| 04-02-2005, 02:14 AM | #1 |
I see some question about save/load. for hero or Item what's that. is that something to do with gamecache store or restore ? or something else ? |
| 04-02-2005, 09:18 AM | #2 |
It is when a player types -save as an example and then the game gives you a bunch of letters and numbers like this : 5h790a-m182y-19m2s That is your save/load code. Then when you play the game again, you can type -load 5h790a-m182y-19m2s and it will load your heroes previous level, possibly abilites, and items. It is not a game cache. |
| 04-02-2005, 10:42 AM | #3 |
It needs a good programmig knowledge to be done... there are some open source save/load triggers but it's not easy to understand how they works for noobs. |
| 04-02-2005, 08:00 PM | #4 | |
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well you don't really need programming knowledge or math knowledge to do and understand how it works, basically you're creating a one-to-one function that sends everything from one domain to another, and then back, ie encoding/decoding i'm sure you could do this: turn everything you want to save into a number, add 1 to that number (mod 10) and output that -- there u just encoded a save code of course, needless to say in order to make a GOOD function that is hard to crack and short is a whole different matter |
| 04-02-2005, 09:07 PM | #5 |
Is there any tutorial about save/load system ? or example to save Hero or Item ? if not what kind of function I should used to do save/load System ? I couldn't find any function or trigger action that blizzards provided that could make me to do save/load things. |
| 04-02-2005, 09:25 PM | #6 |
As Raptor-- said, making any kind of decent save/load system requires good math and triggering knowledge. It is not something you can do just with the help of a tutorial. You should rather look into finding an already existing save/load system that you can implement into your map rather than attempting to make one yourself. |
| 04-02-2005, 10:17 PM | #7 |
I have no problem with math, what I want to know is what function or trigger action that provide by blizzard I should used to make basic save/load system ? I mean what function or trigger action I should used to save data into file/load data from file in local or other computer, beside using Game cache or standard save/load game |
| 04-02-2005, 11:17 PM | #8 |
There are none, that's the point. The way save codes work is that they transform the data that needs to be saved into a string so they can then display this string to the player so the player can then write it down and then type it in the next game. A good system is expected to have as short a code as possible (so the player doesn't have to write/type too much) and a good encryption (so the player can't just type in a random code and just get some random hero). |
| 04-02-2005, 11:33 PM | #9 |
lol, It's not like save/load, it's more like cheat code from previous play. but thanx for info. |
