Control Player Movement

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Aug 3 2010, 12:57 pm
Hey I am making a board game and I want to control how many spaces a player can walk and then restrict them from walking until they roll again. I heard you should do this by affecting the client Move() instead of the mob one. I am finding trouble finding a guide or demo that tracks how many spaces a player has moved. Any Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Aug 3 2010, 1:09 pm
If the players are walking the spaces on their own, then I recommend this:

mob
   var
      spaces_to_move=0
client
   Move()
      if(!mob.spaces_to_move) return
      mob.spaces_to_move --
      ..()


Whenever a player rolls, just set their spaces_to_move to the number of spaces they are allowed to move. I hope you see where I am going with this. Feel free to ask if you are confused.
Aug 3 2010, 1:12 pm
In response to Albro1
Albro1 wrote:
If the players are walking the spaces on their own, then I recommend this:

> mob
>    var
>       spaces_to_move=0
> client
>    Move()
>       if(!mob.spaces_to_move) return
>       mob.spaces_to_move --
>       ..()
>

Whenever a player rolls, just set their spaces_to_move to the number of spaces they are allowed to move. I hope you see where I am going with this. Feel free to ask if you are confused.


I do follow what you are doing but when I tried something like that it complained that my varible was undefined (in this case spaces_to_move)
Aug 3 2010, 1:14 pm
In response to Remaru
Did you define the variable?
mob
   var
      spaces_to_move=0
Aug 3 2010, 1:20 pm
In response to Albro1
thanks for your help, i finally got it to work. turns out it was an indentation error of all things lol.
Aug 3 2010, 1:21 pm
In response to Remaru
You are welcome.
Aug 3 2010, 1:28 pm
In response to Albro1
That should be:

mob
   var
      spaces_to_move=0
client
   Move()
      if(mob.spaces_to_move <= 0) return 0
      mob.spaces_to_move --
      return ..()
Aug 3 2010, 1:30 pm
In response to Garthor
Can you please explain the difference between the two please?

I have seen it done both ways, I just want to see the reasoning, if you wouldn't mind.
Aug 3 2010, 1:37 pm
In response to Albro1
if(!X) should only be used if X is a binary (true or false) value. It's defined for other values but it's not good practice to use it like so.

The Move() proc should return a value indicating success or failure. Hence, return 0 to be a bit more explicit about failure, and return ..() to actually return a success value if the move succeeded.

Oh, which reminds me that you probably don't want to lose a move if you try to make an invalid one, so I'd also suggest:

client/Move()
  if(movesleft <= 0) return 0
  else
    . = ..()
    if(.) movesleft--
Aug 3 2010, 1:38 pm
In response to Garthor
Aah, ok. Thanks.
Aug 3 2010, 3:46 pm
In response to Albro1
I have run into another dilemma. When I am keeping track of the movements if i hit the direction arrow it counts it as a movement even though the location is the same. Is there a way to count moves only when the location changes? I was thinking of creating a process that called move() but that caused an infinite loop lol.

Here is a snippet of what I have so far:

client
Move()
if(mob.Movement <= 0) return 0
mob.Movement--
return ..()
Aug 3 2010, 3:47 pm
In response to Remaru
Aug 3 2010, 3:59 pm
In response to Garthor
Wow... I feel so bad im sorry somehow i completely overlooked your post. Thanks for your help