what would be a good way to make choice boxes, lol mmf2

Like when you give the player choices that he can select (ie battle command options in final fantasy or simple yes/no things)

I'm trying to think of a way to do it, but I'm not sure. Is there any object that could handle this type of thing?

This post has been edited by Glukom on Oct 6 2009, 04:02 PM

You, uh, you, uh, gonna make Luigifan 4?

Gonna, gonna, make an engine for it?

when the moon's light reflects onto the sun, luigifan 4 will be complete

i promise

Install lights on the moon. Quick!

Spoilers:

it already does

mainly because of what moonlight is

**** i guess that means i gotta finish it by tonight

- not gonna happen

buttons

i dont want mouse usage

blump

well i did make an smrpg battle example in the first post of the mini-tutorials topic if that helps

otherwise



hello

thats a lot of words

Actually though, I think I would be able to do an SMRPG menu screen on my own. Since I'd be using 4 different keys to determine what type of action I'm doing.

What worries me is something like, if I have 4 choices, and the only way to get to each choice is to move up or down. I think I know a way I could do it though, if I were to make the initial value of a variable 4 and have it add or subtract when I move up or down, and just not let it go any higher than 4 or less then 1.


but if there are any easier alternatives, by all means, clue me in

it's all incredibly simple though


just a ****load of variables to manage

Upon pressing "Up Arrow" -->Set MenuOption (GV A): min(MenuOption + 1, 4) Upon pressing "Down Arrow" -->Set MenuOption (GV A): max(MenuOption - 1, 1)

or if you want the selection cursor to wrap:

Upon pressing "Up Arrow" -->Set MenuOption (GV A): ((MenuOption + 1) mod 4) + 1 Upon pressing "Down Arrow" -->Set MenuOption (GV A): ((MenuOption - 1) mod 4) + 1


This post has been edited by Xgoff on Oct 6 2009, 06:47 PM

can you explain this a little

I get the gist of it but there's a few things in it that I don't really know what they mean.

first one:
"min" means it returns the smaller of the two numbers you give to it; what you're doing in this, basically, is adding 1 to MenuOption, comparing it to four, then assigning the final value back into MenuOption. Since you wanted four options, this keeps MenuOption from ever getting higher than 4.

It's similar to doing something like:
MenuOption > 4 --> Set MenuOption: 4

but all in one expression

"max" of course does the opposite, returning the larger value. in this case it keeps MenuOption from getting lower than 1

second one:

"mod" is basically division that returns the remainder instead of the quotient. so doing x mod 4 does this:

1 mod 4 --> 1
2 mod 4 --> 2
3 mod 4 --> 3
4 mod 4 --> 0
5 mod 4 --> 1

and so on. because you want the range from 1 to 4, we have to add 1 to the final result of those equations. part from that, this one works liike the first

EDIT: you should use the first option because the second one tends to be really pissy and the example as provided may not even work correctly

This post has been edited by Xgoff on Oct 6 2009, 07:21 PM

Ah, I've been looking for something that could do that. I wanted to do a similar thing with the health statistic.

What's the "(GV A)"? Is that just the object that MenuOption is in?

Yeah I'll probably just stick with the first, it doesn't need to wrap around.

global value a

or technically whichever one is available for you

Oh, ok. I was thinking Global Value but I just had to be sure

thanks

which reminds me i don't even know why i specify which one it is because i always end up saying "or whatever" anyway