Random Object Variables

ID:161876
 
Mar 21 2008, 7:49 am
I'm aware I posted two days ago, but if it's here I'm going to use it.

In my last post I was working on a fishing system, which I still am now. Though it works now, I want to add some fun stuff to it.

How would I make it so that when you do catch a fish it would have a random size from blank# to blank# (So we can keep sizes realistic, of course).

if(0 to 4)
view()<<output("small worthless message here","window")
sleep(#)
usr<<output("You caught a fishnamehere","window")
usr.contents+=new/obj/Fish/Fishname

How would I go from there into adding a random size to that fish, so say if they caught a gold fish you'd want it to be no more than 2 or 3 inches tops. So I'd want something like a random of 1 to 3? I don't know how to do it exactly, and it's not working all that nicely. I'm pretty sure it could be done the same way the fish is done, but how would I go about adding the variable to the object and what not?

Some help would be so great, thanks.
Mar 21 2008, 8:21 am
 
var/obj/Fish/Fishname/Fish = new/obj/Fish/Fishname
Fish.loc = usr
Fish.size=rand(min,max)

Isn't it simple?
Mar 21 2008, 8:35 am
In response to Lyndonarmitage1
Oh my god. My bad, it should be.


I'm so sorry for the inconvenient post, haha.

I'll figure it out, thanks Lyndon.
Mar 21 2008, 8:47 am
In response to Lyndonarmitage1
Since size of fishes can very from species to species, genus to genus, I would recommend setting the size when the fish is created, via modifying New(): 
Fish
  Tuna
    New()                   //  When the /Fish/Tuna item is created
      size = rand(10,25)    //  Picks a random # between 10-25
      size /= 10            //  The size is now 1.0 - 2.5 :D
      world.log << {"[src.name] ([src.type]) has been created! It is [size]" long!"}   //  parenthesis quote {" "} are basically like long strings which is able to escape quotes, meaning that the string will not end prematurely with an unescaped quote (\")

Bacteria
   Salmonella
     New()
      size = rand(1,20) / pick(1,10)  // Two in one :D The size is from 0.1 - 20 (min: 1/10 - max: 20/1)
      world << "Salmonella is [size] micrometers long!"
Mar 22 2008, 5:51 am
In response to GhostAnime
What happens with the system is the size is decided for each specific fish when they're caught - The code is pretty long in the means it has different code snippets for each different fish.

So I just create the size there, thanks for the help. :D