[hseiken]

Looking at the PUT command, I was looking for what part of the help file has the list of THINGS...as it says to use the command:

PUT [color] [thing] [parameter] [x] [y]

Well, as one form of the PUT command anyway. In the robotic editor, we have keys for character, color and parameter, but not...thing?

So where is the full list of things? I found a few just trying them out, but I suspect some have odd spellings or abbreviations I'll never figure out.

Thanks for any reference that I missed.

(I did try searching the forum, 'list' kept popping up 'listen' and other false positives, and 'things'...well, even more false positives)

[Lachesis]

Hi,

I don't think there's a full list of things in the help file. The closest equivalent is the ID chars/CHANGE CHAR ID table in the Robotic Reference Manual. Usually you can just take a thing name from that table and remove the spaces to get the Robotic equivalent.

edit: the thing menus in the editor also work for this and are a little more convenient from inside of the editor. I will prod Terryn about this.

This post has been edited by Lachesis: 22 October 2024 - 12:51 AM

[hseiken]

Lachesis, on 21 October 2024 - 07:49 PM, said:

Hi,

I don't think there's a full list of things in the help file. The closest equivalent is the ID chars/CHANGE CHAR ID table in the Robotic Reference Manual. Usually you can just take a thing name from that table and remove the spaces to get the Robotic equivalent.

edit: the thing menus in the editor also work for this and are a little more convenient from inside of the editor. I will prod Terryn about this.

Just to be clear on the problem I was encountering was to put a player bullet going the direction I wanted it to be going. As I was browsing the internal help docs (i.e. inside mzx), I saw things like PlayerBullet, PLayershot, etc. and other similar references, so I was trying to put those things even though they were counters and such. I finally found bullet and the parameters select direction and what kind, but it was a fair minute. I think a 'directory of things and their paramaters might be useful for people using the more vanilla functions.

Cheers.

EDIT: One of the things that threw me off was indeed the list of built ins and their reference number that also appears in the EDIT CHAR menu. I think like..'intuitively' (cause it's what I tried), the THING would just be that reference number. I.e. N PLayer Bullet number is 306 but this does not select the thing in the program editor. Maybe that's the real solution? In this case, 306 would turn into Bullet p00?

This post has been edited by hseiken: 22 October 2024 - 03:13 AM