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Jim Aikin
PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:14 pm 
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Hardwater wrote:
And now for Question #....what am at, 5 now? How many do I get before the interactive fiction community bans me for life? 4? :)

You'll find that folks in this community are extraordinarily willing to respond to questions. Inform 7 is not a simple system, so newcomers often need help getting their brains wrapped around it. Even the more experienced users (except Zarf and Emily) have questions from time to time.
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Hardwater
PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:51 pm 
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Juhana wrote:
You need a bit of math for the "every X turns" thing.

Code:
Every turn when the remainder after dividing the turn count by 5 is 0:
   say "Ding!"

You could use a variable or scenes, but this is the one-liner solution.


That's very nice and simple. However, I think I need variables as I need to track each character individually and not have them all speak at once.

Here is my broken code below, as I attempt to wrap my head around assigning a variable to characters, searching through them all, and altering that variable.

Code:
Anders has a number called babble.

Every turn:
   repeat with temp running through people who are not the player:
      [somehow check to see if the player can see the temp character]
            increase the babble [temp] by 1;
            [if the babble temp is 4 then]:
                  [say a random phrase];
                  [reset the temp's babble to 0].


Am I on the right track here?


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NYKevin
PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:31 pm 
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Hardwater wrote:
Here is my broken code below, as I attempt to wrap my head around assigning a variable to characters, searching through them all, and altering that variable.

Code:
Anders has a number called babble.

Every turn:
   repeat with temp running through people who are not the player:
      [somehow check to see if the player can see the temp character]
            increase the babble [temp] by 1;
            [if the babble temp is 4 then]:
                  [say a random phrase];
                  [reset the temp's babble to 0].


Am I on the right track here?


Tom / Hardwater


You can just write this:
Code:
If the player can see temp:


You probably also want to write this, instead of making it specific to Anders:
Code:
A person has a number called babble.
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Felix Larsson
PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:02 pm 
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Here's a pretty flexible variant.
Code:
The Place is a room.
Igbut is a person in place.
A person has a number called babble. The babble of a person is usually 4.
A person has a text called gibberish.
The gibberish of a person is usually "[one of]Fee![or]Fie![or]Foo![or]Fum![at random]".
The gibberish of the player is "[one of]Hic.[or]Haec.[or]Hoc.[purely at random]".
The babble of the player is 5.

Every turn:
   repeat with chatter running through persons:
      if the remainder after dividing the turn count by the babble of the chatter is 0 and the chatter is visible:
         say the gibberish of the chatter.

Test me with "z / z / z / z / z / z / z / z / z / z / z / z".

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:56 pm 
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Jim Aikin wrote:
You'll find that folks in this community are extraordinarily willing to respond to questions.


Perhaps too willing! :)

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Hardwater
PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:40 pm 
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Thank you so much.

I've got different characters up and running saying all sorts of things right when they're met and then every few turns after that. I'm slowly forcing Inform into my head.


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Juhana
PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:40 pm 
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Hardwater wrote:
Juhana wrote:
Code:
Every turn when the remainder after dividing the turn count by 5 is 0:
   say "Ding!"


That's very nice and simple. However, I think I need variables as I need to track each character individually and not have them all speak at once.

You can phase it by changing the remainder:

Code:
Every turn when the remainder after dividing the turn count by 5 is 0:
   say "Ding!"

Every turn when the remainder after dividing the turn count by 5 is 1:
   say "Dong!"

Every turn when the remainder after dividing the turn count by 5 is 2:
   say "Bing!"

But yes, you get more flexibility using other methods.

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katz
PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:47 am 
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Here is a way to do it without any math. Each player "says" something every turn, but most of the time the statement they say is nothing ("run paragraph on" keeps it from printing extraneous line breaks):

Code:
The place is a room.

Igbut is a person in the place.
A person has a text called gibberish.
The gibberish of a person is usually "[one of][gib1][or][run paragraph on][or][run paragraph on][or][run paragraph on][cycling]".
The gibberish of the player is "[one of][gib2][or][run paragraph on][or][run paragraph on][or][run paragraph on][or][run paragraph on][cycling]".

To say gib1:
   say "[one of]Fee![or]Fie![or]Foo![or]Fum![at random]".
   
To say gib2:
   say "[one of]Hic.[or]Haec.[or]Hoc.[purely at random]".

Every turn:
   repeat with chatter running through persons:
      say the gibberish of the chatter.


To change on which particular turn the character speaks, swap the [gib1] text token with one of the [run paragraph on] tokens. If you'd rather they say something one random turn out of 5 (or however many) rather than every fifth turn, replace "cycling" with "at random".
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NYKevin
PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:14 pm 
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katz wrote:
To change on which particular turn the character speaks, swap the [gib1] text token with one of the [run paragraph on] tokens. If you'd rather they say something one random turn out of 5 (or however many) rather than every fifth turn, replace "cycling" with "at random".

As a matter of personal preference, I'd use "in random order" instead of "at random". That way, you always get it exactly once every 5 turns (instead of once every 5 turns on average), although when in those 5 turns is unpredictable. On the other hand, "at random" ensures you won't get the same output printed twice in a row, which "in random order" does not guarantee (although it is somewhat unlikely, at least).
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Hardwater
PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:30 pm 
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Is there a method to combine multiple Insteads?

I have a Flight Stick object that I don't want to be pushed, pulled, or new action: grabbed.

Code:
Instead of pulling flight stick:
   say "no".


Do I write three separate versions of the code above or can the actions be combined with some sort of Understand that is specific only to flight stick?


Thanks,

Tom / Hardwater
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