Scripting Question- Neutralize at 1/4

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AuthorTopic: Scripting Question- Neutralize at 1/4
Haruichiban
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 written Saturday, March 27 2004 23:20 Profile #0
Right, so I'm trying to learn Avernumscript...
Could someone explain how I would make a creature turn neutral/ friendly after it has lost one quarter (1/4) of its life? May be stupid but I want to know how it is done. Have to start somewhere.

[ Sunday, March 28, 2004 07:31: Message edited by: Bahamut ]
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Drakefyre
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 written Sunday, March 28 2004 02:04 Profile Homepage #1
There's the set_attitude call. For the HP part, you can use get_health and get_max_health calls. To be more efficient, get_max_health once and then store it in a variable.

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Haruichiban
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 written Sunday, March 28 2004 03:43 Profile #2
I figured that much, yeah, but I didn't get it to work... Oh well, thanks anyway Drakey, I'll keep experimenting.

EDIT: Ok, so it works. Well, works as in worked twice, didn't work the rest of the {insert large number here} times I tried it. Howcome, when I ask it to divide (using an if statment and the current health call before) x with 4 (x being the max health) that it only turns neutral when the health is 0 (or at least, when the health bar is fully red.) ?
Furthermore, can I prevent the monster from being killed? Like stoping the party member, friendly npc, whatever from reducing the monsters health to negativ?

[ Sunday, March 28, 2004 08:24: Message edited by: Bahamut ]
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Desert Pl@h
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 written Sunday, March 28 2004 10:32 Profile #3
You could do it so that it creates a new monster when it dies, an encounter perhaps to add talk. And you could clean up any blood or mess left.

Of course, I'm thinking in BoE terms, because…*sniff*…I use a PC. Anyway, that's the simple way to do it. You'd have to lower it's max health, though.

EDIT: Well, if it's one monster, it ought to be easy, just by using a constant for the health. If it's multiple types, however, that would require a more complex system, like the one you're talking about.

[ Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:33: Message edited by: Desert Plah ]

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Haruichiban
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 00:44 Profile #4
quote:
Originally written by Desert Plah:

You could do it so that it creates a new monster when it dies, an encounter perhaps to add talk. And you could clean up any blood or mess left.

Of course, I'm thinking in BoE terms, because…*sniff*…I use a PC. Anyway, that's the simple way to do it. You'd have to lower it's max health, though.
Wouldn't that play the death animation, so it woulf fall/evaporate/dissolve/whatever one second and the next it would be standing/alt. laying (using alt. graphics).
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The Creator
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 02:36 Profile #5
You could give it a custom graphic with no death animation.

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macman0
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 03:06 Profile #6
Well I STILL haven't taken the time to read all of the scripting info so this may be a really dumb idea, but... What if you made an item that "saves life" 100% of the time. You give the item to the character. Then, when you want the thing to die, just use some scripting magic to take it away.

*Shrugs* Just a thought, nothing more.
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Haruichiban
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 03:36 Profile #7
@ The Creator: True, but wouldn't that leave a gap, a flicker, or something?

@ Macman0: I don't know if it would work, and I dont have the skills yet to pull anything like that off, yet. Thanks anyway.
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*i
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 03:44 Profile #8
Items do have the lifesaver ability that has a 5% * item strength of working. So give an item one charge and 20 strength of life saving and it will do as you want.

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Spidweb
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 12:20 Profile Homepage #9
Look at the script t9griffon.txt in Diplomacy of the Dead. I think this is along the lines of what you're looking for.

The main risk is that the party will do so much damage in a round that the monster will die before it gets a chance to become friendly. If you really, really want this creature to live, you might want to have scripts watch for the creature being killed and respawn it if it dies before it has a chance to become friendly.

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The Creator
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 13:25 Profile #10
Put standard standing-up graphics in the death animation slots, then.

Or if you want to script it and make sure it doesn't die too soon, you could just give it way more health than it really should have.

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macman0
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 13:48 Profile #11
I've been testing my ideas here (I need the script practice) and I have the life saving item working... most of the time. And the turn friendly script working... pretty much all of the time. But I can't get the command to remove the object to work. It keeps saying "Peculiar Error. Undefined Function." Or something like that anyway.

if (char_has_item(ME,447))
char_take_item(ME,447);

What am I doing wrong in the above statement. The item exists, and the character DOES have it. If I just put a little print statement after the if line it goes through just fine and prints the line for me. So I think it's the char_take_item command. I just don't see what's wrong. :confused:
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Eldiran
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 14:17 Profile #12
Hm. Its possible that

A) The function char_take_item doesn't work on monsters.

B) ME doesn't work with char_take_item.

C) Something else is wrong.

If neither of the top two (which I am unable to test, as BoA hasn't arrived yet) is true, then I haven't the slightest as to what's wrong.

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macman0
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 written Monday, March 29 2004 15:26 Profile #13
Well... It's not the "ME" that won't work. Either way though, it seems to be a moot point. The 100% life saving objects only seem to work about 85% of the time so. So... good luck whoever needed help. I tried. :P
This "Peculiar Error. Undefined Function Called." thing really bugs me though. I can't find that error listed anywhere. So it really is a bit... peculiar.
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Drakefyre
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 written Tuesday, March 30 2004 00:10 Profile Homepage #14
It should be if (char_has_item(ME,447) == 1)

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macman0
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 written Tuesday, March 30 2004 02:34 Profile #15
It doesn't make a difference either way it would seem. I still get the same error. It is in the char_give_item / char_take_item calls. At least I think so. The if statement works fine. I put a little print call right after it to test if it does actually work, and that's not the problem.

if (char_has_item(my_number(),447) == 1) {
@@@@@print_str("Yep");
@@@@@print_big_str("I am ",my_number()," !");
@@@@@char_take_item(my_number(),447);
@@@@@}

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Haruichiban
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 written Tuesday, March 30 2004 04:03 Profile #16
*Looks through t9griffon.txt .* Hmm, yeah... Thanks, that helps! Next time I'll look through the scripts before I ask something stupid.
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