Castle Paradox

Laven Atries · **Starmaster** Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

Okay, after reading the thread about world maps, and some stuff about cities being so small and all that, I decided that my major city could do with some embiggening (yes that is a word, at least according to Jebidiah Springfield Big grin

) And then it hit me that it would be really cool to make a city where you could walk on the streets and also the rooftops. It'd be great for hidden items as well as, say, an escape mission or something. The only problem is that I'm having some problems with figuring out how to make it possible for a person to walk across an archway from the rooftops, but go under it from the street level. If any of you have any ideas on how I might accomplish this, please share them. I'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer me. Thanks!

-Laven Atries
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Uncommon · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:24 am Post subject:

Plotscripting. There are commands to change wallmapping (including whether a tile is overhead or not). I can't give you a script example right now, but I can tell you there is one in Wandering Hamster.

Me · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:25 am Post subject:

Major NPC and plotscripting madskillz.

Set NPCs surrounding your bridge and have them set off a script that changes the wallmap(command: Write Pass Block) and either suspends or enables the overlay(command: Suspend/Resume Overlay). Use tags to determine whether you are on the roof or on the ground.

Something like this should appear in my game The City (don't look for it, there's no demo yet), if I ever finish it.

I hearby copyright this idea. Anyone using it must give me proper credit.
Kidding.
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Me · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:27 am Post subject:

Damn you, Lone Chimaera. You got to it first.

By the way, I agree that your name is spelled correctly.
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Laven Atries · **Starmaster** Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

Cool, I was starting to think in that direction. I'll take those tips and see what I can do with it. But its probably going to be a royal pain trying to get everything perfect for the 4 maps that this city will be composed of. Oh well, a lot of the fun is trying to do things that are hard to do. Now, back to work I go!

-Laven Atries
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Me · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:50 am Post subject:

Hi Ho, Hi Ho.
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Blazes Battles Inc. · **I'm a chimp, not a** Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 505

Uncommon · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:05 am Post subject:

Yeah, that's the command I was referring to, write pass block (x,y,value).

James used it in Wandering Hamster to make it so that the bridge to Ixnelan (sp?) was under you when you walk on it, but over you when you pass it with the boat.

If I had a OHR-worthy computer, I'd write you a sample script, but I don't... Shrug.

MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:20 am Post subject:

Actually, TLC, it's more like this:

Uncommon · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 11:31 pm Post subject:

No.

That script keeps the vehicles where you left them. It would not help you walk over an overhead tile. However, it does trigger a script called "tweak bridges" at the end. That would be the script that I'm referring to.