WB Tutorial Questions

Gaear,

I respect very much the fact that you do not want list-only map areas, so how do you suggest I add the content/maps I am creating? Are we not limited by the # of map icons we can have, and therefore I would be stealing other places?

Would it be o.k. if I just sent the adventurers for a quick detour to the location via dialogue, so the world map is not involved? Similiar to the witchs note, I dont believe that opened a world map location.

 

Question regarding the invensource.mes file, how do you make a character dual wield? I notice that if I give an character two weapons in the file, they will only wield one. I know dual wielding is possible since the assassin dual wields and has it's own entry, but I cannot get anyone else to do it. Is there some syntax or parameters I need to know about?

 

Well my initial plans were to add 2 more map list locations. One to the mountains just west of Hommlet, and one north in the Kron Hills. At the moment, I think only the one in the mountains west of Hommlet will make it into the first release of my mod (so I can tell if people like the direction I am going before I work on an enormous amount of content).

If the party was sent to the mountains west of Hommlet via dialogue, and it was not a map list location, would they be able to return via worldmap travel or would they need to dialogue out? I would assume we could allow them to leave via world map similiar to a random encounter (which has no set clickable location) but you know better than me.

 

I am pushing full steam on this expansion because I want it done by the end of the week if possible. But I do have a situation I dont know how to handle though...

I want to spawn a new merchant in Hommlet after a global variable =1. I have a spawner script which will spawn them, but the tricky part is linking them to an invisible chest. These are the problems I see:

If I have my spawner script do:

Code:

merchant = game.obj_create(14830, location_from_axis( 514, 460 ))

Then I am unable to link them to an inventory source in WorldBuilder (because it is not a MOB file).

If I make the merchant by creating a mob file, then the merchant will be in Hommlet before the global flag, but I will be able to link it to an invisible chest inventory source.

How can I accomplish what I want to do?

Note: I just realized someone was able to do this with Lareth in the Tower when he becomes a merchant... does anyone know how this was pulled off?

 

Another question regarding the temple throne which goes away on the map, how is it done? I looked in the maps folder for the area and the only objects it includes is the ragged parchment and the generic_spawner which has a san_heartbeat for py334 in the scr folder. This py file has nothing concerning this map (it contains other things for the ambush and spawning Al) but that is it...

And there were no chest objects in that folder... weird.

How did they make the throne object disappear?

 

I dont mean to sound ignorant, but how do I adjust those variables in a script? I have never seen it done.

Woot, 100 posts.

 

And I am sorry I have so many questions, but I need to get this done within the next couple days. This is the whole golden orb file (py218) from the dat's.

Code:

from toee import *

def san_insert_item( attachee, triggerer ):
	if ((triggerer.type == obj_t_pc) and (game.global_flags[341] == 0)):
		game.global_flags[341] = 1
		game.char_ui_hide()
		game.fade(2,0,303,0)
		burne = find_npc_near( triggerer, 8054 )
		if (burne != OBJ_HANDLE_NULL):
			triggerer.begin_dialog( burne, 470 )
	gem = triggerer.item_find(5808)
	if (gem != OBJ_HANDLE_NULL):
		triggerer.d20_send_signal(S_Golden_Skull_Combine,gem)
		gem.destroy()
	gem = triggerer.item_find(5809)
	if (gem != OBJ_HANDLE_NULL):
		triggerer.d20_send_signal(S_Golden_Skull_Combine,gem)
		gem.destroy()
	gem = triggerer.item_find(5810)
	if (gem != OBJ_HANDLE_NULL):
		triggerer.d20_send_signal(S_Golden_Skull_Combine,gem)
		gem.destroy()
	gem = triggerer.item_find(5811)
	if (gem != OBJ_HANDLE_NULL):
		triggerer.d20_send_signal(S_Golden_Skull_Combine,gem)
		gem.destroy()
	return SKIP_DEFAULT

Flag 341 is the 'Got Golden Orb' Flag, and I am sure the 'game.fade(2,0,303,0)' runs the movie, but nothing seems to change a sector/object/ect...

EDIT: Furthermore, the embedded objects are protos 2089 (floor dropping) and 2090 (TI Throne) which do not have any py file #'s referenced in their prototypes.

 

You know what, I can do all of this a different way if there is a script that runs whenever a new game is loaded to check a global flag and change the map and sectoring if needed. I just need to edit this script...

I dont think a first_heartbeat script on the map would work because the map is allready loaded, and it would create problems re-drawing the map.