Pickup Benefits?

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Pickup Benefits?

Post by LK873 »

I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think a feature idea taken from DDF would be nice in DECORATE to rid the need for any scripting. Firstly...(Note that this was taken from Things.ddf)

[HEALTH_POTION:2014]
RADIUS=20;
HEIGHT=16;
PICKUP_BENEFIT=HEALTH(1:200);
PICKUP_SOUND=ITEMUP;
PICKUP_MESSAGE=GotHealthPotion;
TRANSLUCENCY=60%;
RESPAWN_EFFECT=ITEM_RESPAWN;
SPECIAL=COUNT_AS_ITEM,SPECIAL;

STATES(IDLE)=BON1:A:6:NORMAL:NOTHING,
BON1:B:6:NORMAL:NOTHING,
BON1:C:6:NORMAL:NOTHING,
BON1:D:6:NORMAL:NOTHING,
BON1:C:6:NORMAL:NOTHING,
BON1:B:6:NORMAL:NOTHING;

I think something like Pickup.Benefit would be useful so that you don't have to script a special onto the new pickup you have created.

And this is hypothetical, but if Randy DOES include Timmie's code (or writes his own) for Dynamic Lights there should, of course, be a way to attach them to states of objects and actors (and weapons?).
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Post by Graf Zahl »

Wait for 2.0.97. It (or the inofficial .96 build) will support customizable pickup items. The code is already there.
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Post by LK873 »

I already have the updated .96 you made, how would I go about doing it? For example, say I make a different health potion that gives you 5 health instead of 1, how would I define this in DECORATE?
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Post by Graf Zahl »

ACTOR Health5 : HealthBonus
{
Inventory.Amount 5
}
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Post by LK873 »

But what I meant above was TRUE defining of what you get, this method just basically gives you five of the inherited item. What if you don't inherit from an item?
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Post by TheDarkArchon »

You have to inherit from something, otherwise it won't work.

Still makes the system pretty damn powerful, though.
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Post by LK873 »

It's powerful, yes, but it can be expanded upon.

I'm still trying to think up a good method on how to do it though...
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Post by LK873 »

Like, okay, what if I made a red health potion and when you picked it up, it made you lose 5 health, you can't inherit anything to do that, so what would be a scriptless, pure DECORATE way to do that, and if there isn't one, that's the point of my first post.
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Post by TheDarkArchon »

No, and there's no way to do it in EDGE without RTS either.

To have a red potion, however:

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ACTOR Health5 : HealthBonus
{
    Inventory.Amount 5
    States
    {
     Spawn:
          BON2 ABCDCB 6
          Loop
    }
}
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Post by Sir_Alien »

How would that make you lose 5 points of health?
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Post by TheDarkArchon »

In response to LK873, I wrote:No, and there's no way to do it in EDGE without RTS either.
That said, I haven't tried this yet:

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Inventory.Amount -5
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Post by killingblair »

Graf, did I ever tell you that you rock? :)

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