Creating a combo with a script

[Joe123]

How do I go about doing this? I only really want to apply combo types (autowarp, sens. perm trigger etc) to the tile below link (well, to anywhere in the case of autowarp), so how would I go about doing this? I couldn't really glean much info from zscript.txt about said topic.

[C-Dawg]

Well, depending on what you want to do, you can do this in two ways.

This script will change the combo of an FFC and stick it below the player:

this_ffc->Data=(whatever_combo_you_want);
this_ffc->X = Link->X;
this_ffc->Y = Link->Y;

If you actually want to draw a combo on the screen, you need to find the number of the screen combo Link is on. (Starts at the top left, counts right). This is not a simple task, but we scripters have developed a routine that does this. Check the Ice_Beam script in Zodiac to see the routine.

[DarkDragon]

Isn't there such a method in std.zh? If not, paste it here and I'll add it.

[C-Dawg]

If there's a method that takes screen coordinates and returns the combo number, I'm not aware of it. We scripted one up.



// ======================================
// Combo Position finder
// Returns the Combo ID of the combo nearest
// to a given x, y coordinate.
// ======================================

int comboPosition(int x, int y){

int remainder = x % 16;
if (remainder <= 8){
x = x - remainder;
}
else{
x = x + 16 - remainder;
}

int remainder_y = y % 16;

if (remainder_y <= 8){
y = y - remainder_y;
}
else{
y = y + 16 - remainder_y;
}
return ((y & 240)+(x>>4));

} // end of comboPosition

[ShadowMancer]

int comboId = Screen->ComboD[ComboAt(int x, int y)]

Would that work just as well?

[Joe123]

Ahhhh thankyou. That command is also useful to know.

Although, in this case, it doesn't really help, because I don't want the player to be able to see the combo.

Unless, if I do that with a combo that's just assigned to an empty tile, will you still see it in ZC?