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[Zenith]

Don't know if this involves a script or not, so I hope this is in the right forum.

I was playing Joe123's 2 Week Quest Contest entry (you know the one). I noticed how he made message strings show up whenever Link picked up an important item. It didn't look like event flags, because of how seamless it was. The string appeared not when Link stepped on the tile the item was on, but when he picked up the item itself. I wanna know how he did that.

And I'm using 2.5 b679, if that matters.

Edited by zmaster, 11 January 2008 - 12:12 AM.

[Joe123]

CODE

item script message{
    void run(int m){
        Screen->Message(m);
    }
}

Where D0 on the item is what message you want to play.

Also note that Quest Rules:
Messages Freeze All Action
Messages Dissapear

Should be checked.

[LostInHyru1e]

Wow, cool! What a simple yet awesome script. Joe, you've been cranking out the most useful scripts lately...

[Joe123]

Heh, pretty much everyone who has even the simplest grasp of ZScript has written that script, no need to credit me for it.

[LostInHyru1e]

Not just that one... I mean, you've been cranking out some wonder-scripts in general. Ones that could possibly be hard-coded into future ZQuest installments... maybe. :Shrugs: I don't know much about Hard-Coding as opposed to scripting.

[Rocksfan13]

Woops, wrong forum. I'll move it.

*Topic moved from Zquest Editor Help*

[Joe123]

Not just that one... I mean, you've been cranking out some wonder-scripts in general. Ones that could possibly be hard-coded into future ZQuest installments... maybe. :Shrugs: I don't know much about Hard-Coding as opposed to scripting.

Well thanks =P

And neither do I I'm afraid.
I have no knowledge of any other kinds of coding, I just thought it'd be good to learn ZScript back in october or so.

[LostInHyru1e]

When I get time, I'll try to learn too. Which Tutorial is the best?

[Joe123]

Matthews probably.

(http://www.geocities...ipttutorial.txt that one)

[LostInHyru1e]

Okay, I'll check it out later.

[Zenith]

Good to know...now I gotta figure out how to put it in ZQuest...I'm cluless when it comes to these scripts...

Edited by zmaster, 12 January 2008 - 10:51 PM.

[Joe123]

Ahhh, there should be a tutorial on this I can direct people too, I never seem to remember where there is one, and I end up typing it out at least twice a week.

Anyway

Open up 'Notepad'.

On the first line, write:

CODE

import "std.zh"

Then, leave a line and copy in the script.

Go to 'Save As', and then type in '####.z', and in the box where it says 'filetype', change it from '.txt', to 'All Files', then press 'OK'.

Go to ZQuest; Tools->Scripts->Compile ZScript.

Click 'Load', and find the file you just made.

Press 'Compile', and then click on the 'Item' tab.

The name of the script should appear on the right hand side.

Select it and press the '<<' button to copy it over into a slot.


Then, to apply it to an item:

Open the item in the Item Editor.

Go to the 'Pickup' tab.

In the box where it says 'Script', type the number of the slot that you applied the script to.

In the 'Arguments' tab, put for 'D0', the number of the string you want to play.

[Zenith]

Good to know. 'Cause something tells me this won't be the only script I'm gonna end up using...

[Joe123]

And if you're going to use more than one script, make sure to copy them all into the same .z file, you can't have more than one buffer.

[ZebraStallion]

Wow, I put this into my quest, (first script I actually got to work ,) and it's really smooth.