Defining Character Stats

[pleasuresuitpete]

Hi Guys,

What's the best way to define some statistics about a character?

CharacterA (Stat1,Stat2,Stat3,Stat4);

I want to be able to set the statistics / values independantly and read them independantly.

CharacterA (Stat1 == 1);

If CharacterA (Stat1 == 1) do this

Also, if each character can have their own inventory, how can I check to see if they have a specific item?

Many Thanks

Pete

[Joseph DiPerla]

Hi PSP!

Have you checked out the section about properties in the manual? I think that may give you the answer you may need.

Sorry if this wasn't helpful, and if it was, glad to help.

JD

[Pumaman]

What's the best way to define some statistics about a character?

Do you just want to have stats about the player character, or for lots of different characters? If it's just the one, you can have variables, eg:

int stat1, stat2, stat3;

which contain the various information. If it's for all character, you can use arrays:

int stat1[150], stat2[150], stat3[150];

then access them using the character ID, for example:

stat1[EGO] = 54;

Also, if each character can have their own inventory, how can I check to see if they have a specific item?

if (character[CHARID].inv[INV_NUMBER]) {
 // they have the item
}

[pleasuresuitpete]

Thanks JD,

Properties?  Hmm, they look new!  I'll have to sit down and have a play with them.

Chris,

It would be for lots of different characters.  to store whether they had gone to jail, or how much money that had collected - would your suggestion still work if I defined an int in the global script for each character?

CharacterA jail[1], headcount[2], money[200];
CharacterB jail[1], headcount[2], money[200];

Which I can then affect directly

jail[CHARA] = 0;
money[CHARB] = 200;

Thanks for the inventory tip, it's been a while since I sat down for some hardcore AGS, and I'm a little rusty.

Pete

[Pumaman]

I think you're misunderstanding how arrays work.

You need to define:
int jail[150], headcount[150], money[150];

that assumes that you have a maximum of 150 characters - if you have more, you'd need to increase those numbers.

Then, yes you can do:

jail[CHARA] = 0;
money[CHARB] = 200;

[pleasuresuitpete]

You're correct Chris, I'd gotten the complete wrong end of the stick (or array)  

So I define my ints by first setting a size for the array, in your example 150 for each of the three values.

Then I place a value in the array by calling the int, followed by a unique tag for that item, followed by the value.  If I tried to put more than 150 values in your array I would loose the first value?

Is there a simple way to view the values within the array?

Thanks for your help, this is a big step up from NewRoomEx and globalints, but I'm determined to take it - can anyone reccommed any examples within AGS?

Pete

[Hollister Man]

You mean ALL the values at the same time?  You'd want to construct a while loop.

Otherwise, Display("%d", jail[EGO])

[Pumaman]

Then I place a value in the array by calling the int, followed by a unique tag for that item, followed by the value.  If I tried to put more than 150 values in your array I would loose the first value?

Declaring this:

int jail[150];

creates an array with 150 slots for you to use.

The use of character names confuses the issue a bit because they actually map to numbers - so ignore that for now.

So if you do:

jail[30] = 1;

you set the 30th slot in the array to 1. You can use each slot just like any other variable, for example

if (jail[56] == 1) {
}

or

Display("%d", jail[60]);

If you write to the same slot twice, you overwrite the previous value, just like any other variable. Do not try and access a slot number above the size of the array, or AGS will crash. ie do NOT do this:

jail[466] = 2;

it will produce undesirable results.

[pleasuresuitpete]

Brilliant Chris, thanks for your help.

I do believe I might have finally got this (huge sigh of relief from the audience).

Back to my coding hole I go!

Pete