Location saving

ID:145904
 
Nov 7 2005, 9:52 am
Code:
mob
    monsters
        Bug
            icon = 'Icons.dmi'
            icon_state = "Frozen"
            origloc = "10,12,1" //The original location of the mob
            respawn = 100 //Respawns after 10 seconds
-----------------------------------------

    die(mob/M)
        if(src.hp<=0)
                      blbalbalablablba
                src.loc = null
                sleep(src.respawn) //Waits respawn amount
                src.loc = origloc  // Moves the monsters back to his original location


Problem description: Doesn't respawn back

Nov 7 2005, 10:01 am
Mysame wrote:
origloc = "10,12,1"

...

src.loc = origloc

So, in effect, here's what you're doing:

src.loc = "10,12,1"

Wrong! loc is not a text string. It's an atom. Use locate() (or, if you're quite insistant on using a text string, download p_utility and use the locate_text() procedure) to get the turf at (10,12,1) and go there.
Nov 7 2005, 10:06 am
In response to PirateHead
Yeah well, but origloc = 10,12,1 gives
mobs.dm:16:error: ,: expected }
mobs.dm:4:error: location of top-most unmatched {
Nov 7 2005, 11:20 am (Edited on Nov 7 2005, 6:30 pm)
 
> mob
>   monsters
>       Bug
>           icon = 'Icons.dmi'
>           icon_state = "Frozen"
>           respawn = 100 //Respawns after 10 seconds
        New()
            ..()
            origloc = loc
            
> -----------------------------------------
> 
>   die(mob/M)
>       if(src.hp<=0)
>                       blbalbalablablba
>               src.loc = null
>               sleep(src.respawn) //Waits respawn amount
>               src.loc = origloc  // Moves the monsters back to his original location
>


That should work, who knows. =p
Nov 7 2005, 5:10 pm
In response to Mysame
try origloc = src.loc = locate(10,12,1)
Nov 7 2005, 10:32 pm
In response to Derekjeterisgod
You can't set 'origloc' to locate(x,y,z). Although src.loc should be set to that. Origloc cannot be declared to be a dynamic value at compile-time, though.

Do this:
mob/monster
    var/origloc
    New()
        ..()
        origloc=loc
    Respawn()
        //Yeah, whatever else goes here
        loc=origloc
Nov 8 2005, 5:43 am
In response to Jp
Thanks all! It worked!!!
Nov 8 2005, 11:51 am
If you want to save your data via text string, something I also prefer because it uses a single variable, use something like this.
proc/Text2Location(T as text)
   if(!istext(T)) return T
   var/x=text2num(copytext(T,1,findtext(T,",")))
   T=copytext(T,findtext(T,",")+1)
   var/y=text2num(copytext(T,1,findtext(T,",")))
   T=copytext(T,findtext(T,",")+1)
   var/z=text2num(copytext(T))
   var/turf/T=locate(x,y,z)
   return T


It's sort've long, but it works, and saves you a couple of variables.