Using Parameters & Variables tut

[Marked]

Using Parameters with Variables.

This is a very simple tutorial that shows you how to something, when one of your actors parameters is high enough.

For this tutorial, we will be using the actors strength and moving an object when an Actors strength is high enough.

Make a new event somewhere and name it boulder. Set the graphic to one of the rocks.
Now select the command “Control variables”
In variables, select single, and select a variable and name it “Boulder.”
In Operation, select “Set”
In Operand select “Actor” and in drop down box, select the actor you want to be able to move the boulder, usually you select the main character. In the last drop down box is all the actors parameters, this is the main bit of the tutorial, showing you what you can use. Select “STR” and click OK
This is what it will look like.


Now select the command “Conditional Branch”
In tab 1, select “Variable” and chose “boulder” below that in the drop down box, select “Greater than or equal to” and in constant, you select the amount of strength you want your actor to have in able to move the boulder. Type in “100” and click OK.
It should look like this:


Now inside the conditional branch(above “else”) select the command “Set move route” In the first drop down box, select “This Event” Then from all the side commands, select “Play SE” and select “129-Earth01” Now in the side commands, select “Move away from player” and select OK.
It should look like this:


Now again in the conditional branch under “Else” Select the command “Show Text” and type in something like “You don’t have enough strength to move this boulder” or you could play an SE or something that shows you cannot move the boulder. The whole thing should now look like this:


That’s it, you will need to make another event to test it though. Remember there is more you can do than use strength, you can use all of the parameters. Like intelligence, you cannot participate in a quiz in your game because your intelligence is not X amount or higher. There are many possibilities.

I have both a demo and .PDF, are they nessecary??
Anyway, this is a good tutorial, you will learn heaps in it, hopefully.

[SCMike]

Cool, I do this stuff, too. I have one spot where it checks to see if the player's gold is high enough, and, if not, then the player can't go further.

[Marked]

yes, but thats different to what this tutorial uses, because for with the gold, you do not use parameters or variables, you just use a conditional branch. This is kind of going further with that kind of thing.

[Blazinks]

Neat! I will so come back to this!

[SCMike]

This is true, however, I use a variable conditional branch for gold, because I usually have the gold being shown some in some other section. Like in my SSE for demo v2, if you don't have the 25,000 Lirith, it comes up and says "You did not collect 25,000 Lirith, you only collected \v[48] much."

[Marked]

I see, thats much better. Isn't there some other syntax that brings up the gold you have? Dont know, so is the tut useful. Hopefully it made some people realise what you can do with the command control variables.

[SCMike]

yeah, there is the \g (or is it /g?) command, but that loads it up in a new window at the top of the screen. The way I do it, is so that it is just right in the window, so the player can see they failed to collect the correct amount Like in the demo, if you didn't collect 25,000 Lirith, it tells you how much you did collect, and then closes it down.

[Blazinks]

It's, \g
I would know cause i did...
/n[1] and it showed the message as,

""/name[n[2]] So /n[1], where are we heading?""

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