trying to make a game but i have no idea what to do

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Aug 21 2002, 10:05 pm
i read a few of the tutorials but i had errors on all of them and i couldnt make the game do what i wanted. somebody please email me at [email protected] with some help if they can or respond here. thanks.
Aug 21 2002, 10:09 pm (Edited on Aug 21 2002, 10:19 pm)
Make sure your indenting proper, that was my biggest flaw when i was learning to code.

Alatar
Aug 21 2002, 10:14 pm
Did you do the ZBT tutorial? It should be flawless. If not, show us what the problems are.
Aug 22 2002, 12:44 am
In response to Alatar
here is my code from the zbt tutorial:

mob
icon = 'person.dmi'
var
HP = 30
bug
icon = 'bug.dmi'
Login()
icon_state = gender
..()
proc
DeathCheck()
if (HP <= 0)
world << "[src] dies!"
verb
attack(mob/M as mob in oview(1))
usr << "You attack [M]!"
oview() << "[usr] attacks [M]!"
var/damage = rand(1/10)
world << "[damage] damage!"
M.HP -= damage
M.DeathCheck()
say(msg as text)
world << "[usr]: [msg]"
turf
grass
icon = 'grass.dmi'
world
turf = /turf/grass

if you can understand that. and here is the problem:
BYOND(332.837) Error: the file C:\Program Files\BYOND\bin\Testworld\Testworld.rsc is locked up! Testworld.dm:6:error: 'bug.dmi' : cannot find file

Testworld.dmb - 1 error, 0 warnings (double click on an error to jump to it)
Aug 22 2002, 12:49 am
In response to Kilgore trout
somehow there is no error now. thanks for the help though.
Aug 22 2002, 12:50 am
In response to Kilgore trout
Alright, i'll explain to you what server is locked up means.

That means you are hosting the game, and compiled the code. The server locks up because you are in the game, and trying to compile it. Stop hosting the game, compile it, and it's fine.
Hope that helps you.

Alatar
Aug 22 2002, 12:55 am
In response to Kilgore trout
now the bugs that are supposed to show on the map have no icon and they dont show up. also when i run the game i dont have a choice between the male, female, and neuter. i havent changed anything from my other post in the script.
Aug 22 2002, 12:56 am
In response to Kilgore trout
Kilgore trout wrote:
now the bugs that are supposed to show on the map have no icon and they dont show up. also when i run the game i dont have a choice between the male, female, and neuter. i havent changed anything from my other post in the script.

First off, you don't have a selection for Male, Female, Neuter in that code you posted.

Alatar
Aug 22 2002, 1:07 am
In response to Alatar
how do i put a selection in for that code?
Aug 22 2002, 1:10 am
In response to Kilgore trout
Put somthing like this somewhere in your code:
mob
    var gender
switch(input("What gender would you like?","Gender")in list("Male","Female","Neuter"))
    if("Male")usr.gender="male"
    if("Female")usr.gender="female"
    if("Neuter")usr.gender="neuter"


Hope that helps, i'm off to bed now.

Alatar
Aug 22 2002, 3:39 am (Edited on Aug 22 2002, 3:47 am)
In response to Alatar
Alatar wrote:
Put somthing like this somewhere in your code:
mob
>   var gender
> switch(input("What gender would you like?","Gender")in list("Male","Female","Neuter"))
>   if("Male")usr.gender="male"
>   if("Female")usr.gender="female"
>   if("Neuter")usr.gender="neuter"



usr.gender=input("What gender would you like?","Gender")in list("Male","Female","Neuter")

does the same in one line.
Aug 22 2002, 3:47 am
In response to Skysaw
Erm.... Shouldn't the line read usr.gender = input("What gender would you like?","Gender")in list("male","female","neuter") ?
Aug 22 2002, 8:33 am
In response to WizDragon
Uhhh, you don't need to select your gender. Your gender is, by default, the gender of your key. Also, your problem seems to be something with your bug icon. Check it to see if it's there, and has something on it. Also, when doing rand(), and all procs, arguments are seperated by a comma (,), because what you've done will divivde the two numbers.
Aug 22 2002, 10:02 am
In response to WizDragon
unless i dont see a difference,other then a space before and after the =...
you dont need the space,it's temporary

now,the other problem you had,Kilgore,is that it doesnt show the icon,right?
did you make a bug.dmi file?
and did you put any capitalization in it?
(like Bug.dmi or BUG.DMI or something?)
because it's very case sensative...
(the difference between:
icon = 'bug.dmi'
and
icon = 'Bug.dmi'
is huge,and may cause an error that could confuse most new coders,and gurus alike ^_^ )
Aug 22 2002, 1:05 pm
In response to Roara
yeah i made the .dmi file and then typed in the code or it and when i run it i can attack the bugs but they are just not there visually.
Aug 22 2002, 1:06 pm
In response to Kilgore trout
Did you name the icon state? Is there even an icon in the .dmi file?
Aug 22 2002, 1:20 pm
here is my current code:
mob
icon = 'person.dmi'
var
HP = 30

bug
icon = 'bug.dmi'
Login()
usr.gender = input("What gender would you like?","gender")in list("male","female","neuter")
icon_state = gender
..()
proc
DeathCheck()
if (HP <= 0)
world << "[src] dies!"
del(src)
verb
attack(mob/M as mob in oview(1))
usr << "You attack [M]!"
oview() << "[usr] attacks [M]!"
var/damage = rand(1,10)
world << "[damage] damage!"
M.HP -= damage
M.DeathCheck()

say(msg as text)
world << "[usr]: [msg]"
turf
grass
icon = 'grass.dmi'
world
turf = /turf/grass
I was wondering if in place of 'gender' in the Login proc why i cant put 'character' so it asked me which character i wanted to choose rather than gender?
Aug 23 2002, 11:04 am
In response to Roara
Bah, Skysaw must have edited his post. Before, there was a switch() in there and the gender names were capitalized.