Pulling Pushblocks

[Joe123]

Wait, assuming that the syntax for what you posted earlier would be:

for(timer = 0; timer < 32; timer++){
	if(movelink){Link->X = Link->X -1;}
	movelink = !movelink;
}

Won't that activate once, then set movelink to false so it won't happen again?

[Praethus]

No. movelink starts as true. Then its get set to not true (! = not) aka false. Then it gets set to not false (! = not again) aka true. ! means set it to not whatever, not set it to false.

[C-Dawg]

Why use the for loop at all? Just put this in your general "while(true)" loop:

linkmoves = !linkmoves;

if(linkmoves){ Link->X = Link->X++;}


That'll execute once and only once each time through the while loop.

[Joe123]

Ohhh, thanks Preathus.
However, if I do it like that I can't then only have Link move every 3 frames or something, so I'll stick to the counter for my current purposes.

And because I want the rest of the script to stop while I use the for loop, makes it less confusing, I have 3 or 4 tiers of if statments or something like that so for means I don't have to worry about the rest of the script while that part's running.

[shadowfall1976]

has any progress been made Joe?, I would love to use this when
you get it done.

[Joe123]

Blimey, I left off on this one months ago.

I'd got it working quite nicely in one direction, but when I duplicated the script for the other directions I ran into endless problems.

There were also quite a few bugs with it, and especially with it's interaction with Beefster's Roll script.

And no-one drew me sprites for DoR Link pulling the blocks in the end aswell, which wasn't great either.

I might well go back and have a look at it again sometime though, it'd definately be worth completing I think.

It will take a long time to re-work it and find out how I was doing it again though, I might well end up re-writing it.

[beefster09]

Hey, do you think it would be possible to make blocks pulled with the hookshot? That would be pretty cool.

[Joe123]

I'd say yes, provided that you re-scripted the hookshot.

[pkmnfrk]

Actually, not necessarily. Remember, the combos that you set on FFCs can have flags (inherent, for sure, maybe regular), and can be triggered. FFCs have a "WasTriggered()" function which indicates this very condition. So, if you make the FFC react to hookshots, then you can have a script like this:

while(this->WasTriggered() == false) {
  Waitframe();
}

if(abs(Link->X - this->X) > abs(Link->Y - this->Y)) {
  //from the top or bottom
  if(Link->Y < this->Y) { //top
    //move me up
  } else {
    //move me down
  }
} else {
  //from the left or right
  if(Link->X < this->X) { //left
    //move me left
  } else {
    //move me right
  }
}

So, this is perfectly viable. The catch is that they can only be pulled once, since I don't think you can reset WasTriggered() anyway.

[Gleeok]

Hey, do you think it would be possible to make blocks pulled with the hookshot? That would be pretty cool.

Hey that's not a bad idea. I'm sure you could get it to pull enemies as well, or, maybe just certain kinds of them set with enemy->Tile. It would probably look stupid reeling in a Gleeok.


Instead of wastriggered() howabout just using is_walkable type functions and let the player pull it around wherever it will fit, untill it triggers something.