Script Troubleshooting

[Lexx]

Here is another one, folks. I need brainstorming.

Trying to add a new script. In the mapper the script appears twice and the script also doesn't work. Obvious conclusion: Something is fucked up.

I can't figure out what exactly. Scripts.lst only has one entry and it has a correct newline at the end. Scrname.msg also is ok, though even if I don't add any entry there, the script appears twice in the mapper.

What is it I have overlooked? I feel like doing this for the very first time ever...


/edit: Ok, whatever that was, I fixed it. Removed all traces of the script, then - instead of the Sfall script editor - I used FSE to register the script. After that everything worked as usual...

 

[Lexx]

Here is something new:

Anyone knows what is causing this? Commented out pretty much everything I could in that script, and yet whenever I switch into barter mode, the above happens. I know that I fixed such a thing already years ago, but... that was years ago.

/Edit: Thanks for the rubber ducking, guys. Fixed it. The proto had barter flag set to no... Ofc it doesn't work then.

 

[Magnus]

There's a bug that makes people speak German? Incredible!

 

[Lexx]

Ok, this one is a question I really can't answer by myself. Question is... Is the following possible?

I want to spawn a text message in the log window *once* when the game is started / you load a savegame. If you load a savegame again, the text message will *not* appear again. BUT if you close the game, start it again, then load a savegame... the text message appears again.

So I would need a variable that starts at 0, will be set to 1 when the game runs / a savegame has been loaded the first time, and then will be set to 0 again when the game gets closed in whatever kind of way.

Possible or not? Come on, sfall scripters.

 

[JimTheDinosaur]

Fairly sure you can't differentiate between regular loads and startups.

 

[JimTheDinosaur]

It'd still help to know why exactly you want to be able to do this, so we can try and help think of possible workarounds. For instance, get_uptime keeps "running" after you exit the game, so could in theory be used to give someone who restarts the game after some period a certain message.

 

[Lexx]

Just a little fluff, nothing super fancy. A kind of "welcome"-message on startup to greet the player.

 

[Magnus]

Just a little fluff, nothing super fancy. A kind of "welcome"-message on startup to greet the player.

Can't be done without using dirty hacks and AllowUnsafeScripting=1, which may be deprecated in the future, so not recommended.

 

[Lexx]

I am not 100% sure right now, but I think AllowUnsafeScripting=1 is required for my mod anyway. /Edit: Or maybe not. Just tried it and some of the important features are all still working.. strange

In any case, as soon as I am using the lates ddraw.dll my sleep menu doesn't work anymore. Therefore, I'll have to use some older version anyway...

 

[JimTheDinosaur]

AllowUnsafeScripting is only needed if you want to add your own functions to sfall (read_byte, etc. you can check the sfall function list doc for more info). You won't need it for any of the existing ones.

 

[Lexx]

I think it was used for editing the worldmap travelscreen. Years ago, a friend helped me to change the Fo2 worldmap interface to the look of the Fo1 worldmap interface. That means, changing it to this:

At some point there came an sfall update and it stopped working, though... Kinda sucks, because I would still love to use that one instead of the Fo2 interface. I simply don't have that many town locations.

/Edit: I think it was done via disabling the scrollbuttons, changing the interface positions and then simply replacing the existing graphics to match the new positions.