thanks for the info Lfying Lizard
I have runned into a problem with my research stuff.
I have made the code smallere so it should run faster and I used the event function like Flying Lizard told me aboud.
when I start the game I only get an error saying:
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Invalid GAME Property 'if (($combiwoodarrow'
My research code looks like this:
NOTE The dots is not in my original code, this is just to tap them in this code box 
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on:doresearch {
. . . .if ($researchinprogress == 0) {
. . . . . .$tmp=getplayerweapon();
. . . . . .$tmp2=skillvalue("research");
. . . . . .$tmp3=count_stored("unit",1,$tmp);
. . . . . .$tmp4=skillvalue("alchemy");
. . . . . .if (($tmp > 0) && ($tmp3 > 0)) {
. . . . . . . . .if ($tmp2 < 75) {
. . . . . . . . . . . .if ($tmp2 >= 50) { $tmp2=$tmp2+random(0,7); }
. . . . . . . . . . . .elseif ($tmp2 >= 25) { $tmp2=$tmp2+random(-2,5); }
. . . . . . . . . . . .else { $tmp2=$tmp2+random(-5,0); }
. . . . . . . . . . . .$restime=5000;
. . . . . . . . . . . .if ($tmp == 24) { event "resbranch1","global"; } //Branch
. . . . . . . . . . . .elseif ($tmp == 57) { event "resfeather1","global"; } //Feather
. . . . . . . . . . . .elseif ($tmp == 21) { event "respebbles1","global"; } //Pebbles
The events looks like this:
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on:resbranch1 {
. . . $cbr = 0;
//Wooden Arrow
. . . if (($combiwoodarrow == 0) && ($tmp2 >= 0)) {
. . . . . . .unlockcombi "woodenarrow";
. . . . . . .$combiwoodarrow = 1;
. . . . . . .$ammorecipenr++;
. . . . . . .$cbr++;
. . . }
. . . if ($cbr == 0) {
. . . . . . .process "Researching Branch",$restime,"researchfail25";
. . . . . . .freestored "unit",1,$tmp,1;
. . . . . . .$researchinprogress = 1;
. . . } else {
. . . . . . .process "Researching Branch",$restime,"researchsuccess";
. . . . . . .freestored "unit",1,$tmp,1;
. . . . . . .$researchinprogress = 1;
. . . }
}
it actualy made the same error with the $cbr value.
any clue what is going wrong here ??
Kind regard
Satis
EDIT
LOL Stupid me 
Forgot to input a script=start and script=end command
never mind then Flying Lizard has written
well, I got some big codes too. I worked around bugs like that this way:
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on:keyhit01 {
if (stuff==stuff) {
event "1";
}
else {
event "2";
}
on:1 {
all the big scriptingstuff
}
on:2 {
all the big scriptingstuff
}
Okay after some time fitling with this and convertet all my research functions over to this way, it still run as slow as before. I have made a new file where I added all the new events into and if I remove that file so I cant use the events, it runs alot faster.
It's like it still runs all the events eaven that I'm telling it not to :S
any idear what that could be ??
new question related to this....
I made some checks before runing the item compare, that should skip the rest of the code if that statement is true.
What is the corect function to use to skip the rest of the code, so it wont run it ??
here is the 2 files I'm using, so you guys can have a fully look at them
http://www.satis.dk/files/game_anw_research.inf
http://www.satis.dk/files/game_anw_research_events.inf
//Satis
PS. Sorry for the doubble post Satis has written
What is the corect function to use to skip the rest of the code, so it wont run it ??
skip
For example
I want to react to when the player hit something with his bare hands.
Like for the axe, I want to modify the damage the fists does vs different materials. For instance, I want it to do minimal damage vs wood (because cutting down a tree with bare hands is somewhat strange...)
Only prob is, whatever on: event I try, they never trigger...
What event I must use, and where?
I tried on:hit and on:impact in both units.inf and game.inf. And there is no "hands" section in tools... Ice has written
I want to react to when the player hit something with his bare hands.
Like for the axe, I want to modify the damage the fists does vs different materials. For instance, I want it to do minimal damage vs wood (because cutting down a tree with bare hands is somewhat strange...)
Only prob is, whatever on: event I try, they never trigger...
What event I must use, and where?
I tried on:hit and on:impact in both units.inf and game.inf. And there is no "hands" section in tools...
You'll have to check, whether the player uses a weapon and which material the hit object is made of. For example
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on:hit {
if ((getplayerweapon()==0) && (compare_material("self","wood")==1)) {
msg "Player has no weapon and the material is wood";
}
}
The problem is the "target" is what is right in the middle of the crosshair, while the hitbox is larger.
So the player could still hit a tree while looking a little away, and so the script would not trigger Mc Leaf has written
You'll have to check, whether the player uses a weapon and which material the hit object is made of. For example
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on:hit {
if ((getplayerweapon()==0) && (compare_material("self","wood")==1)) {
msg "Player has no weapon and the material is wood";
}
}
The event will be triggered at the object hit by the player.
The prob is the "on:hit" never trigger... on:hit only works on those items you are trying to hit, so the code should go there.
If you want to have the script in the player script, you should use:
on:attack
//Satis
EDIT
Have anyone checked my source code for my research function and found any lag errors ??
Realy hope some one can help me in my problem.
//Satis edited 1×, last 30.10.07 05:54:10 pm
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ok, I finnaly subscribed, as I have more and more interest in this game and its language.
My goal is to have a more realistic game, a little like the old Robinson Requiem (horribly hard, but still fun!)
For this, I started with small things, like better recipes:
Hammer = stick+stone+cord or vine
Sharp Stone = Stone x2 + hammer
Spear = Stick + Sharp Stone + cord or vine
Crude Axe = stick + Sharp Stone x2 + cord or vine
Then, while thinking about recipes, I thought that it was kinda strange that the player could chop whole trees with his bare hands. So here I am with my little coding problems (still unsolved, as a on_hit event on all tree objects is tedious, and the on_attack event dont give the info I need on the target. The on_impact event give the correct info, but is not happening on bare hands...)
I also thought about a better health system (as the present one is quite... minimal). I would like to implement sickness from drinking still water, from being in bad weather without protection, from being in winter without warm clothes, etc...
I only start coding, and am not installing the other big mods, even if they seems quite interesting. I prefer to start little, with my own code, and I'll add mods when I'll be ready (or I'll quit when I'll be bored... we'll see).
A little comment about the core: is there any way to peek a look to the original code? Not 5 minutes in modding, I tumbled on something quite annoying: that 255 ID limitation... Any way to lift it?
A last thing: as I'm starting only today, I'm still a big noob and know nearly nothing about the scripting and modding. Worse, I dont speak german (only french and english) but hopefully, babelfish is here to help a little. But I work as a proggramer, and I usually learn very well new languages, so I hope I'll be of some use soon; That problem is simple to solve.
Just add following lines to game.inf:
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limit_objects=4000
limit_units=200
limit_items=4000
limit_objects and limit_items can be much higher, but unluckily buildings and units can't be more than 200 I think. Ice User Offline
Satis has written
on:hit only works on those items you are trying to hit, so the code should go there.
If you want to have the script in the player script, you should use:
on:attack
//Satis
EDIT
Have anyone checked my source code for my research function and found any lag errors ??
Realy hope some one can help me in my problem.
//Satis
Funny thing, I'm a delphi coder 
About your problem, could you give more details? When you say it lag, its any time you do a research? Whatever research you do? And the lag is important? One second, two, ten? Ice User Offline
a stupid question (and i'll ask a lot more...): how can I get the value of a variable in execution? I want to know the value of the damage the player does with his hands. I can modify it with player_damage, but how can I "get" it?
Nevermind, I think I found it... I need to experiment a little with those "class" but it should be ok edited 1×, last 30.10.07 09:09:44 pm
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please don't make double posts /Flying Lizard bizzl has written
That problem is simple to solve.
Just add following lines to game.inf:
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limit_objects=4000
limit_units=200
limit_items=4000
limit_objects and limit_items can be much higher, but unluckily buildings and units can't be more than 200 I think.
In Massive Mod those values have been set to:
limit_objects=5000
limit_units=500
limit_items=5000
and it seams to work as well.
Ice has written
Satis has written
on:hit only works on those items you are trying to hit, so the code should go there.
If you want to have the script in the player script, you should use:
on:attack
//Satis
EDIT
Have anyone checked my source code for my research function and found any lag errors ??
Realy hope some one can help me in my problem.
//Satis
Funny thing, I'm a delphi coder
About your problem, could you give more details? When you say it lag, its any time you do a research? Whatever research you do? And the lag is important? One second, two, ten?
Em sure.... read the other postes I made from the start on this problem
my first post aboud this problem is here:
http://www.unrealsoftware.de/forum_posts.php?post=53302&start=160#post63294
oh btw: I'm a delphi programmer too, so I know a litel around codes
//Satis Ice User Offline
I was saying it was funny because I saw your sig :p
For your problem, the lag is not happening when you rename the "game" part in game_anw_research_events.inf
Of course, it doesn't work anymore after that, and I know too little to give you a working solution...
What I can guess is when you call a global event, it search in all "game*.inf" files to find the correct event to trigger. Since you have big files, it lag...
This would explain why you have the lag even with the Use key on land or to plant, since it also call a global event.
Maybe its possible to play with the Loadfile function to load the script you need. I dont know There could be a simple solution:
Move all the research code into an info definition, and add following code to the on:load event in the game.inf:
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I need some help about the "addscript" command.
When translating the info with google, I get:
Addscript "class", ID, "Source"
Categories: objects
Adds a script about a particular object. If this item already has a script, this overwritten (use extendscript a script to an existing script to hang).
Enter at the source of an ID information in order to use the text or a file name to the text from the file to load.
I dont understand the "source" part, wich is quite badly translated, and my few tries are not working. Here is the code:
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$tmp=create("object",240);
addscript "object",$tmp,"anw_research.inf";
msg "test",3;
event doresearch,"object",$tmp;
free "object",$tmp;
the msg dont even show, so I guess the addscript is crashing. Can someone help me?
Edit
Ok, nevermind, I found it. By looking the original code, I found that it needed .s2s files. I changed the file type, and it worked! edited 1×, last 31.10.07 12:13:56 pm
Ice has written
Ok, nevermind, I found it. By looking the original code, I found that it needed .s2s files. I changed the file type, and it worked!
It doesn't explicitly need *.s2s Files, it just has to be a Text file containing S2S-Code, and most *.inf simply doesn't
You should stick to the s2s file-suffix, though
About the Source: You can either, like you found out, load from a file (except for the sound commands, all parameters which can be file names and pathes must be relative to the mods root directory) or from any type of info (e.g. a text container) if you give an integer. Ice User Offline
I have some hard time with the variables.
I want to "give" an object ID to another object, so this one can then call an event with this ID
My first tries with "setlocal" are not working. I get a 0 each time. A little help plz?
Maybe I could explain what I'm doing here.
I'm working on Satis "lag" problem.
So far, I no longer have lag when researching, but in doing so, I broke the end of the research, with the "success!" or "fail" part.
What I did was this: When I hit the key, it create an object, attach to it the main research script, and call its doresearch event. This script also create another object and attach to it a specific script for the object in hand. That way, the research code is broke in many .s2s files, one for each material researchable. Therefore, the code loaded is minimal, and there is no lag at all.
The problem is at the end of the research, the final script call an event in the main script, to conclude the research. But the specific research object dont "know" the ID of the main research one!
And this is where i'm stuck 
edited 1×, last 31.10.07 01:39:44 pm
Ice has written
I have some hard time with the variables.
I want to "give" an object ID to another object, so this one can then call an event with this ID
My first tries with "setlocal" are not working. I get a 0 each time. A little help plz?
You actually should be able to do this via setlocal. Perhaps you tipped something wrong, but without code I can't tell for sure.
But using a global variable is much simpler, anyway. Just use a not so common name, like $ice_id_carrier 
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