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AuthorTopic: State of Chaos
Amyth
Shaper
Member # 7472
 written Saturday, September 23 2006 13:56 Profile Homepage #0
I'm having a small problem with one of my town scripts, and I can't figure out why. Here is what's going on. The party walks up to a lever and gets ambushed. Once the ambushers are defeated, the party can pull the lever.

The thing is, once the hidden group appears, the whole town script shuts down. Any error message I recieve is lost because the monsters act instantly after the state is called. Here is the state. Any ideas?

beginstate 53;

if ((get_flag(4,9) == 250) && (is_combat() == 0)) {
reset_dialog();
add_dialog_str(0,"Yet again, you attempt to approach this lever. It appears that...",0);
add_dialog_str(1,"What do you want to do?",0);
add_dialog_choice(0,"Pull the lever.");
add_dialog_choice(1,"Back away slowly.");
choice = run_dialog(0);
if (choice == 1) {
if (get_flag(4,5) < 5) {
set_terrain(37,46,392);
set_terrain(41,46,392);
set_terrain(37,42,392);
set_terrain(41,42,392);
set_flag(4,5,1);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
pause(2);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
message_dialog("When you pull this lever, you hear...");
}
if (get_flag(4,5) == 125) {
set_flag(4,5,250);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
pause(2);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
pause(3);
play_sound(162);
message_dialog("When you pull this lever, you hear...");
}
if (get_flag(4,5) == 250) {
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
pause(2);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
print_str_color("Nothing seems to happen.",3); }
}
}

if (get_flag(4,9) == 0) {
message_dialog("As you approach the lever, you hear a rustling noise from...");
set_terrain(26,42,0);
set_terrain(27,43,0);
set_terrain(26,44,0);
set_terrain(26,45,0);
set_terrain(28,46,0);
set_terrain(30,46,0);
set_terrain(29,45,0);
set_terrain(29,44,0);
set_terrain(30,44,0);
set_terrain(31,43,0);
set_terrain(32,45,0);
activate_hidden_group(3);
set_flag(4,9,250); }


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Lazarus.
Lifecrafter
Member # 6193
 written Saturday, September 23 2006 14:33 Profile Homepage #1
Make sure all the dialog strings are of the appropriate length, make sure all message_dialogs have a "" for empty strings. If neither of these is a problem, then temporarily delete all monsters in hidden group 3 so that you can see the error message before they print over it.

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Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Saturday, September 23 2006 15:54 Profile Homepage #2
beginstate 53;

if ((get_flag(4,9) == 250) && (is_combat() == 0)) {
reset_dialog();
add_dialog_str(0,"Yet again, you attempt to approach this lever. It appears that...",0);
add_dialog_str(1,"What do you want to do?",0);
add_dialog_choice(0,"Pull the lever.");
add_dialog_choice(1,"Back away slowly.");
choice = run_dialog(0);
if (choice == 1) {
if (get_flag(4,5) < 5) {
set_terrain(37,46,392);
set_terrain(41,46,392);
set_terrain(37,42,392);
set_terrain(41,42,392);
set_flag(4,5,1);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
pause(2);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
********************message_dialog("When you pull this lever, you hear...");
}
if (get_flag(4,5) == 125) {
set_flag(4,5,250);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
pause(2);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
pause(3);
play_sound(162);
************************message_dialog("When you pull this lever, you hear...");
}
if (get_flag(4,5) == 250) {
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
pause(2);
flip_terrain(29,42);
play_sound(94);
print_str_color("Nothing seems to happen.",3); }
}
}

if (get_flag(4,9) == 0) {
************************message_dialog("As you approach the lever, you hear a rustling noise from...");[/b]
set_terrain(26,42,0);
set_terrain(27,43,0);
set_terrain(26,44,0);
set_terrain(26,45,0);
set_terrain(28,46,0);
set_terrain(30,46,0);
set_terrain(29,45,0);
set_terrain(29,44,0);
set_terrain(30,44,0);
set_terrain(31,43,0);
set_terrain(32,45,0);
activate_hidden_group(3);
set_flag(4,9,250); }


[ Saturday, September 23, 2006 15:57: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Amyth
Shaper
Member # 7472
 written Saturday, September 23 2006 16:11 Profile Homepage #3
Two thing I've learned today. First, the message pane has a scroll bar! Secondly, it's much harder to pin down an error if you don't see the message, even if it's something common. Like in this case, where the problem was a missing 'break;' at the end of the state.

By the way, Kel, those were truncated message_dialog calls. That's not how they actually appear in the script. ;)

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Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Saturday, September 23 2006 16:45 Profile Homepage #4
quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

By the way, Kel, those were truncated message_dialog calls. That's not how they actually appear in the script. ;)
You mean you inserted three errors into the script and then asked us to find errors? :P

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

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Amyth
Shaper
Member # 7472
 written Saturday, September 23 2006 17:03 Profile Homepage #5
Oops. I forgot to make sure that truncating the messages wouldn't cause problems of their own.

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