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Is this complicated? pick up object and increment++

by Sean Brady · in Technical Issues · 02/27/2009 (1:22 pm) · 3 replies

Sorry, my name is Sean Brady and I need to get some advice from the gg community. I trying to create a simple enough mechanism. The sequence of actions are as follows;

- player enters world
- player collects 3 items
- registers on gui

(Note: I got a rough version of the level up to here done using the 'getting started' pdf helper thing but anytime I go back to the main menu and load the mission again the gui control = 3, i need it to go back to 0 at the mission end automatically)

- if object count = 3 then next level loads

help please!???!????

Sean
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Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#1
02/27/2009 (8:14 pm)
If your objects are items, torque will already keep track of it.

In your items script, you would add a function to place the number on the screen thru a gui.
You would also need to code a check to see if the number of items is =3 and if true, switch missions.

Go into server/scripts/ and make a copy of item.cs and rename it to something that is realitive to your objects.

If you look thru the code, you'll find "function ItemData::onPickup"
You'll see where torque already adds a comment on the screen when you pick up an object. You would change this to put the number up.
// Inform the client what they got.
   if (%user.client)
      messageClient(%user.client, 'MsgItemPickup', '\c0You picked up %1', %this.pickupName);
Just above that code is this code:
%count = %obj.count;
   if (%count $= "")
      if (%this.maxInventory !$= "") {
         if (!(%count = %this.maxInventory))
            return; // Change this to start your next mission. ( cycleGame(); )
      }
      else
Hope that helps you.


Torque Owner Sean Brady
Plasis Games
#2
02/28/2009 (4:36 am)
Thanks Mike Rowley. That's really helps alot thank you.

Sean :)

Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#3
02/28/2009 (4:35 pm)
You're welcome. That's what the GG community is all about.