Pac-Man Ghost coding

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Apr 4 2002, 3:33 pm
yes i am having troub;e with some code for pac man. I am trying to make the ghost and i want you to transport to the lobby when touched by one,play lobby midi, and move randomly

heres what i have and it doesn't work. plz help

mob/ghosts/pinkGhost
icon = 'mob.dmi'
icon_state = "pinkghost"
Entered()
usr.PTS=0
usr.loc = locate(15,19,2)
usr<<"Sorry You lost all your points. Please try again"
usr<<sound('dw3castl.mid',1)
New()
walk_rand(src,7)
density = 0
Apr 4 2002, 3:48 pm
Entered is not going to do it. Look up Bump() in the reference. Also, get rid of "usr"... doesn't belong in there anywhere.
Apr 4 2002, 4:01 pm
In response to Skysaw
Can we show me exactly i am not much of a wizard here and all the fancey words hurt my head
Apr 4 2002, 4:10 pm
In response to RagnarofBurland
It's just a matter of swapping some words.

mob/player
Bump(var/atom/A) //called when player bumps into something
if(istype(A,/mob/ghost)) //if it bumped into ghost
PTS=0
loc = locate(15,19,2)
src<<"Sorry You lost all your points. Please try again"
src<<sound('dw3castl.mid',1)
Apr 4 2002, 4:18 pm
In response to English
ok like i did that exactly and made all the ghost names match and such but it would seem it doesn't work a blast
Apr 4 2002, 4:37 pm
In response to RagnarofBurland
Oops, sorry about that. What I showed you would be if the player bumped into the ghost, not if the ghost bumped into the player.

mob/ghost
Bump(var/atom/A) //called when a ghost bumps into something
if(istype(A,/mob/player)) //if it bumped into player
var/mob/player/P = A
P.PTS=0
P.loc = locate(15,19,2)
P<<"Sorry You lost all your points. Please try again"
P<<sound('dw3castl.mid',1)
Apr 4 2002, 4:43 pm
In response to English
P isn't defined. and i'm not sure how to!
Apr 4 2002, 5:09 pm
In response to RagnarofBurland
Because you don't know what the ghosts are going to be bumping into (or at least I don't) you can't assume they will bump into a player. You have to use the checks I put in to make sure your only trying to effect players.

In this case P is just a temporary variable that I defined to let you treat what the ghost bumped into as a player (or whatever your default player mob is). One way to get arround doing that (but Spuzzum might not like it :p) is to just do it like this:

Bump(var/mob/player/P)
if(istype(P,/mob/player))
P.PTS = 0
//the rest like it was before

That will tell the compiler to assume what it's bumping into is a player.

You'll have to modify the types based upon what type your expecting the player to be in your game though.
Apr 4 2002, 5:18 pm (Edited on Apr 8 2002, 5:58 pm)
Why not make a smarter ghost?
mob/Player
Ghost
    parent_type = /obj
    density = 1
    var
        mob/Player/target
        speed = 1 in 1 to 10
        dist as num
    Bump(var/atom/A)
        if(istype(A,/mob/Player))
            if(!A:client)
                world.log << "ERROR: [A] \[[A.type]] does not have a client."
                return
            spawn() alert(A:client,"Sorry, you've lost all of your points. Please try again!","Game Over")
            //A.client << sound('dw3castl.mid',1)
            del(A:client.mob)
    New()
        ..()
        while(1)
            sleep(11-speed)
            var/target_check = 0
            for(var/mob/M in world)
                if(M == target) target_check = 1
            if(target != null && target_check)
                if(dist == null) dist = 1e100
                else dist = get_dist(src,target)
                for(var/mob/Player/M in world)
                    if(get_dist(src,M) < dist + ((world.maxx + world.maxy/2)/10))
                        target = M
                        dist = get_dist(src,M)
                        break
                    else
                step_towards(src,target)
                if(get_dist(src,target) == target.density)
                    Bump(target)
            else while(!step_rand(src))

This ghost will select a target and, unless another player moves very close to the ghost, will relentlessly persue the target (instead of just walking randomly.) Good luck!

-Lord of Water
Apr 5 2002, 2:41 am (Edited on Apr 5 2002, 4:19 am)
In response to Lord of Water
Ok i only have one problem lord of water. I just defined the PC as

mob
icon = "mob.dmi"
icon_state = "pacman"

how can i make this match your ghost bump code?
yes and when i add all my move and music play commands under the bump target i always get incorrect indentation!

aye yie yie time to go back to byond reference in a useless wallow of head pain

Apr 5 2002, 4:21 am
In response to RagnarofBurland
1 more thing! thank you for all the help. please still do what you can with the problem though because the code still is buggish
Apr 5 2002, 12:01 pm
In response to RagnarofBurland
To make my code work, make the PC be /mob/Player instead of /mob. Also, I've updaded my code above to use your sound and message. Hope it works for you now!

-Lord of Water
Apr 5 2002, 3:21 pm
In response to Lord of Water
Oh thank you so much. now pac man is coming along nicely and its time to work on asteroids soon!!!!

<(^__^)>
Apr 5 2002, 3:26 pm
In response to RagnarofBurland
**coughs** Air Mapster has a game called Dungman exactly the same as pac man http://www.byond.com/hub/hub.cgi?hub=airmapster/dungman **coughs**
Apr 6 2002, 1:41 am
In response to Super16
i am doing more then just pac-man ok its several arcade games in a single byond eniviroment. AKA asteroids,pac-man and such
Apr 6 2002, 1:43 am (Edited on Apr 6 2002, 4:11 am)
In response to English
ok well all the coding and such works now except i am getting words wierdest runtime error. Curse my rotten luck. i realize from the error its a density problem but whatcha gonna do

runtime error: Cannot read null.density
proc name: New (/testGhost/New)
usr: null
src: the testGhost (/testGhost)
call stack:
the testGhost (/testGhost): New(the ground (28,2,3) (/turf/ground))
RagnarofBurland logs out.
runtime error: Cannot read null.client
proc name: Bump (/testGhost/Bump)
usr: null
src: the testGhost (/testGhost)
call stack:
the testGhost (/testGhost): Bump(null)
Apr 6 2002, 9:07 pm
In response to RagnarofBurland
You might want to show your proc /testGhost/New() here so that we can see what is wrong.
Apr 6 2002, 9:19 pm
In response to RagnarofBurland
Just a thought, with no code to see and all, but maybe you shouldnt set density to null, try setting it to 0.
Apr 6 2002, 9:30 pm
In response to RagnarofBurland
hey i know this isnt a help thing but when do you expect to put your game out(cuz it sounds fun)

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-mike
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Apr 7 2002, 5:05 am
In response to Soccerguy13
mob/Player
testGhost
icon = 'mob.dmi'
icon_state = "testghost"
parent_type = /obj
density = 1
var
mob/Player/target
speed = 1 in 1 to 10
Bump(var/atom/A)
if(istype(A,/mob/Player))
if(!A:client)
world.log << "ERROR: [A] \[[A.type]] does not have a client."
return
spawn() alert(A:client,"Sorry, you've lost all of your points. Please try again!","Game Over")
A << sound('dw3castl.mid',1)
del(A:client.mob)
New()
..()
while(1)
sleep(11-speed)
var/dist = 1e100
for(var/mob/Player/M in world)
if(get_dist(src,M) < dist + ((world.maxx+world.maxy/2)/10))
target = M
dist = get_dist(src,M)
step_towards(src,target)
if(get_dist(src,target) == target.density)
Bump(target)

//thats the code


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