Xoram's Tower mod

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:01 pm

OK. Tower lvl 3 = completed.
Also monsters are working better now. oh and yes, my party of 4 lvl 1ers just got anhiliated with one swipe. Trying to make this a HIGH lvl quest.

chaney · Post by **chaney** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:23 am

A giant fly? Is Jeff Goldblum's pic going to represent said creature?

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:48 am

How did you know?? No not really. A nice closeup one of those annoying bugs though.

Rickstavern · Post by **Rickstavern** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:29 pm

I have new monsters and items source for you. The text files are in the unofficial patch.

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:47 am

awesome! now we can fight some ghost dragons.

thanx

Growler · Post by **Growler** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:15 pm

dragonbait wrote:How did you know?? No not really. A nice closeup one of those annoying bugs though.

Waiter!

There's a huge killa fly in my soup!

chaney · Post by **chaney** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:23 am

For ewe...No charge!

chaney · Post by **chaney** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:49 am

There hasn't been a progress report in a while. Any progress?

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:14 pm

chaney · Post by **chaney** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:42 pm

Any progress?

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:53 pm

not much but I did update to Rickstaverns new patch, then re-input my pictures into the picindex. I'm including some battles with some ghost dragons. Currently creating more monsters. Previously I was creating a unique battle for each room/area that I wanted a fight to occur. This process just got to be excrutiatingly painful after a while, hence my going MIA this past month or so. Now I'm creating more monsters so that I can generate a few general scripts that I will place in multiple instances. I have a 30ish by 30ish map that still needs filler.

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:55 pm

oh and there will be hellhounds

chaney · Post by **chaney** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:01 am

Cool!

dragonbait · Post by **dragonbait** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:50 pm

Ack! I thought I could create a battle script and place that one script it in multiple locations, but after I fight one battle the rest of the other battles instances won't show up because the script has returned to 1.

Is there a way to make a battle script that is usable more than once. Here's a sample battle script I have.

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# xt foot soldiers1
from eventAPI import *
from APIUtils import *

xtfs1=0

def fireEvent&#40;e&#41;&#58;
   global xtfs1
   xtfs1 = getTag&#40;e, "xtfs1"&#41;
   if &#40;xtfs1 == 1&#41;&#58;
      return 1
   else&#58;
      showMessage&#40;e, &#91;"Xoram's Foot Soldiers!!!."&#93;&#41;
      fightThem&#40;e&#41;


def fightThem&#40;e&#41;&#58;
   combatRet = combat&#40;e, &#91;&#40;"Xoram's Foot Soldier", 10, 10, 10&#41;&#93;&#41;
   if &#40;combatRet == 1&#41;&#58;
      wonFight&#40;e&#41;
   elif &#40;combatRet == 3&#41;&#58;
      lostFight&#40;e&#41;
   else&#58;
      ranAwayFight&#40;e&#41;

def wonFight&#40;e&#41;&#58;
   global xtfs1
   showMessage&#40;e, &#91;"You beat them sensless."&#93;&#41;
   xtfs1 = 1
   setTag&#40;e, "xtfs1", xtfs1&#41;

def lostFight&#40;e&#41;&#58;
   showMessage&#40;e, &#91;"The monsters rejoice at your demise."&#93;&#41;

def ranAwayFight&#40;e&#41;&#58;
   showMessage&#40;e, &#91;"You can't escape."&#93;&#41;
   xtfs1&#40;e&#41;

I know I could just copy this script multiple times and change the xtfs1 to xtfs2, xtfs3, xtfs4 etc., but is there another way of doing this?

origen · Post by **origen** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:20 pm

Yes you can, as most of my battles were scripted to happen randomly. If you want to use it repeatedly, you can probably just remove the get tag and set tag scripts.

I set mine up similar to the Guard attacks (or townsperson attacks, depending on the path you took)

Look at those scripts, and see if that leads you in the right direction. I haven't scripted in so long, I don't want to lead you astray.