place with the rest of your graphics.

[AlexanderK]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

Your char seems really out of place with the rest of your graphics.

And there goes the fun!
You know, I don't care. I'm doing this for me, for fun. Because I always loved Graal (Graal 1.4 got me hooked, when there was offline multiplayer for up to 4 players, I would always make fun levels for me and my friends to play on with gamepads). I don't hire anyone, I don't hog this forum with posts about my server. It will probably never be a full-on playable server, but that's not what I'm aiming for. The way is the goal. The 50€ for 6 months Developers Gold are well spent, if you think about how short games that cost 10€ more are nowadays and the amount of time you can have with playing around on your server.

Maybe I could make custom bodies, but that's a pain in the ass.

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by AlexanderK

And there goes the fun!
You know, I don't care. I'm doing this for me, for fun. Because I always loved Graal (Graal 1.4 got me hooked, when there was offline multiplayer for up to 4 players, I would always make fun levels for me and my friends to play on with gamepads). I don't hire anyone, I don't hog this forum with posts about my server. It will probably never be a full-on playable server, but that's not what I'm aiming for. The way is the goal. The 50€ for 6 months Developers Gold are well spent, if you think about how short games that cost 10€ more are nowadays and the amount of time you can have with playing around on your server.

Maybe I could make custom bodies, but that's a pain in the ass.

js, could use some black lines or sprites to fit geez.

[AlexanderK]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

js, could use some black lines or sprites to fit geez.

I'm sorry if you're offended by my post, I kind of overreacted.

But the other day I have been reading a few threads in this forum, and don't get me wrong, the scripting community is great and has been very helpful to me, but the attitude of some people in this forum is horrible. A lot of newbies get ridiculed, there is a lot of nagging, and people who rent servers are frowned upon because why would you rent a server? My post above is why.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by AlexanderK

I'm sorry if you're offended by my post, I kind of overreacted.

But the other day I have been reading a few threads in this forum, and don't get me wrong, the scripting community is great and has been very helpful to me, but the attitude of some people in this forum is horrible. A lot of newbies get ridiculed, there is a lot of nagging, and people who rent servers are frowned upon because why would you rent a server? My post above is why.

We only ridicule people who come here and expect freebies instead of genuinly wanting to learn.

[MrOmega]

My method to handling is a tad different. I use -sword system which handles slicing/charging/spining/updating tiles, but I have individual sword weapons. When a player selects a sword I trigger a function serverside of the sword weapon which handles the stat modifiers and sets a clientr val with the sword name/sword image/inventory position. When player selects another sword I find the sword the player has by a clientr value I set, then after it returns the mods to normal then update the clientr val and then trigger the mods in the new sword.

[AlexanderK]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

SUPER LONG QUOTE

I tried to do it like you suggested, but it didn't work, so I put in some echoes. It seems like the .link() doesn't survive the return. What could I do to fix that? I guess I just have to get every single value by itself, don't I?
These are the echoes:

trigger1 in -Inventory
trigger2 in -SWeapons
ID:Sword1
trigger3 in database npc
damage before returning:20
damage after return:

And this is my code (which is basically yours but with different names for variables)
weapon -SWeapons:

PHP Code:

function onSWeaponEquipped(sweaponID) {
  echo("trigger2 in -SWeapons");
  echo("ID:"@sweaponID);
  temp.sweapon = sweapons.getSWeapon(sweaponID);
  echo("damage after return:"@temp.sweapon.damage);
  clientr.sweapon.sweaponName = sweapon.sweaponName;
  clientr.sweapon.attackSpeed = sweapon.attackSpeed;
  clientr.sweapon.damage = sweapon.damage;
  clientr.sweapon.typus = sweapon.typus;
  clientr.sweapon.typus2 = sweapon.typus2;

} 


database npc sweapons:

PHP Code:

function onInitialized() {
  this.trigger("created"); // re-add values on start incase they were removed
}

function onCreated() {
  this.sweapon.clearVars(); // empty variables so strays aren't left over to cause problems
  
  //No Weapon
  this.sweapon.none.sweaponName = NULL;
  this.sweapon.none.attackSpeed = NULL;
  this.sweapon.none.damage = NULL;
  this.sweapon.none.typus = NULL;
  this.sweapon.none.typus2 = NULL;
  
  // Sword 1
  this.sweapon.Sword1.sweaponName = "Sword 1";
  this.sweapon.Sword1.attackSpeed = 0.2;
  this.sweapon.Sword1.damage = 20;
  this.sweapon.Sword1.typus = "slash";
  this.sweapon.Sword1.typus2 = "normal";
  
}

public function getSWeapon(sweaponID) {
  echo("trigger3 in database npc");
  temp.test = this.sweapon.(@ sweaponID).link();
  echo("damage before returning:"@temp.test.damage);
  return temp.test;
} 


[cbk1994]

Odd, I thought link worked like that.

This ought to work:

PHP Code:

function onInitialized() {
  this.trigger("created"); // re-add values on start incase they were removed
}

function onCreated() {
  this.sweapon.clearVars(); // empty variables so strays aren't left over to cause problems
  
  //No Weapon
  // added the below statement;
  // make sure to change the name ("SwordNone") for each sword, it doesn't
  // matter what it is, it just needs to be unique (it would be a good idea to prefix
  // it with Sword to prevent conflicts with other objects)
  this.sweapon.none = new TStaticVar("SwordNone");
  this.sweapon.none.sweaponName = NULL;
  this.sweapon.none.attackSpeed = NULL;
  this.sweapon.none.damage = NULL;
  this.sweapon.none.typus = NULL;
  this.sweapon.none.typus2 = NULL;
  
  // Sword 1
  this.sweapon.Sword1 = new TStaticVar("Sword1");
  this.sweapon.Sword1.sweaponName = "Sword 1";
  this.sweapon.Sword1.attackSpeed = 0.2;
  this.sweapon.Sword1.damage = 20;
  this.sweapon.Sword1.typus = "slash";
  this.sweapon.Sword1.typus2 = "normal";
  
}

public function getSWeapon(sweaponID) {
  echo("trigger3 in database npc");
  // removing link() from here since it now points to an actual object
  temp.test = this.sweapon.(@ sweaponID);
  echo("damage before returning:"@temp.test.damage);
  return temp.test;
}