Visual Character Selection

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Aug 24 2006, 2:17 pm
I look all over in the libraies and demos and could not find a single visual character selection help. I mainly want it so when the person starts a new game they choose their character's sprite from a verity on the screen. NOT CHOOSING FROM A LIST
Aug 24 2006, 2:47 pm
When I tried to do this, I made objects for the different options, and made a Click() thing. For skins, it would set their icon to that, and for eyes, hair, etc, it would add an overlay.
Aug 25 2006, 7:51 am
In response to Seraphrevan
thank you, after looking at a title screen demo I though this might work ^_^. But one more question I have is, after they choose there character can you have them spawn on a totally diffrent map?
Aug 25 2006, 7:53 am
In response to FriesOfDoom
Yeah, just at the end, ask them if they want to keep their character, and if they say yes, just change their loc.
Aug 25 2006, 7:57 am
In response to Seraphrevan
Seraphrevan wrote:
Yeah, just at the end, ask them if they want to keep their character, and if they say yes, just change their loc.

I'm don't mean like Z coordinates, I mean like they go to a diffrent map file. What would the coding look like?
I know the coding for switching Z coordinates is loc=(1,1,2)

THe reason im asking is because the orignal map is 2 small because of the title screen. So i'd have to do the above or put the title screen on the 2nd z cordinate, or just put black around the title screen, right?
Aug 25 2006, 9:29 am
In response to FriesOfDoom
Here are my thoughts on this:

You could create mobs for the title screen or an area for each individual mob on the title screen. Just do something with Click() like this:
area
    mob1
        Click()
            usr.icon = 'mob1.dmi'
            usr.loc=locate(1,1,1)
    mob2
        Click()
            usr.icon = 'mob2.dmi'
            usr.loc=locate(1,1,2)
    mob3
        Click()
            usr.icon = 'mob3.dmi'
            usr.loc=locate(1,1,3)


Something like that would work. There are many ways you could do that.
Aug 25 2006, 9:39 am
In response to FriesOfDoom
 
#include "(name of map).dmp"
then it should start on the next z level
Aug 25 2006, 2:24 pm
In response to Kore2
yeah i got the whole intire switching to the next Z coordinate but, what im asking is can you have the person teleport to another map file.

mapfile2
mapfile1

player on mapfile1
player teleports to mapfile2
possible?

Note:I already have it done, I'm just curious about if you can do the above.
Aug 25 2006, 4:41 pm
In response to FriesOfDoom
One thing I usually do for locating players and such is assigning tags to areas.

area/points
     var/point = ""
     New() point = tag
     place1/point = "Point one"

Then once the tag is set you can just use that as a locating point!
mob/Login() src.loc = locate("Point one")
//this will locate the player at the area with the tag "Point one"

Just gotta set the area on a map, else you'd end up in a black screen. :P
Aug 25 2006, 4:46 pm
In response to FriesOfDoom
It doesn't really matter how many map files you have, they all get set to the same series of Z coordinates in the game.

For example, suppose you have maps named 'town.dmp', 'city.dmp', and 'forest.dmp'.
If each of those maps is 3 Z coordinates 'deep', then Z=1-3 will be 'city.dmp', Z=4-6 will be 'forest.dmp', and Z=7-9 will be 'town.dmp'

Essentially, every included map files gets copied in alphabetical order into one larger map file for the game. (The compiler generates default turfs for areas outside the smaller maps if they are different X/Y sizes)
Aug 25 2006, 5:18 pm
In response to Destroy
Hmn. Whats the default of world.max and maxy?
If it isn't set does it not generate extra turfs?
or does it do that anyways?
Aug 26 2006, 6:11 am
In response to Destroy
Thank you thats what i was asking!^_^
Aug 26 2006, 9:52 am
In response to Mechanios
Mechanios wrote:
Hmn. Whats the default of world.max and maxy?
If it isn't set does it not generate extra turfs?
or does it do that anyways?


world.maxx & world.maxy is the same as the "x" & "y" of the largest map.