Grimrock

This is the way to do stuff!

Where is Skuggasvein and Grimwold? They probably have a few ideas worth considering.

My 3 things off the top of my head:

TRAITS. We want to edit the traits. champ:getTrait() and so forth.

Also, editing the skill descriptions, so that they show added spells. "Earth Magic level 50:new spell" and such.

My wish was for some kind of "fake target"/way of getting monsters attracted to other things than the party. Spawning a fake party entity the monsters move towards, or making them attack eachother, or just distracting them with a thrown rock when invisible. Anything in that fashion would be very useful for emergent gameplay, but I understand it is way out of what we're discussing here, so I'll say letting us add the trait thing!

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geeeesh, my old ide used to do Quick Open File when I pressed ctrl-q, now I'm on Mac and Command-Q quits the ide and I'm hitting it ALL the time when I want to open a new file!

Traits. Hmm...

You're fast!

- Quick one that would be SUPER useful as it would make the timings of scripts irrelevant: elapsedGameTime(): Returns the number of seconds of gameplay since the game started (then if a timer is only ticking every 30 frames, it doesn't matter - as we can use dt).

- Add 'crafts item category' and 'category' to recipes, so I could make a "Scroll Maker Kit" say which can only make items using recipe's with category=scroll.

- An object moveTo(x,y,facing,level) to move objects/the party without having to go through and make a temporary teleporter etc.

Of course, traits would be awesome - but I don't know how you would handle exporting that party into another mod. If you were to lock a party to a mod (or a series of mods with those traits say) then I can think of loads of things you can do. This is beyond my 3, but custom conditions (like paralyzed, poisoned etc) would be awesome... defineCondition { name="giantStrength", onStart=function(champion, duration), onEnd=function(champion, duration) }. However, this would probably require splitting the underlying original strength values from the current strength values for instance (so you can inherantly turn off a condition). Blah, I'm trying to type this fast to fit it in - I'll let you worry about how hard it would be to do .

JohnWordsworth wrote:- Quick one that would be SUPER useful as it would make the timings of scripts irrelevant: elapsedGameTime(): Returns the number of seconds of gameplay since the game started (then if a timer is only ticking every 30 frames, it doesn't matter - as we can use dt).

Yes, for the love of cheese, this. Any way of adding a wait function or similar effect without having to spawn a wait timer would be awesome in so many ways.

OK. Added the following functions: Champion:addTrait(trait, silently), Champion:removeTrait(trait) and Champion:hasTrait(trait). If silently is true, there is no hud print.

I'm sure there are some corner cases that won't work though but I'll leave it for you to figure them out

EDIT: these functions only support built-in traits, custom traits are a lot more work.

petri wrote:OK. Added the following functions: Champion:addTrait(trait, silently), Champion:removeTrait(trait) and Champion:hasTrait(trait). If silently is true, there is no hud print.

I'm sure there are some corner cases that won't work though but I'll leave it for you to figure them out

EDIT: these functions only support built-in traits, custom traits are a lot more work.

As long as I can have 4 guys with Thunderstruck, I'm happy.

flatline wrote:

JohnWordsworth wrote:- Quick one that would be SUPER useful as it would make the timings of scripts irrelevant: elapsedGameTime(): Returns the number of seconds of gameplay since the game started (then if a timer is only ticking every 30 frames, it doesn't matter - as we can use dt).

Yes, for the love of cheese, this. Any way of adding a wait function or similar effect without having to spawn a wait timer would be awesome in so many ways.

Sure, why not! Added getStatistic(statName).

Possible values for statName are: "play_time", "monsters_killed", "items_found", "secrets_found", "treasures_found", "toorum_notes_found", "skulls_found", "grimrock_doors_opened", "tiles_moved", "pit_falls", "melee_attacks", "ranged_attacks", "unarmed_attacks", "rocks_thrown", "spells_cast", "potions_mixed"

So getStatistic("play_time") returns elapsed play time in seconds.