Ack, this is confusing. in Developer Help

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Apr 12 2005, 8:41 am (Edited on Apr 12 2005, 9:56 am)
Ok, has anyone played one of the BYOND .Hack games, if so you will know what I'm talking about.

Question: How would you make it to were, if you use the verb PSay, you say the name of a place you wish to go in the text bar, and if that place exists, you get teleported there?


Thanks in Advance.

~C



{Edit}I figure it would involve like a bunch of ifs I think, but, I could make it a input, but I'd much rather have it as a text thing.
#1 Apr 12 2005, 9:58 am (Edited on Apr 12 2005, 11:51 am)
Try this:

First create a list of the places you can go to:

var/list/places = list("City1","City2")


Now we'll first save a variable in PSay() which holds the place we want to go to. Then check to see if our place exists in the list.

mob/verb/PSay(place as text) //declare the variable place
    if(places.Find(place)) //if we found the place in our list.
       *Transportation code*


If you don't have a transportation code, use this simple one(which by the way sucks to be honest).

         if(place=="City1") //if then that place was City1
             usr.loc = locate(1,5,1) //transport to City1
         else if(place=="City2")
             usr.loc = locate(2,10,1) //transport to City2
#2 Apr 12 2005, 9:59 am
In response to DeathAwaitsU (#1)
Thanks, I'll try it out.
#3 Apr 12 2005, 10:03 am
In response to Chwgt (#2)
Ok, I've got that, but there occured to me another problem, I want it were if the obj/Gate is in(oview(1)) the verb PSay() works, if not it doesn't work, but I don't know if that would still be just a in(oview(1)) or done a diffrent way. Could someone please explain.
#4 Apr 12 2005, 10:14 am
In response to DeathAwaitsU (#1)
DeathAwaitsU wrote:
>          if(place=="City1") //if then that place was City1
>              usr.loc = locate(1,5,1) //transport to City1
>          else if(place=="City2")
>              usr.loc = locate(2,10,1) //transport to City2
>

This is very inflexible - if you ever change the map (and you will), suddenly you'll have to redo all of the locations in the code. Not very fun!

Instead, use tags. In the map editor, edit the tag variable of the turf (or area) you want to be the first city and make its value "City1". Same for City2 and the rest of them. Then your teleport code is simply:

usr.loc = locate(place)


See http://bwicki.byond.com/ByondBwicki.dmb?TeleportingMobs for a more complete explanation of this technique.
#5 Apr 12 2005, 10:47 am (Edited on Apr 12 2005, 2:34 pm)
In response to Mike H (#4)
Or, an even quicker way would be:
mob/verb/teleport(T as text)
    for(var/obj/gate/t in oview(src,1))
       t.operate(src,T)
       break
obj
  gate
    proc/operate(mob/M,T as text)
      if(T in warps)
        M.loc=locate(text2path("/area/[ckey(a)]"))
var/list/warps=list("Chicken","Beef","Shrimp","Hell")
area
  chicken
  beef
  shrimp
  hell


I think something like that would work. =/ (Put the areas on the map)
#6 Apr 12 2005, 11:29 am
In response to Chwgt (#3)
Ok, when you use the verb, it wont locate you were it should can someone help?

mob
    verb
        PSay(place as text) //declare the variable place
            if(places.Find(place))
                if(/obj/Gate in oview(1)) //if we found the place in our list.
                    if(place=="Home") //if then that place was City1
                        flick("Gate",usr)
                        sleep(8)
                        usr.loc = locate(11,4,1) //transport to City1
                        flick("Return",usr)
                else
                    return