Using different inventoryitems on Ego

[Mouth for war]

ok this is in the globalscript and no problems here, but AFTER all that scripting i want to be able to use other stuff on the character...on the next screen for example he gets a shovel and if i use that on Ego i want him to say something like "No i can't use that on myself" what should i script? the else if doesn't seem to work...and i'm new to scripting so a little help would be very nice hehe....so...I need help to be able to add more stuff that can be used on my character


function cEgo_UseInv()
{
if(player.ActiveInventory == ibook){
  cEgo.LockView(4);
cEgo.Animate(3, 1, 0, eBlock, eForwards);
cEgo.UnlockView();
  cEgo.FaceLocation(cEgo.x -10, cEgo.y);
  Display("Let's see what we have here");
  cEgo.LockView(4);
cEgo.Animate(3, 1, 0, eBlock, eForwards);
cEgo.UnlockView();
cEgo.FaceLocation(cEgo.x -10, cEgo.y);
  Display ("Hmm...I recognise Grampa's handwriting. He actually managed to translate this");
   cEgo.LockView(4);
cEgo.Animate(3, 1, 0, eBlock, eForwards);
cEgo.UnlockView();
cEgo.FaceLocation(cEgo.x, cEgo.y +10);
  Display ("This spell opens a gate to another world. I've never spoken these words out loud");
  Display ("Who knows what might happen? Whoever's reading this...Be extremely careful");
   cEgo.LockView(4);
cEgo.Animate(3, 1, 0, eBlock, eForwards);
cEgo.UnlockView();
cEgo.FaceLocation(cEgo.x, cEgo.y +10);
  Display ("Ah get real gramps...don't say you actually believed in this?");
  cEgo.Walk(282, 401, eBlock);
  cEgo.FaceLocation(cEgo.x, cEgo.y +10);
  Display ("Here goes nothing");
  Display ("in circulus vitiosus,  abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit");
cEgo.Transparency = 100;
object[3].Visible = true;
PlaySound (4);
object[3].SetView(5, 3);
object[3].Animate(3, 1);
object[3].Visible = false;
Wait (40);
cEgo.LoseInventory(ibook);
cEgo.LoseInventory(iKey);
player.ChangeRoom(2, 200, 580);
}

[thezombiecow]

Hello! Just keep on adding in 'if' statements!

Code: ags

function cEgo_UseInv()
{
   if(player.ActiveInventory == ibook)
   {
    cEgo.Say("You used the book!");
   }

   if(player.ActiveInventory == ishovel)
   {
    cEgo.Say("You used the shovel!");
   }

   if(player.ActiveInventory == iunusualTrousers)
   {
    cEgo.Say("You used the unusual trousers!");
   }

   if(player.ActiveInventory == iwhateverYouWant)
   {
    // whatever, and so on!
   }

}

[Mouth for war]

Ah yeah i tried that before and didn't get it to work...probably missed something. works now. Thanks for the quick reply

[thezombiecow]

You're missing a close bracket } on your original post, that might have something to do with it...

[Trent R]

Related topic: To save space in my global script, I created a function called c_UseInv in a module script. I then passed Character.GetAtScreenXY as the parameter, and put all my interactions in that script.

You could do a similar thing, like this:

Code: ags

//global script
import playerUseInv(InventoryItem *item); //since you'll only use this function here, no need to put the import in the module header
function cEgo_UseInv() {
  playerUseInv(player.ActiveInventory);
}


//module script
function playerUseInv(InventoryItem *item){
  if(player.ActiveInventory == ibook)
  {
  cEgo.Say("You used the book!");
  }
  if(player.ActiveInventory == ishovel)
  {
   cEgo.Say("You used the shovel!");
  }
  if(player.ActiveInventory == iunusualTrousers)
  {
  cEgo.Say("You used the unusual trousers!");
  }
  if(player.ActiveInventory == iwhateverYouWant)
  {
  // whatever, and so on!
  }
}

~Trent
PS-I stole a piece zombiecow's code