[RyanThunder]

Any alternatives besides having the global robot check with a max lives counter?

[Dr Lancer-X]

<RyanThunder> How do I do X?
<Terryn> You can't do X.
<RyanThunder> Yeah, but how do I do X?

[RyanThunder]

Nevermind.

[CJA]

Lancer-X I'm truly disappointed

you have to be on drugs or asleep or something. this just isn't you!

set "maxlives" 7
: "lifechex"
wait 1
if "lives" <= "maxlives" "lifechex"
set "lives" "maxlives"
goto "lifechex"

RyanThunder don't let his grating nuances get all over your vac!

Also, give yourself a cool member title, you can when you have 100 posts.

This post has been edited by CJA: 15 September 2007 - 11:00 PM

[Dr Lancer-X]

No, it was the phrasing of the question:
"Any alternatives besides having the global robot check with a max lives counter?"

(i.e. the code you just wrote)
Why does he want an alternative to that? What's wrong with that?

The only alternative would clearly have to be functionality built into MZX--which, as Terryn already said, didn't exist.

[CJA]

The, uh.

[RyanThunder]

I was only asking if there was any alternative. But, whatever, it's no big deal. That code'll do just fine.

[FSleeper]

What command would tell me when my robot has been shot, then increase a counter by x? Trying to get accuracy into a game I'm making.

[Lachesis]

FSleeper, on Oct 28 2007, 08:10 AM, said:

What command would tell me when my robot has been shot, then increase a counter by x? Trying to get accuracy into a game I'm making.

: "shot"
inc "counter" "x"
* "you shot me, you distinguished black fellow D:>"
end

[FSleeper]

thanks!

[Genrok]

Is there a command or counter or something that will let you change the name of a robot in-game?

[Hoof]

A line that has ."@robotname" will change the robot's name to "robotname"

it's like a comment line with an @ before the string

This post has been edited by Hoof: 04 December 2007 - 02:28 AM

[Genrok]

All right. Thanks so much!

[MZX Guy]

How do you do the little foot animation from Cans that happens when the player walks?

[Lachesis]

MZX Guy, on Feb 15 2008, 07:08 PM, said:

How do you do the little foot animation from Cans that happens when the player walks?

: "l"
wait 1
set "frame" to "('frame'+1%4)"
set "pressed" to "('key72'o'key75'o'key77'o'key80')"
goto "frame_&playerfacedir&_('frame'*'pressed')"

:frame_0_0
:frame_0_2
. "facing north, standing frame/walking frame 0 and 2
char edit 'X' x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
goto l
:frame_0_1
. "facing north, walking frame 1 (left foot forward, right foot back)
char edit 'X' x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
goto l
:frame_0_1
. "facing north, walking frame 3 (right foot forward, left foot back)
char edit 'X' x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
goto l

.do the same for the other facedirs :P

May be confusing for a beginner, though.

[MZX Guy]

Is there a command to make it to where when the the player touches a robot, it saves the game up to that point?

[FuriKuri]

: "TOUCH"
set "(name of file to save to).sav" "save_game"

This will save a file of the game, and you can load it up again with:

set "(name of file saved).sav" "load_game"

This post has been edited by FuriKuri: 29 February 2008 - 09:25 PM

[MZX Guy]

Thank you.

[MZX Guy]

What's the coding to play a sound effect when the player shoots?

[Terryn]

Assuming you mean default shooting, it's not a command. You press Alt+F to edit the list of sound effects and edit the line corresponding to "Shoot". To make it play a wav/ogg sound effect at its natural frequency whenever the player shoots, put &SHOOTSOUND.WAV& in the blank (replace SHOOTSOUND.WAV with the name of the file you want to play, naturally).

[MZX Guy]

Terryn, on Jun 30 2008, 03:34 AM, said:

Assuming you mean default shooting, it's not a command. You press Alt+F to edit the list of sound effects and edit the line corresponding to "Shoot". To make it play a wav/ogg sound effect at its natural frequency whenever the player shoots, put &SHOOTSOUND.WAV& in the blank (replace SHOOTSOUND.WAV with the name of the file you want to play, naturally).

How didn't I think of this

[StarbladeEnkai]

Is there an easy way to make a sprite directly from the vlayer?

So far I've had to do this:

copy bock #vx #vy w h bx by
set sprn_refx bx
set sprn_refy by
set sprn_width w
set sprn_height h
put c?? Sprite pn posx posy

There's got to be a better way!

[Wervyn]

There is. The command you're searching for is "set "spr#_vlayer" to 1". An oversight in the development means that there's not a similar way to link the sprite from the overlay, and it's still never been added. But this should be enough for your purposes.

"Ogres are not like parfaits. Ogres are like onions."

[StarbladeEnkai]

How do I turn a sprite that's been turned off back on?

[Wervyn]

You just put it somewhere again. The values for the sprite counters don't change when you turn it off, it just doesn't appear on the board or collide with anything. So, put c?? Sprite "spritenum" at "x" "y".

"And it also makes a great paperweight."

[Scarmiglione Malebolge]

Hello. I'd like to put a sprite in SMZX, but it changes all the ref chars when I put it in. I want ... all the char 32's ... OUT -- not out of the collision box -- I don't want to see them at all.

[T-Bone]

A sprite that's already been designed in the normal standard MZX mode?

[Koji]

Scarmiglione,

char 32 which are the space character are always ignored when copying the sprite graphic from the reference location to the destination, if you modify the reference location the sprite graphic will be altered. I don't know enough about your problem to be of any more help.

As for doing this in SMZX those rules are the same, however making graphics in SMZX is a bit more involved than normal mzx graphics... I suggest you first practice working with sprites and SMZX independently at first.

[Great Knight]

Hi everyone, how do you make copies of a Robot and then place them at a certain location? For example, let's say I have created a Robot called Demon that launches Robots called Fireball. If I want the Demon to launch the Fireball I'd copy the Fireball in front of the Demon, and then send a message to Fireball to get it to move away from Demon (and towards the player). Thing is, I don't know the best command to do this. As I know it, the required command is not...

...copyrobot. Because it simply turns Robot A into Robot B. I don't want that.
...duplicate self. I don't want another copy of Demon. I want a copy of Fireball.
...copy # # # #. Well, actually, this works for me, but the Megazeux manual said this is not recommended since it slows down the game.

I've looked at Nytar's Demon Earth game and found that projectile Robots are created using copyrobot, which leaves me scratching my head. I'm afraid I'm stuck. What command should I use?

Great Knight

[Pyro1588]

here's how to do it with duplicate self:

:demon
(insert all your demon code here)
if blocked east goto "demon"
duplicate self east
send east "fireballeast"
wait 1
goto "demon"
:fireballeast
walk east

that's a simple example, but the basic gist is that the robot has both the demon code and the fireball code. when you want it to fire, make sure that it's not blocked and then duplicate the robot in that direction. then you just send the newly-created duplicate to the fireball label. have one fireball label for each direction and there you have it.

make sense?