need room escape coding///

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

Ok, so I am aking a room escape game. I have all my variales and everything. I just need to know some coding for how to make my items in my inventory interact with items in the game, and how to make them GOTTEN from the game. I also need to know how to maker them invisible in my inventory.

THanks a lot.

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

First of all, i need some simple coding for how to make the red diamond in that inventory turn invisible, then be gotten from the ravens red eye.

[Afro-Ninja]

like I said man, it's all about using the boolean variables to represent various states of true and false

give it a try and see what you come up with :)

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

I hav e been man.. thats why i need some help.

I have these movie clips.

gdiamond_mc
gdiamond1_mc

pliers_mc
pliers1_mc

hammer_mc
hammer1_mc

wire_mc
wire1_mc

and son on. So how do i make them Variables? (code plz)

[The-Swain]

Strangely enough, you don't actually "make" movie clips into variables.

[Kart-Man]

At 6/13/08 12:36 AM, FatKidWitAJetPak wrote: and son on. So how do i make them Variables? (code plz)

I'm not quite sure if you know what a variable is. Let's start with that first.

AS: Variables

In escape games, you use a many number of Booleans to check whether you have "gotten" an item or not, so that it can advance the game forward. First you declare the variable:

 var llamaGet:B oolean = false; 

Then, when you acquire something by clicking on it in-game, you change the boolean to 'true' on the click event.

On an enterFrame handler, you need to continuously loop for the variable to see if it is true in order to trigger an event. This is what it would look like inside the handler:

if (llamaGet  == true){
cutScene();
}

Further reading:
Adobe Actionscript Dictionary - Booleans

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

Roght, and do you name the movieclip before the "Get" like hammerGet or gdiamond Get

[Gutya]

No, he just named the Boolean variable 'llamaGet' you could call it 'poop', 'wank' or 'hello'. It's all the same, the names don't matter.

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

I mean i need ghelp understandiong what all that is... T _ T

[Deathcon7]

Read a tutorial buddy. Did you really expect everyone else to hold your hand?

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

At 6/13/08 05:24 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: Read a tutorial buddy. Did you really expect everyone else to hold your hand?

WOW. I have read 3 tutorials "buddy". I followed their directions but the coding never worked out for me. So I go to emailing Afro-ninja about the coding. He says bring the question here. So I did. Jesus are you just saying that for a +1 post?

[DawnOfDusk]

At 6/13/08 05:24 PM, Deathcon7 wrote: Read a tutorial buddy. Did you really expect everyone else to hold your hand?

Well really FKWAJP (yes lol) Although the text makes him seem like he was acting pretty rude, it has some knowledge to it.

In fact, unstead of reading a tutorial, why not just buy a book?
This way you can understand this all alot faster and you won't have to get made at people, which is always a good thing =)

[ElDebugger]

to make movieclips(MC) invisible, you have to turn off their visibility. This is done by setting their "_visible" property to FALSE.

For example, you have a hammer_MC movieclip. If you write:

hammer_MC._visible = false;

...you won't see the hammer MC anymore. It will be invisible. Set the property to TRUE to see it again.
Be careful not to do something silly like use "_invisible" instead of "_visible".

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

Alright!! Those last two posts really helped out. I just remembered I had an old actionscripting book from last christmas. I'll pull that out and use the coding the guy above me just gave me.

Oh and I was also wondering, do you put that coding to make the items invisible in the inventory movie clip, or the frame?

[El-Presidente]

At 6/14/08 12:55 PM, FatKidWitAJetPak wrote: Oh and I was also wondering, do you put that coding to make the items invisible in the inventory movie clip, or the frame?

All depends on the code you us. Why not go read that Christmas book, someone spent good money to get it for you :). Seriously though, just look at a few of the Basic AS: Main tutorials and you'll start to understand it. Everyone sucks at scripting when they first start....(except maybe GustTheASGuy, but he's different)

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

At 6/14/08 01:58 PM, El-Presidente wrote:

At 6/14/08 12:55 PM, FatKidWitAJetPak wrote: Oh and I was also wondering, do you put that coding to make the items invisible in the inventory movie clip, or the frame?

All depends on the code you us. Why not go read that Christmas book, someone spent good money to get it for you :). Seriously though, just look at a few of the Basic AS: Main tutorials and you'll start to understand it. Everyone sucks at scripting when they first start....(except maybe GustTheASGuy, but he's different)

Alright, thanks for the link. I did read some of that book by the way, but could not find any useful coding in there lol. °_°

[iScript]

At 6/13/08 12:33 AM, Afro-Ninja wrote: like I said man, it's all about using the boolean variables to represent various states of true and false

give it a try and see what you come up with :)

AHHH BOOLEANS OR NOT MY FIRNEDSSSS.... Booleans so many BOOLEANS, i created one of these games awhile back, i swear i had over 400 booleans or something absurd like that, and keeping track of them all was just nuts...

I think the best way to go around doing this is arrays, and your thinking arrays ZOMFG?!!

Yes arrays, arrays can hold variables...

For instance
var simpleArray:Array = new Array(lol= false);
if(simpleArray[0] ) {
trace("LOL")
}
else{
trace("aww");
}

Then if you wanted to optomize you would create a variable above it and then state what it is...

IE:
var lol:Boolean;
var simpleArray:Array = new Array(lol= false);
if(simpleArray[0] == false) {
trace("LOL")
}
else{
trace("aww");
}
That's the more efficient way to do it.

[Treerung]

At 6/14/08 07:29 PM, iScript wrote: N00b talk

Seriously, what the hell are you talking about..

[pieguy48]

At 6/14/08 07:29 PM, iScript wrote: all that stuff

I've never used an Array in my life, so this may be a stupid question, but wouldn't it be easier to have Boolean variables? That way, you know what you're talking about. Instead of "simpleArray[0] = false" you have "Key = false".

My advice with a large number of variables is to make them all follow a pattern. For example, using the first three letters and the last letter. A diamond would be "diad", a monkey would be "mony". This has nothing to do with your original question, I know, but hey, whatever ^^

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

°_°

OK. So for all that coding, which is very helpful by the way, Where do I put my item names? (Like screwdriver and hammer.)

I only have 7 inventory items in my game along with about 8 things they do. I have 3 items that combine together. So I would probably have only 20 variables. So I would make everything that you can interact with in the game a Movie Clip? And then create a variable for each one of them?

If the answer is yes, then hurra, I'm starting to get it.

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

ughh, I need food, going to eat pizza.

[CaptinChu]

The answer, my friend, is instance names. In the movieclip properties, you can assign an instance name. You can manipulate it with actionscript in the timeline. Lets say I gave that red diamond an instance name of redd:

redd._visible=false

redDiamondArea.onPress=function(){
redd._visible=true
inventory.push(redd)
}

That, of course, if overly simplified. I think that, with this, you should be able to understand enough to do the rest of the game. I wish you the best of luck, and may the pizza be with you.

[FatKidWitAJetPak]

SWEET. so that means that the diamond instance in the game will be visible. Once I press it, the diamond instance in my iventory will be visible right?

[CaptinChu]

.... Something like that. If you press on an area, you can make the diamond appear in your inventory, like the place where you get the diamond. When you click on and use the diamond, you can adjust the alpha of the movieclip to make it semi-transparent, letting the user know it's been used and the option is now disabled.