Yolkfolk Prophecies [PROGRESS THREAD]

"It was a Sunday like any other in the land of Yolkfolk. The children were playing football….jumpers as goalposts of course. The hierarchical women making Sunday lunch, whilst the characters we have all come to love and cherish were all standing round listening to Grand Dizzy.
There he stood upon his soap box, preaching of times once had and stories of old……."

Well guys,
It has been a long ardious task learning scripting from scratch!!! With a lot of intensive tutorial courses and questioning i think the first part of my journey is now over!!!?
I have managed to learn enough for me to start the creation of my first Dizzy adventure.
Although I have taken onboard the basics, I find when implementing new puzzles, there is always something that does not work logistically/logically, so I find myself reverting back to Forums, blah, blah, blah....
Anyway, enough of that boring talk.
I have a basic storyline which needs a bit of improvement before submitting in here and I have created around 25 rooms with nigh on 15 puzzles. The problem being that once i create a puzzle, something else will pop up therefore having to implement something else before that original piece becomes viable!!!
Not sure how to submit screen shots but I have a few that are fully decorated and ready to parade.
Also, on a slightly different note,
As this is probably one of the few passtimes that I actually enjoy, I would like to donate but i believe i read somewhere about paypal....I am not signed up for paypal and to be perfectly honest, I am not sure what it is exactly, neither how to use it :blush: ????

Well, here are my first screen shots.......

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Paypal is the preferred payment method for quite a few major websites including ebay.

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That's because ebay own paypal :wink:

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Well guys,
It has been a long ardious task learning scripting from scratch!!! With a lot of intensive tutorial courses and questioning i think the first part of my journey is now over!!!?
I have managed to learn enough for me to start the creation of my first Dizzy adventure.

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Gotta start somewere!! {dizzy}:cool:

I will eventually get round to both posting screenshots and donating but until that time I certainly am enjoying using Dizzage and creating a game. With the rate I am going, I have set a goal to achieve around 100 rooms...I am hoping this is not slightly too much for a novice to adhere to????
  {yolkfolk}:scratch:

Deflated!!!!

I feel like my 4 year old daughter being sent to the Heads office!!!!
  :blush:

Thanks for the feedback...
I am trying to work 1 puzzle per room with the exception of a couple of cloud jumping rooms and dead ends for the closure of the map.
I am struggling on a code for a puzzle at present though, if anybody can help?

Do certain codes conflict with other codes? I have tried creating a flash of colour to happen between speeches in which a character will also appear directly after the flash happens. Now my problem is, when i change the status of a character from 0 to 1 and use the 'else' function all is well and the code works (this is before i tried entering the flash code and the brush draw code for the character appearance). When I try entering the code to produce the flash and the characters appearance inbetween the speech, although I have changed the status to 1 it will automatically return to the speech I had originally put on to status 0.
I hope this makes some sort of sense and somebody is able to help cos I have had a couple of sleepless nights trying to work it out!!!!!?? :wall:

Ps, Kirkub, you didnt really offend me, I was only joking about my deflation....I just enjoy a challenge and am not only doing this for the community but to better myself with something that i have previously been illiterate at!!! {yolkfolk}:thumb:

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Post the code? :smile:

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Here you go, it is a little diluted!!!!

func ActionObject_3003()//dylan
{
idx = ObjFind(3003); // DYLAN
if(ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS)==0)
{

Message1(14,6,"HELLO, DYLAN!");
MessagePop();
Message2(3,8,"HELLO, DIZZY!");
MessagePop();
idx = BrushFind(10001);//FLASH OF RED LIGHT(DRAW PROPERTY = 0)
BrushSet(idx,B_DRAW,3);//FLASH OF RED LIGHT(NOW VISABLE)
Message0(14,6,"EVIL RED EGG APPEARS");
MessagePop();
idx = BrushFind(10001);//10001 = ID OF RED FLASH OF LIGHT
BrushSet(idx,B_DRAW,0);//FLASH OF RED LIGHT(NOW DISABLED)
idx = BrushFind(3004);//(3004 = EVIL RED EGG, DRAW PROPERTY = 0)
BrushSet(idx,B_DRAW,3);//(NOW DRAWS EVIL RED EGG)

return;

ObjSet(idx,O_STATUS,1); // advance the status of the conversation
return;//
}
else
{
// next time talk
Message1(14,6,"BLAH,BLAH,BLAH!");
MessagePop();
return;
}

}

yes, you're both right. I posted that from my phone last night, after a quick scan through the code!

Here's the same code, modified so that it should work:

func ActionObject_3003()//dylan
{
idx = ObjFind(3003); // DYLAN
if(ObjGet(idx,O_STATUS)==0)
{
Message1(14,6,"HELLO, DYLAN!");
MessagePop();
Message2(3,8,"HELLO, DIZZY!");
MessagePop();

idx = BrushFind(10001); //FLASH OF RED LIGHT(DRAW PROPERTY = 0)
BrushSet(idx,B_DRAW,3); //FLASH OF RED LIGHT(NOW VISABLE)
[color="Red"]GameCommand(CMD_REFRESH);

Message0(14,6,"EVIL RED EGG APPEARS");
MessagePop();

idx = BrushFind(10001); //10001 = ID OF RED FLASH OF LIGHT
BrushSet(idx,B_DRAW,0); //FLASH OF RED LIGHT(NOW DISABLED)
idx = BrushFind(3004); //(3004 = EVIL RED EGG, DRAW PROPERTY = 0)
BrushSet(idx,B_DRAW,3); //(NOW DRAWS EVIL RED EGG)
[color="#ff0000"]GameCommand(CMD_REFRESH);

[color="#ff0000"]idx = ObjFind(3003);
ObjSet(idx,O_STATUS,1); // advance the status of the conversation
return;
}
else
{
// next time talk
Message1(14,6,"BLAH,BLAH,BLAH!");
MessagePop();
}
}

I've highlighted in red the bits that Grandad refers to, and the line that fixes Saleh's problem.

Saleh, every time you want to show a change of property of a STATIC BRUSH, you need to use GameCommand(CMD_REFRESH); to refresh the game so that that change shows up.

Also, the last line wasn't working because you'd re-defined variable IDX as STATIC BRUSH 3004, rather than DYNAMIC OBJECT 3003.

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  {yolkfolk}:yahoo:
All good now thanks Jamie/Grandad.

On a different note, through another ardious task of learning something new......please now see my first screen shots uploaded at the beggining of this thread!!!!!!