Castle Paradox

[KainMinter]

I have been making a custom menu for my game, and I wanted to include the player's "Gil"(Money) at the bottom in the main menu. Problem is, I haven't been able to figure out if there is a plot scripting command or constant that references the current amount of money on hand.

Any one have any advice for me?

[Iblis]

I think you could use "pay money" to check how much gold you have. You could use a loop and keep incrementing how much it's checking for and then stop when the command returns false. Or you could start at 32767 decrement the value until it returns true. Once you're done you use "get money" to give yourself back what you just paid

To get around the 32767 limit, you'd have to have multiple loops. If it went all the way to 32767 in the first loop you could start a second loop and keep the result from that in a separate variable, then when it's done you can get the money from both variables.

I dunno how long it would take to calculate it if you had a really huge amount of money, it might be too slow.

[Guest]

thats still better than nothing... thanks man ^^

I'll give that a shot and hope for the best.


I've also just realized there is no way to look up exp or exp to next level... could you tell me if you know any way around that?

[KainMinter]

Oops. didnt realize I wasnt logged in.. -_-

[TMC]

No, there is no way to return exp.

See, both exp required and money are values that are potentially greater than 32767, so they are stored in a 32 bit integers, which plotscripting can't handle. So such functions are ommited from the language.


And theres no way around it, other then painfully running an instead of battle script for every battle and hard coding in the amount of experience to be gained and subtracting from total required for every hero (emulating 32 bit integer math) after dividing by the number of heros left alive afterwards and whether or not they ran...
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[Aethereal]

Hmm...maybe I should write a checkmoney() function for the plotscripting command library. Y'know what, I'll do that when I get home.
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[KainMinter]

actually, that does make a lot of sense.I'll atempt to write a money script for my menu also then, that returns the each place up to 100,000s and probably set the gil to max out at either 250,000 or 999,999, depending on lag time when loading up the menu. If its still too slow loading with a 250,000 max, then I'll just have to give up on the idea of having the gil there all together I guess =\

Itd be nice to replace that 0 next to the gil.

[RPGCreations]

[KainMinter]

ooh, thats neat to know about the 3rd party plot scripting commands.

can you tell me anything about this one? (Found in the same list you pointed out.)

digit(num,digit)
Returns a digit in num


I have a feeling that i can reduce the length of my code drastically if this is what I think it is ^o^ *

[RPGCreations]

Yep. It'll return the nth digit in a number, so if you do


digit(1456,3)

it will return 5.


posting from work
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[TMC]

Actually, it starts counting digits from the right of the number, first digit is digit one -

digit(1456,3) will return 4, and
digit(12345,4) is 2.

Also, if you pass it a negative number, it'll return the digit correctly, but negative.
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[KainMinter]

Holy crap thank you ^o^!!!

That is very awsome! Thanks for explaining it.

[RPGCreations]

Silly me. I was thinking of the number as an array.

Oh, and TMC, please PM me your Third Party HSI update to me on here or CPX, thanks.
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