How to script a starting item for the party

[Komag]

ah, I see, didn't know about that crash! But I solved it, just destroy the original item (which is still on the ground) right after giving it to the champion. here is the fixed version:

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party:getChampion(1):insertItem(11,mywelcomescroll)
mywelcomescroll:destroy()
party:getChampion(1):insertItem(7,dagger_1)
dagger_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(2):insertItem(4,leather_boots_1)
leather_boots_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(3):insertItem(5,tattered_cloak_1)
tattered_cloak_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(4):insertItem(5,tattered_cloak_2)
tattered_cloak_2:destroy()
party:getChampion(4):insertItem(8,whitewood_wand_1)
whitewood_wand_1:destroy()

Now you can lay items down, throw, etc, no problem!

[Hermundure]

Nice!

I hate this scripting already, its addictive, you can do so many things with it...

I only wanted to know how to add items to the starting party, now I stumbled across a script which lets random people of your party talk to each other which might add a good bit of atmosphere to the game if implemented right so I think I will bother you guys with silly questions again in the next weeks

Thank you for the help so far

[Komag]

yeah, once you start to get your head around stuff and you see the possibilities, the creativity and really flow!

[petri]

ah, I see, didn't know about that crash! But I solved it, just destroy the original item (which is still on the ground) right after giving it to the champion. here is the fixed version:

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party:getChampion(1):insertItem(11,mywelcomescroll)
mywelcomescroll:destroy()
party:getChampion(1):insertItem(7,dagger_1)
dagger_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(2):insertItem(4,leather_boots_1)
leather_boots_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(3):insertItem(5,tattered_cloak_1)
tattered_cloak_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(4):insertItem(5,tattered_cloak_2)
tattered_cloak_2:destroy()
party:getChampion(4):insertItem(8,whitewood_wand_1)
whitewood_wand_1:destroy()

Now you can lay items down, throw, etc, no problem!

Don't do this. You should never use an entity after it has been destroyed. The correct way is to spawn each item "up in air" i.e. without coordinates and insert into inventory slot.

[Komag]

If I have these items on the floor in a room and I start in that room so I can see them, and I set a timer for a couple seconds, I expected the items to disappear off the floor when they were inserted into the party's hands/packs. But they don't disappear, only a "copy" is placed in the party's hands/packs, which is why I then set the floor versions to be destroyed.

So anyway, I guess the spawning and such is the only good way to do this then. Okay

[petri]

Yeah, unfortunately at the moment there is no clean/correct way to pick up an item from a level and put it to character's inventory. Destroy really means destroy, so the item can't be used after that. The next build will throw an error if you try to use a destroyed entity.

Also, it's illegal to insert the same item into multiple inventory slots. This will cause all sorts of strange issues.

[Komag]

So my version with these items will now be:

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local startScroll = spawn("scroll")
startScroll:setScrollText("This is your wake-up call\nTime to go to work!")
party:getChampion(1):insertItem(11,startScroll)
local startDagger = spawn("dagger")
party:getChampion(1):insertItem(7,startDagger)
local startBoots = spawn("leather_boots")
party:getChampion(2):insertItem(4,startBoots)
local startCloak1 = spawn("tattered_cloak")
party:getChampion(3):insertItem(5,startCloak1)
local startCloak2 = spawn("tattered_cloak")
party:getChampion(4):insertItem(5,startCloak2)
local startWand = spawn("whitewood_wand")
party:getChampion(4):insertItem(8,startWand)

[TheLastOrder]

ah, I see, didn't know about that crash! But I solved it, just destroy the original item (which is still on the ground) right after giving it to the champion. here is the fixed version:

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party:getChampion(1):insertItem(11,mywelcomescroll)
mywelcomescroll:destroy()
party:getChampion(1):insertItem(7,dagger_1)
dagger_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(2):insertItem(4,leather_boots_1)
leather_boots_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(3):insertItem(5,tattered_cloak_1)
tattered_cloak_1:destroy()
party:getChampion(4):insertItem(5,tattered_cloak_2)
tattered_cloak_2:destroy()
party:getChampion(4):insertItem(8,whitewood_wand_1)
whitewood_wand_1:destroy()

Now you can lay items down, throw, etc, no problem!

I didn't knew that possibility

I done that, to solve the same problem about the already exist objects:

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local startClothes = spawn("loincloth")
party:getChampion(1):insertItem(3,startClothes)

Isn't easier???
Thanks!

[Grimwold]

just want to add this here: if you need to spawn an item and give it a specific ID, you can use:

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spawn(spawn_name,nil,nil,nil,nil,spawn_id)

Here we use nil for each of the co-ordinates, so it first spawns the item "up in the air" and there is no issue with a duplicate

e.g.

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party:getChampion(1):insertItem(11,spawn("blueberry_pie",nil,nil,nil,nil,"poisoned_pie"))

Then you can check and see if the champion eats the specific pie called "poisoned_pie", and do something nasty if he does. or any number of other things.

[Komag]

thanks, that info is good to have here