Trying to emulate skill advancement and override the original skill (almost) totally.

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Trying to emulate skill advancement and override the original skill (almost) totally. - Rayvolution - 07-21-2012 03:25 PM

I haven't scripting in years, I used to be an old scripter back in the TUS days, 51a and eventually in the 55i days.. but, I've forgotten a lot in the past 5 years or so, and I can't seem to wrap my head around this problem and I feel it should be simple.

Basically, I'm trying to (if possible) trigger the "Skillgain chance" in an unnatural environment for a skill.

What I plan on doing is completely disabling ItemID's normal functions, and "fake it" with another function. The new way I plan on writing ItemID (and Arms Lore, but that's not important right now) is when you single click on an item it'll tell you information about that item in a SYSMESSAGE, based on how high your ItemID skill is, and then, "test" the skill and allow skillgain like you would if you used it normally.

Alternatively, I wouldn't mind simply having a "Random chance" script that just raised the skill at random, but I'd rather it just test the skill correctly and let Sphere decide if it wants to give the user a skillgain.

Here's a quick script I have written up, I just need to plugin the value that either tests the skill (allowing for default skill gains) or just stick in a random variable for a chance at a gain. Either will work, but I'm stuck trying to figure it out.

I eventually plan on plugging this into every single item in the game (Yes, I know, I'm crazy.) but first I need to figure the skill gains out. Smile

Super-basic script I have so far, yes, I know I overwrote a core ITEMDEF, I did it on purpose. Smile

Code:

[ITEMDEF 0f0c]

DEFNAME=i_bottle_medium_empty

TYPE=T_POTION_EMPTY

SKILLMAKE=TINKERING 21.3,t_tinker_tools

RESOURCES=2 i_ingot_iron

WEIGHT=1

ON=@CLICK

IF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 10)

SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's an empty glass bottle.

ELSE

IF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 30)

SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's a medium sized empty glass bottle.

ELSE

IF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 60)

SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's a medium sized empty glass bottle, used in alchemy. It can be filled with water.

ELSE

IF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 90)

SRC.SYSMESSAGE This is a glass bottle, commonly used for alchemy. Alchemists would mix their reagents and some water inside this bottle to create a potion.

ELSE

RE: Trying to emulate skill advancement and override the original skill (almost) totally. - Gil Amarth - 07-21-2012 07:17 PM

Another possibilty is give to all items a tevent like: e_ItemID_sysmessage
Putting TEVENTS = e_ItemID_sysmessage in the ITEMDEF definition, below TYPE, for example.

And later write a single file [TYPEDEF e_ItemUD_sysmessage], with all the descriptions, much cleaner in my opinion.

[TYPEDEF e_ItemUD_sysmessage]

ON=@DCLICK

IF (<DEFNAME> == i_bottle_medium_empty)
Your code
ELSEIF (<DEFNAME> == i_hammer_smith)
Your code
...
...
..
ENDIF

It´s still a colossal work, but you will have everything in a single file.

RE: Trying to emulate skill advancement and override the original skill (almost) totally. - darksun84 - 07-22-2012 03:13 AM

About the skillgain, there is the function

SKILLGAIN skill, difficulty

Invokes Sphere's skill gain for the specified skill, with the given difficulty (0-100)

I don't know if for difficulty, it means the skill value or the action's difficulty!

RE: Trying to emulate skill advancement and override the original skill (almost) totally. - Skul - 07-22-2012 03:20 AM

Your IF/ELSEIF/ELSE/ENDIF structure is wrong:

Code:

IF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 10)

 SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's an empty glass bottle.

 ELSEIF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 30)

 SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's a medium sized empty glass bottle.

 ELSEIF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 60)

 SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's a medium sized empty glass bottle, used in alchemy. It can be filled with water.

 ELSEIF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 90)

 SRC.SYSMESSAGE This is a glass bottle, commonly used for alchemy. Alchemists would mix their reagents and some water inside this bottle to create a potion.

 ELSE

//?

ENDIF

also, you should compare skill amounts by the tenth of a decimal point

Code:

if (<src.itemid> < 10) //1.0%,

elseif (<src.itemid> < 10.0) //10.0% <-- correct.

elseif (<src.itemid> < 100) //10.0%

endif

SKILLGAIN function was added in a while ago, it works like so:

Code:

skillgain <skill name/key> <difficulty to gain at>

example:

Code:

IF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 10)

 SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's an empty glass bottle.

 SRC.SKILLGAIN itemid 10.0 //skillgain at 10.0%, unless you meant 1.0%?

 ELSEIF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 30)

 SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's a medium sized empty glass bottle.

 SRC.SKILLGAIN itemid 30.0

 ELSEIF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 60)

 SRC.SYSMESSAGE It's a medium sized empty glass bottle, used in alchemy. It can be filled with water.

 SRC.SKILLGAIN itemid 60.0

 ELSEIF (<SRC.ITEMID> < 90)

 SRC.SYSMESSAGE This is a glass bottle, commonly used for alchemy. Alchemists would mix their reagents and some water inside this bottle to create a potion.

 SRC.SKILLGAIN itemid 90.0

 ELSE

 //?

 ENDIF

RE: Trying to emulate skill advancement and override the original skill (almost) totally. - Rayvolution - 07-22-2012 10:38 AM

Thanks, I'll give it a shot and see how it works when I get home. Smile

I knew my statements were all messed up, it was a sloppy job to test the concept. No where near a final product. Although I didn't notice I forgot my ENDIF, whoops!

I didn't realize sphere added a skillgain function, is this new in 56b? I don't remember having it in 55i. Although, I may of just never had a reason to use it.

RE: Trying to emulate skill advancement and override the original skill (almost) totally. - Skul - 07-22-2012 11:10 AM

skillgain is a new function, added during the 56b development.