Evil..food system... -spins in circles of insanity-

07-01-2004, 04:15 AM

Code:

Decrease Food
    Events
        Time - Every 20.00 seconds of game time
    Conditions
        StarvingBoolean Equal to False
    Actions
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                FoodCount Greater than 0
            Then - Actions
                Set FoodCount = (FoodCount - 1)
            Else - Actions
                Multiboard - Set the color for Multiboard item in column 3, row 1 to (100.00%, 0.00%, 0.00%) with 0.00% transparency
                Game - Display to Player Group - Player 1 (Red) the text: You are starving! F...
                Set StarvingBoolean = True
                Trigger - Run Starving <gen> (checking conditions)

Code:

Starving
    Events
        Time - Every 1.00 seconds of game time
    Conditions
    Actions
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                StarvingBoolean Equal to True
                FoodCount Equal to 0
            Then - Actions
                Unit - Set life of You to ((Life of You) - 1.00)
            Else - Actions
                If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
                    If - Conditions
                        StarvingBoolean Equal to True
                    Then - Actions
                        Unit - Set life of You to ((Life of You) - 1.00)
                    Else - Actions
                        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
                            If - Conditions
                                FoodCount Equal to 0
                            Then - Actions
                                Unit - Set life of You to ((Life of You) - 1.00)
                            Else - Actions
                                Set StarvingBoolean = False
                                Multiboard - Set the color for Multiboard item in column 3, row 1 to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 0.00% transparency
                                Game - Display to (All players) the text: You are no longer s...

Whats wrong with this? I just can't seem to get the Starving part right! I'v tried atleast 17 times to fix it, but all in vain. >_>

07-01-2004, 04:27 AM	#2
Toxicseaweed	K, have it just turn on starving and have a trigger to turn starving off. As far as i can see you tell it to run starving, which goes off every second and if it doesn't happen to be that special split second when you have Trigger - Run Starving <gen> (checking conditions) nothing gets set off.

07-01-2004, 10:29 AM	#3
Anitarf	Maybe you should replace Trigger - Run Starving <gen> with Trigger - turn on Starving <gen> (i'm guessing you want to activate a previously deactivated trigger when the food runs out) And the "Starving" trigger looks really really wierd to me. What exactly do you want it to do?

07-01-2004, 06:54 PM

Scyze

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anitar

Maybe you should replace Trigger - Run Starving <gen>
with Trigger - turn on Starving <gen> (i'm guessing you want to activate a previously deactivated trigger when the food runs out)

And the "Starving" trigger looks really really wierd to me. What exactly do you want it to do?

Heh, it's weird because it's a RPG with a food system. You run out of food, you die. I have a multiboard that displays the amount of food you have (its using numbers, as if how full your character is). Also, I did what both of you suggested, and it works! Thanks!

07-01-2004, 08:31 PM

Anitarf

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scyze

Yeah, no problem, but still, all the if-then-else stuff in that trigger... It seems.. I don't know, it can be done simpler. From what I've been able to analyize, the whole trigger would have the same effect if it looked like this:

Code:

Starving
    Events
        Time - Every 1.00 seconds of game time
    Conditions
    Actions
        If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
            If - Conditions
                Or - multiple conditions
                    Conditions:
                        StarvingBoolean Equal to True
                        FoodCount Equal to 0
            Then - Actions
                Unit - Set life of You to ((Life of You) - 1.00)
            Else - Actions
                Set StarvingBoolean = False
                Multiboard - Set the color for Multiboard item in column 3, row 1 to (100.00%, 100.00%, 100.00%) with 0.00% transparency
                Game - Display to (All players) the text: You are no longer s...

But even this trigger seems wrong. The whole StarvingBoolean seems redundant because it is set to true whenever the foodcount reaches 0, but since you already check if it's 0, then there's no need to check if the boolean is true...

Also, seting the boolean to false in the "Else-actions" is redundant, because that boolean must be false for those actions to run anyway. What is missing under the "else-actions", though, is the action "trigger - turn off (this trigger)", because when you're no longer starving, you don't need this trigger to keep running.