Castle Paradox

[bmp]

Hello again, I have another plea for help and advice.

I had plans for a simple crafting system and I'm just not sure where to begin. Hopefully this wont be a case of a beginner being too ambitious!

The player would find glyphs - items - that will teach them spells. For example if the player found the three glyphs "Fire", "Bolt" and "Area" they could combine the glyphs of "Fire" and "Bolt" to get the glyph "FireBolt" as well as learn the spell "Firebolt". They could then combine the "FireBolt" glyph with the "Area" glyph to learn a "Mass Firebolt" spell

So... Unless I'm mistaken I will have to create a new custom menu that runs a script. Which is the problem as I have no idea where to begin... I've learnt how to call up slices and update them, but have no idea how to implement a menu.

Alternatively, is there a way to handle the combinations without a custom menu - combining the items with each other via the default item menu?

Or perhaps it is possible to handle via textboxes and scripts? But then I would have to think of a way to display the items being combined...


So if anyone can offer any pointers or advice on what to look up or where to start I'd be grateful!

[Nepenthe]

I haven't looked at the default shop stuff in a loooong time, but I'm pretty sure you can trade multiple, different items (your glyphs) for a new item (the spell). Anyone care to confirm?

[TMC]

Yep, shops are the simplest way to do this. You can specify up to 4 different item types, plus cash, that must be traded in to purchase an item.

But it isn't much work to write a script to do the trade in. Then you can attach the script to a textbox or customisable menu (Edit Menus options in Custom, make a menu option call a script), without having to script a fancy menu.

[bmp]

Thanks very much!

I used your script and menu method and it works like a charm!

Here's what I came up with: