Shops and vending machines

[Blane_]

In my game, I wanted to have Shops. Very easy, I know, place a few items, check to see if you have enough points and/or money, and then give the player that item. But what I DON'T know how to do is sell stuff, AND give the player a different amount of points for each item sold.
HELP?

[Goot]

You want the player to sell stuff to the shop? How exactly do you want them to do it?

[TerranRich]

Does this help? http://bfaq.terran-x.com/#guis04

I know it's very brief and short, but you can use an inventory item for the money (like Space Quest IV did).

OR, you could use a separate variable (like a globalint) for the money and display it seperately using status bar labels.
Use of GlobalInts: http://bfaq.terran-x.com/#coding09
Use of Status Bar: http://bfaq.terran-x.com/#guis05

[Blane_]

   Basically, your points run as money. Therefore buying decreases points, which is easy enough. I need a good way to sell stuff to the shop. The problem is getting different amounts of money for each item. It is really hard to go through EVERY game item and set a price.
Is there an easier way???

[TerranRich]

What? So you want a different price for every item? Use variables. Look it up in the manual and the BFAQ.

[Ashen]

Are you talking about buying and selling inventory items? If so, you could create a custom property for each item to set its price, then use something like:

GiveScore (GetInvProperty(player.activeinv, "Price"));

You still have to set the property for every item, but it will save you having to write a different line of script for them.