Castle Paradox

MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject: read/write general

If you've ever looked through plotscr.hsd, you'll notice there are several things there that look confusing. Anyways, the main thing I'm talking about is read/write general(obviously).
in plotscr.hsd, go to the read/writegeneral wrappers.
...or jsut look at this

Machu · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject:

Hmm... I don't quite know the proper terminology here, but I'd say that read general and write general are huge methods that alter the "general game data" depending on the first argument. Argument 3 is the victory music, 42 is the death script, 57 is the load script, and 101 is the bitsets, and the wrapper includes the math to identify each bit. Just as we use "import scancode" so we can say key:esc instead of its exact number, all of the wrapper methods let us refer to general data without knowing their exact numbers.
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MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject:

obviously, but i'm looking for a 'dictionary' of what every argument means.

Cube · **Dimensional Traveller** Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 294

I played with it one day, and I managed to find things like the starting map number, x, y, starting money and so forth. Very interesting. If James were to show which numbers retrieved what, we might be able to make some pretty nifty things with the command (Like, finding what music plays on which map. I've had times where I wish I could obtain the song number from one map and then play it on a different one).

MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:48 pm Post subject:

yeah. i want to have a way to modify how some maps work. Like, changing if it's a wraparound,etc.

junahu · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:23 am Post subject:

well, we can either go ask paige directly, or try to figure this out for ourselves.

Neutral

But what would we do with such power except abbuse it?
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TMC · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:35 am Post subject:

I don't know if there if a descriction of the contents of the general game data array anyway, but if there is, it would probably be James Paige's.

The only use I've seen from anyone so far for it was manipulation/reading of time by Tarot Masters scripts. (They're in FyreWulffs library)
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: General Game Data

Here is a description of the general game data info extracted from my messy documentation:

Machu · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject:

Ya think that's messy? Metal Slug F's HSS is over 800 lines and I haven't even implemented turns yet!
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TMC · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 2:42 am Post subject:

Awww... 800 lines isn't that much. You can easily write that much and not have a speck of gameplay or user interface scripted in...

Hurray! A list! Seems that besides the time functions, there is little else of value to be gained, though :/
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MultiColoredWizard · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 2:58 am Post subject:

So there is a way to change the victory music!
What about editing inside those bitsets? How would you do that?

Flamer · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 3:28 am Post subject:

wow, this looks very interesting...
maybe we could use this in some way??
or is it a bit risky/troublesome, to be using this?
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TMC · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:16 am Post subject:

Looks like I spoke too soon... I tried it out, and you can indeed change the victory music with that.

I also tried out changing the title screen music, starting co-ords, etc, but they don't carry over. A pity... we could have had New Game+'s

What do you mean editting those bitsets? The general bitsets in element 101? Use the functions James wrote. As for changing any of the values in that array, use write general.
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Guest · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:19 am Post subject:

a general bitset setting script

define script(autonumber,set bitset,2,0,0)
script,set bitset,bitset,bit,begin
if(bit) then(bit:=2^bitset)
write general(101,(read general(101),and,(32767 -- 2^bitset))+bit)
end

here's what arguments it takes

bitsets 0-10
0-8 already have their own scripts.
I forgot what 9 was
10 is permit double triggering of scripts (useful)
bit 1 or 0

junahu · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:21 am Post subject:

whoops! Forgot to login first... oh well.

edit: Plus it was irrelevent to what anyone wanted to know.

I was kind of hoping that new game script would carry over into new games.
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