board update help

[Prozac]

I almost have this down,
its purpose: to hit bushes just like a sword does.

Problems:
>the bush does not grow back (online)
>the update of the board overwrites the tiles surrounding the board- such as if the bush is near part of a tree, it may take a chunk of tree out to put the removed-bush tile.

//#CLIENTSIDE
if (weaponfired)
{
 playersprite=33;
 freezeplayer .2;
 putx=playerx+1.5+vecx(playerdir)*2;
 puty=playery+1.5+vecy(playerdir)*2;

 putx = int(putx/2)*2;
 puty = int(puty/2)*2;
 isbush=0;
 for (i=0; i<2; i++) for (j=0; j<2; j++)
  {
    b = board[putx+i+64*(puty+j)];
    bx = b % 16;
    by = int(b / 16);
   //detect bush tiles
    if ((bx==2&&by==0)||
        (bx==2&&by==1)||
        (bx==3&&by==0)||
        (bx==3&&by==1)){
     isbush = 1;
    }
  }

if (isbush==1)
 {
  board[putx+64*puty] = 5+42*16;
  board[putx+1+64*puty] = 6+42*16;
  board[putx+64*(puty+1)] = 5+43*16;
  board[putx+1+64*(puty+1)] = 6+43*16;
  //put bush removed tiles on the level
  updateboard putx,puty,2,2;
  putleaps 0,putx,puty;
 }

}

Any help with getting the board update tiles to be placed correctly would be great please.

[Yen]

Check that the whole bush is there, not just part.
Also, changing tiles will only show for you, not others. You have to do it on the serverside to make the bush look cut to other players.

It's not a good idea to ask for help on fixing scripts you didn't make, since the responses will only confuse you. That's definately taken from part of the Shovel NPC.

[Prozac]

thanks for the help.
The reponse does not confuse me, it makes sense.
And of course it is taken from the shovel npc, as that was the only example of modifying the board tiles that I could find.

Show me any substantial computer programming function that you did not learn by seeing an example of that code to work from.

[Yen]

Mostly all of them.

Use tiles[x,y] instead of board[x,y]

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Yen

Check that the whole bush is there, not just part.
Also, changing tiles will only show for you, not others. You have to do it on the serverside to make the bush look cut to other players.

Approved 2x2 clientside changes are sent to the server automatically (for the default changes, like cut bushes and picked-up rocks). There is no need to do such things serverside.

[Yen]

Are you sure? I had to send it to the serverside for the default grass. :/

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Yen

Are you sure? I had to send it to the serverside for the default grass. :/

Yeah. There was a short time where they weren't being sent properly from v4 a while back; Stefan has since fixed it. How long ago did you do the testing?

[Yen]

This was when I had to use v3

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Yen

This was when I had to use v3

Well, it works properly from v4 these days. Give it a try.

[Admins]

Prozac, better do putx = int(putx) and puty = int(puty) otherwise you might update the wrong tiles