I apologize in advance at the newb-tacularness of this query.
Problem is, it's been a few years since I've worn the programmer hat, and I was never that advanced when I was wearing it. I can't seem to recall the correct language to ask for what I want to do beyond ("er I need an IF/THEN but uh, IF what THEN what?" doesn't go over well in the search engine ha ha) which has made looking up the answer myself more difficult than I first thought. I searched the tutorial, poked around these pages, played the demo game, and finally poked around the code in the demo game, but I am still a bit at a loss.
I'm making a two-room exploration game to try to learn the program and get a feel for the scripting. I've got a hotspot that is set to display some text when you talk to it. I've also got an object that you can pick up and use to interact with the hotspot. What I would like to do is set it so that AFTER you use the object on the hotspot, it from then on displays a different message upon being talked to. Can anyone point me where I should be looking for tips on how to code things like that?
Thanks much!
Problem is, it's been a few years since I've worn the programmer hat, and I was never that advanced when I was wearing it. I can't seem to recall the correct language to ask for what I want to do beyond ("er I need an IF/THEN but uh, IF what THEN what?" doesn't go over well in the search engine ha ha) which has made looking up the answer myself more difficult than I first thought. I searched the tutorial, poked around these pages, played the demo game, and finally poked around the code in the demo game, but I am still a bit at a loss.
I'm making a two-room exploration game to try to learn the program and get a feel for the scripting. I've got a hotspot that is set to display some text when you talk to it. I've also got an object that you can pick up and use to interact with the hotspot. What I would like to do is set it so that AFTER you use the object on the hotspot, it from then on displays a different message upon being talked to. Can anyone point me where I should be looking for tips on how to code things like that?
Thanks much!