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corvey · Novice Joined: Apr 02 2007 Posts: 40 Offline

The main ORB "Orbit" command that I need first will go into a region check routine about the status of the planet and then proceed based on the criteria. How/where in the ASSS system should I go about doing this? If it's my module, then how does my module interrupt input?

Ideally I need a system like the buy.c system to buy People, Food, Fighters, etc in multiples, not just singles. I tried playing with that to see what happened, and it seems that each number of the prize is associated with a function number. Where are all these prize functions located? In addition to the buy, I would need a sell, and a transfer of items feature.

This would also have to include a transfer of goods to and from the ship, like an inventory system. Does anyone have this module already made to customize for my project? I seen Bak's PBinventory and damn it seems excess for what I need, I was hoping for something easier.

Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:45 am Post subject:

If you want to know how buy works, then look at buy.c. If that's not specific enough, look at asss/src/core/buy.c.
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corvey · Novice Joined: Apr 02 2007 Posts: 40 Offline

Animate Dreams · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject:

I thought I made a post last night in here, but I don't see it. It also isn't junked, so I'm going to assume I never posted it, and post it again:

I don't understand your first problem. It's probably just me, but could you try rephrasing it? Maybe going into more detail?

Erm, as for the prizes, you're probably talking about the prize constants as defined in defs.h. That's a pretty useful file, btw, keep it handy.

I suggest just creating a new buy module(obviously going by the old one for the similar sections), and add the selling and probably even transfer in on top of that.

Again, since I don't know exactly what you're trying to do, your third problem is tripping me up. transferring items to and from your ship probably isn't what PBInventory does at all. However, it seems pretty simple. Don't let Bak's module daunt you. He has a way of making things incredibly complex. Not in a bad way, there's always a reason for everything he does, and he covers all the bases, and eliminates any chance for failure. For example, look at his poll plugin. I wrote a poll module about 9 months ago, and it was fairly simple. Even with other things in the module, it wasn't even 200 lines of code. Then a few days later Bak released a poll module, and if you take a look at it, he's overloaded it with tons of features and other things. Don't get me wrong, Bak did a great job, but he's on such a higher level than me programming wise that I wasn't able to learn much from it at the time. So depending on your programming skill, it's probably best just to start simple. I've personally learned a lot more trying to make modules from "scratch" than I have trying to modify other people's code.

And just ignore Brain. You'll have to ignore a lot of comments like that here. If you keep trying, someone will eventually answer your question, though.

And lol Brain, I do believe that's asss-1.4.3\src\core\buy.c . He IS using Windows, after all. If you're only going to give one piece of useless advice, you might as well get it right.

Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject:

Smong · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject:

The thing is corvey did say buy.c in his original post, implying he already knew about that module. Maybe Dr Brain missed this causing corvey to write a mini-essay in response which then snowballed. Anyway...

I also assume the ?orbit command is used to go into orbit around a planet, which would then give you access to its resources (I don't know if GE allows landing too). You can add new commands with:

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cmd->AddCommand(...); //(see cmdman.h for the parameters)

They can be added for the entire zone, or per-arena. Don't forget to unregister them when the module unloads or detaches.

BDwinsAlt · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject:

Not to get off topic, but did anyone ever get Grel to fix the crashing from chaning arenas? I know Zim fixed it once. I would think that would be a huge priority.

Also, I would recommend making a small custom buy module to see how it all works. You probably need to make your own if you want that stuff you said to go smoothly. Editing buy.c to sell items might cause problems down the road. Make a custom one. Try it in Python and C.

Animate Dreams · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:06 pm Post subject: