Castle Paradox

RedMaverickZero · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject: Swapping out automatically

I have a feature in my game in which it needs there to only be two heroes at all times. However, my supposed simple script, isn't working.
Here's the script I used.

script, twoteamparty,begin
swap out hero (hero by rank (2))
swap out hero (hero by rank (3))
end

By the way it's an On Key Press script.
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Moogle1 · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:14 am Post subject:

What does happen? Anything?

Without knowing more about your problem, here's my advice:

* You should check how many people are in the party before you perform the swaps. (room in active party should return 0 or 1 to indicate that there are 3 or 4 heroes in the party.)

* Don't try to swap out empty hero slots. I'm not really sure what that would do. (hero by slot returns -1 for an empty slot.)

* Make sure the heroes aren't locked. (Duh.) Remember that the player can still change the party position of locked heroes.
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RedMaverickZero · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject:

I sort of experiment, by moving one of the 2 heroes into the 3rd slot or the 4th slot and nothing happens. It's just the same as a normal system. Do you think perphaps if there were more than 2 heroes this would be any different?
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Moogle1 · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject:

You haven't tried it with more than two heroes? That's your problem, kid.

TMC · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:

Notice that 'hero by rank' returns the nth person in the caterpillar- no matter where the two heros actually in the first 4 slots, they will only fill slots 0 and 1 in the caterpillar.

Prehaps you wanted 'hero by slot', not 'hero by rank'
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Moogle1 · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:43 pm Post subject:

Actually, even though he probably meant "hero by slot," "hero by rank" really does work better for his purposes.
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TMC · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:56 pm Post subject:

Not if he wants his heroes in the first two physical slots, rather than the first two caterpillar slots.
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RedMaverickZero · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject:

I have to work now (I am probally late) but I will try that whenever I get home and get back to you guys on it. And to Moogle, I only haven't used three heroes yet because I haven't programmed the scene quite yet. Heh.
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RedMaverickZero · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:10 pm Post subject:

It worked! Thank you so much, I am so very appreciative!
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