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[Shadowblitz16]

How do I check if the right angle slash flag is set?

 

I did a search for slash in stdConstants.zh and zscript.txt and came up with nothing

Edited by Shadowblitz16, 01 January 2017 - 01:49 PM.

[Timelord]

How do I check if the right angle slash flag is set?

 

I did a search for slash in stdConstants.zh and zscript.txt and came up with nothing

 

Do you mean to check if Link has slash, or if slash direction is not reversed?

[Shadowblitz16]

slash direction is not reversed

[Timelord]

slash direction is not reversed

Sorry, clarify. You want to check if slash direction is not reversed? (Quest->Rules->Items->1->Flip Right Facing Slash)

That's a quest rule.

There is no way to check it in 2.50, directly, but you can do this:
 

bool SwordFlipped(){
	lweapon l;
	for ( int q = Screen->NumLWeapons(); q > 0; q-- ) {
		l = Screen->LoadLWeapon(q);
		if ( l->ID == LW_SWORD ) {
			return (l->Flip != 0);
		}
	}
}

Note that this will return '2' when it is flipped, but the sword animation ends on a non-slash sprite, which will return 0. There are fourteen frames of the slash animation, and the last four will return 0 even if the slash is flipped, so you want to catch it on the first frame of the sword's animation.

You can't do it from an item script, because the script runs before the lweapon is generated, so you are effectively required to set up some conditions wherever you do elect to do the check, so that you catch it on the first frame of the sword.

Edited by ZoriaRPG, 02 January 2017 - 09:38 PM.

[Shadowblitz16]

ok nevermind then thankyou

[Timelord]

ok nevermind then thankyou

?

You need to check it before the sword appears; is that it?

[Shadowblitz16]

well I need to check it for a stdWeapons type weapon

[Timelord]

well I need to check it for a stdWeapons type weapon

If you are using that header, why not just create swords with it...? Checking the quest rule bit is superfluous. Just use some kind of setting to decide if a sword should be flipped.

[Shadowblitz16]

ok I will then.

I just thought that making it configurable within the editor would be nice

[Timelord]

ok I will then.
I just thought that making it configurable within the editor would be nice

Well, this is precisely why I expanded itemdata, and made items heavily configurable for ZC [2.future] v2.54.

Using that, quite a lot of stdWeapons.zh can be simplified, and reconfigured to use the item editor for almost every value, down to selecting the sprites from menus. You could use some kind of arg in 2.50.x to make it configurable though, unless Alucard is still using both the decimal, and integer sides of every Script D value to set its sprites and values.

[Shadowblitz16]

I don't know really.

but that sounds cool I can't wait until v2.54.

are you guys planning on adding the Link hitbox variables? I just ask since that's what I'm looking forward to most.